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Senate votes to slow closing of U.S. Postal Service facilities -- could have local impact
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending...
Tags: Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Politics, Finance, Harry Reid
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Lori's views outside the Catholic mainstream
Archbishop William E. Lori writes that religious freedom is under threat in the United States by the exclusion of religious values from public life ("Religious freedom under threat in U.S.," June 16). This is difficult to understand in Maryland where...Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Michael E. Busch, Politics, John Boehner, Civil Rights
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Elizabeth Paul: Our Democratic office holders have fought for Washington County
As I read the June 6 letter to the editor by the Washington County Republican Central Committee, I was surprised by their promising new position on tax dollars. In the column, the local Republican party leaders clearly acknowledge the importance of...Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama
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Senate committee taking up VA claims backlog
WASHINGTONWASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a 10-point plan this week to address the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski said Tuesday. “When our veterans return from war,...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Politics, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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U.S. senators seek review of spending in Honduras
MEXICO CITY -- Alarmed by what they call troubling reports of human rights atrocities in Honduras, 21 U.S. senators are calling on the Obama administration to review how U.S. money is being spent in support of possibly abusive security forces. In a...
Tags: Human Rights, Politics, Honduras, Freedom of the Press, Civil Rights
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Espionage and Intelligence, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Politics
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Privacy advocates outraged, but lawmakers defend collection of phone records
Privacy advocates expressed outrage Thursday over revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting telephone records of virtually every phone call made in the United States for seven years, but the Obama administration and a bipartisan...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Computer Networking and Internet, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Electronics, National Security
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Obama needs to start sweating the small stuff
President Barack Obama likes doing the big things. This is, after all, the man who claimed that his victorious 2008 campaign was "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." He was roundly (and rightly) derided...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Parties and Movements
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Sugar subsidies hurt the baking industry
As one of the owners of H&S Bakery, which employs hundreds of Marylanders, I was disappointed that your May 21 article, "Policy pits candy against sugar," did not mention how the federal sugar subsidy program negatively affects bakeries in our state....
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Productivity, U.S. Senate
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Md. pols flock to White House for Ravens
When Rep. Chris Van Hollen struck up a conversation recently with a U.S. Capitol Police officer he sees every day on his way to work, he immediately learned two things about the man: He's from Baltimore and he's a huge Ravens fan. And so the Montgomery...
Tags: Super Bowl, Joe Flacco, Elijah E. Cummings, Benjamin L. Cardin, Ed Reed
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Letters to the Editor - June 6
Elected Democrats put regional airport at risk To the editor: The Washington County Republican Central Committee applauds the excellent work of the current County Commissioners, who are focused on leveraging Hagerstown Regional Airport to stimulate...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Republican Party, Personal Income, Politics
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VA looks to American Legion, other veterans groups for help with backlog
As officials at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs look internally for solutions to a claims backlog that is drawing increasing fire from Capitol Hill, they are also reaching for outside help from some of the nation's best-known veterans groups....
Tags: American Legion, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Government, Politics, Electronics
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