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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Bob Menendez, Lisa Murkowski, Sherrod Brown, Claire McCaskill
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Battle-tested for a fight
WASHINGTON -- In Vietnam in 1968, two separate mine explosions left Chuck Hagel with shrapnel in his chest and burns on his face and arms. This is not a man who is going to shrink from a fight with the chicken hawks of the Senate. President Obama...
Tags: Washington Monument, John Cornyn, Elections, Politics, George W. Bush
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Petraeus' affair doesn't meet textbook definition of 'scandal'
Five years ago, when I covered David Petraeus' triumphant visit to Capitol Hill after he salvaged the war effort in Iraq, I likened the reception he received to that of conquering generals of Rome, who were feted with laurels, purple robes, trumpets and...Tags: Mayflower Voyage (1620), Central Intelligence Agency, Mark Foley, Christopher J. Lee, David Petraeus
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Vitter, Young Push for Ability to Fire Entergy
He wasn't shy about criticizing Entergy's response after Hurricane Isaac and now, Jefferson Parish President John Young is taking his outrage a step further. He's pushing to allow communities to essentially "fire" utility companies like Entergy. ...
Tags: Entergy New Orleans Incorporated, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Entergy Corporation, Drue Vitter
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Senate committee approves tougher chemical reporting bill
WASHINGTON — Chemical companies would need to provide more health and safety information about their products and regulators would have more authority to force harmful substances off the market under legislation approved along party lines...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Environmental Defense Fund, Medical Procedures and Tests, Economy, Business and Finance, Elections
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Delicate D.C. dance in Secret Service sex scandal
WASHINGTON (AP)— The widening Secret Service prostitution scandal has touched off a delicate dance in Washington. People are loath to criticize an agency whose employees are trained to take a bullet for the people they protect. Members of Congress...
Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Secret Service, Elections, Laura Ingraham, Politics
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GOP blocks vote on Richard Cordray to head consumer bureau [Updated]
Money & CompanyRepublicans on Thursday blocked the Senate from voting on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.... -
Health and defense lobby groups ready for super fight
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With as much as $1.5 trillion in federal funds hanging in the balance, the mammoth healthcare and defense industries are scrambling to lobby a special congressional committee tasked with slashing the deficit -- but in markedly...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Aerospace Manufacturing, Elections, Politics, Lobbying
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This is a Good Reason Why We Shouldn't Drug-Test People on Welfare
The Republicans have recently been on a production marathon of awful ideas, from making college students pay interest on federal loans while in school to reducing Medicare to a coupon for private insurance to trying to get anybody but Mitt Romney to run...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Medical Procedures and Tests, Regional Authority, Tea Party Movement, File Sharing
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'The Big Uneasy' taps into outrage over flooding of New Orleans
Harry Shearer says his "head exploded" 20 months ago. That's when he heard President Barack Obama, during a town hall meeting in New Orleans, refer to the flooding of the city after Hurricane Katrina as "a natural disaster."
The comedian, actor, radio...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Elections, HBO (tv network), Politics, Meteorological Disasters
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Men behaving badly: Same sad story, once again
Let's roll out the list. It includes, in no particular order of sluttishness: Kwame Kilpatrick; Jesse Jackson; James McGreevey; Ted Haggard; Gary Condit; Mark Sanford; John Edwards; Bill Clinton; Newt Gingrich; Rudy Giuliani; Eliot Spitzer; Antonio...Tags: Testosterone, Eliot Spitzer, Kwame Kilpatrick, Constitutional Issues, Gary Condit
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Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature
It didn't start with Twitter — and it won't end with Weiner.
For centuries, the theme of sexual sins committed by the powerful has been scintillating source material for the arts. In poems and plays, in novels and films and TV series, artists...Tags: Alan Alda, Lost (tv program), Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Television, Crimes
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