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Animal House
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday night, senators took a break from the hard work of rescuing the nation's finances. They summoned Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg, ordered in popcorn, and watched the movie "Lincoln." After Thursday night's debacle in the...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Politics, Tim Huelskamp, U.S. Senate, John Boehner
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House to vote on debt limit increase
WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled House will vote next week to permit the government to borrow more money to meet its obligations, a move aimed at heading off a market-rattling confrontation with President Barack Obama over the so-called debt limit....Tags: Labor Legislation, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress
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House Republicans call off vote on 'Plan B' fiscal cliff plan
WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders abruptly called off a vote Thursday night on their "Plan B” tax proposal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, which ran into stiff resistance from the party's right flank. A tight vote on a preliminary...
Tags: Holidays, Court Preliminary, Plan B (drug), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Parties and Movements
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Boehner on averting fiscal cliff: 'God only knows'
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner signaled on Friday he's still open to negotiations with President Barack Obama on avoiding across-the-board tax increases set to hit taxpayers Jan. 1, but sounded pessimistic about reaching a grand deal...
Tags: Plan B (drug), Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, Politics
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Sharp words ahead of 'Plan B' tax vote
WASHINGTON – As the House prepared to vote Thursday on Speaker John A. Boehner’s tax plan, party leaders blamed each other for the stalemate as little progress is made to prevent falling off the “fiscal cliff,” the automatic tax...
Tags: Plan B (drug), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Parties and Movements, Politics, Daniel Inouye
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Goodlatte elected as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
Congressman Bob Goodlatte has been elected to serve as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Goodlatte was elected to the post by the House Republican Conference. His chairmanship will start in January when the 113th Congress begins. “I...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Politics, Justice System, Immigration, Mark D. Obenshain
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The GOP's negotiating strategy
Rep. Eric Cantor, the number two Republican in the Congress, has now joined his leader, House Speaker John Boehner, in calling for President Barack Obama's health reform law to be put on the table in the debate over how to avoid the fiscal cliff....Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Pikesville, Parties and Movements, Congressional Budget Office, Petroleum Industry
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Democrats face problem of ages
President Barack Obama’s re-election means that, for the next four years, the face of the Democratic Party will be its vigorous 51-year-old president. Beyond Obama, however, the party has an increasingly geriatric leadership that is blocking...Tags: Mitt Romney, Chris Christie, Politics, Government, Andrew Cuomo
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Republicans to Grover Norquist: We're just not that into you
Was the big loser of this month's election Grover Norquist? It's starting to look that way, as an increasing number of Republicans in the House and Senate are announcing that they could be willing to violate the pledges they signed at the behest of the...Tags: Parties and Movements, Saxby Chambliss, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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Tuesday Morning Coffee: Live from Bellefonte.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're coming to you to the annex of the Centre County courthouse this morning. In just a little bit, the sentencing hearing for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is scheduled to get...... -
Cantor backs Bolling in 2013 Virginia governor's race
A day after easily winning his Republican primary battle, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia has taken sides in the state's already tense nomination fight for next year's governor's race. Cantor endorsed Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling over tea party...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Executive Branch, Politics, George Allen, Primaries
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State Fiscal Crisis Needs Sex Appeal
The Hartford CourantWe have some kind of looming fiscal crisis here in Connecticut, but I don't know much about it because a) it is not a cliff and b) it is not as interesting as other things I could conceivably know about. On the first point, I blame whoever started...Tags: Ben Barnes, FBI, Jill Kelley, Tampa, The New York Times
Dec 24, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 18, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Dec 20, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 21, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Dec 20, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 28, 2012
|Story| WDBJ7
Nov 28, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 22, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Nov 27, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 9, 2012
| Allentown Morning Call
Jun 13, 2012
|Story| AP Broadcast
Nov 16, 2012
|Column| Hartford Courant
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