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Hagel to stress opposition to a nuclear Iran in Senate testimony
WASHINGTON -- President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel, will stress at his confirmation hearing Thursday that he opposes letting Iran acquire nuclear weapons and will focus on developing military options to set...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, John Kerry, Wars and Interventions
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GOP lawmakers see automatic cuts as leverage
WASHINGTON (AP) — Driven by frustration over deficits and debt, Republican conservatives are pushing a politically risky move to permit painfully large automatic spending cuts to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs alike in an effort to...
Tags: Harry Reid, Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors
Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide...
Tags: Darrell E Issa, Prisons, FBI, Suicide, Los Angeles Times
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What to expect in 2013
A year ago, we predicted President Barack Obama would edge Mitt Romney 48-47 with 286 electoral votes, plus we'd get a Democratic Senate and Republican House; the numbers were a bit off, but who's counting? So plunging past the fiscal cliff, let's...Tags: Kay Bailey Hutchison, World Series, National Basketball Association, Government, Barack Obama
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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: Mitch McConnell, Washington Monument, Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions
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Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, Saudi Arabia, David Petraeus, John Kerry
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After victory, reality
The elections did little to wipe away the deep challenges and frictions facing the nation, and if there was a morning-after metaphor that crystallized that reality it might have been this: Chicago awoke Wednesday to a pair of economic jolts, one...
Tags: Republican Party, Gays and Lesbians, John Boehner, John Kerry, Small Businesses
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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: Harry Reid, Regional Authority, Republican Party, Amy Klobuchar, Hillary Clinton
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Sen. Jerry Moran elected to GOP leadership post
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsU.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) has been elected Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The NRSC's goal is to elect Republicans to the United States Senate. "I would like to express gratitude to my colleagues for giving me the...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Bob Dole, Parties and Movements, Politics
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GOP Must Act With Resolve, Not Recriminations
The Hartford CourantYou probably hold the same beliefs on matters large and small that you did a week ago, notwithstanding Tuesday's election. So do the hundreds of candidates elected to serve in Washington, only more so. Navigating through other people's convictions will be...Tags: Republican Party, John Boehner, Ronald Reagan, Parties and Movements, Bill Clinton
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Tags: Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Joe Walsh, Parties and Movements, Government
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Todd Akin stays in the race
KIAHIt looks like Todd Akin, Missouri`s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, is too legit to quit. The 5 p.m. deadline for Akin to pull out of the race without having to ask permission from the court, permission Democrats will gladly oppose. And all of this...Tags: Republican Party, Todd Akin, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Karl Rove
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Oct 24, 2012
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