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At new phase in budget fight, Obama reaches out to GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON -- President Obama appears to be trying to thaw chilly relations with lawmakers as he pushed through the latest budget battle while moving on to other parts of his second-term agenda. Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to visit...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Jay Carney, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control
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Letters: Republicans' revenge on Hagel
Re "For Hagel, opposition from GOP is personal," Feb. 15 Despite the fact that a Cabinet nomination has never in history been blocked by a minority filibuster, Republicans are filibustering Chuck Hagel's appointment as secretary of Defense....Tags: Harry Reid, Politics, Chuck Hagel, Republican Party, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Noelle Nikpour: Karl Rove is a loser in many ways
There have been times in years past when I have thought – and even said out loud – that I might someday want to run for office. You know, just toying with the idea. Maybe I never will. If Karl Rove were a Democrat, I guess he might want to...Tags: Karl Rove, Politics, U.S. Senate, Ashley Judd, Republican Party
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Rand Paul filibuster splits GOP, Graham now supports CIA nominee
WASHINGTON – The political fallout from Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster has begun as fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham switched Thursday to support John Brennan as CIA director, saying the vote has become a “referendum” on the...
Tags: Harry Reid, John Brennan, U.S. Senate, Tea Party Movement, Rand Paul
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, Bob Corker, Dan Coats, John Hoeven
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Sen. Rand Paul ends marathon filibuster of John Brennan
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul ended a marathon filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA early Thursday after holding the floor for nearly 13 hours, focusing on concerns over the constitutionality of the administration’s use of...Tags: Harry Reid, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, Bernard Sanders, Rand Paul
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How to close our National Schmoozing Deficit
In my Wednesday column, I wrote that President Obama and most leading members of Congress know what a solution to the fiscal crisis looks like; they just can’t get there from here because they don’t trust one another much. Obama is trying to...Tags: Aspen Institute, Politics, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Congress, Republican Party
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: Mitt Romney, Eric Cantor, Rand Paul, Philosophy, Barack Obama
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made... -
Obama dismisses ‘Jedi mind meld’ to solve sequester
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAs Congress, the president and the nation grapple with the so-called sequester and the possible harrowing effects of billions of ...... -
Saturday's TV Highlights: Mitt and Ann Romney on Fox News Sunday
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES "The Graham Norton Show" Richard Gere, John...
Tags: IFC (tv network), Paul C. Broun, Richard Gere, China, John Malkovich
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Officials optimistic federal government can avert shutdown
WASHINGTON — Signaling a cease-fire of sorts in Washington's bitter budget wars, Republican leaders in Congress and a senior White House official expressed optimism Sunday that they can reach a deal to avoid adding a painful government shutdown this...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Government Debt, Government, NBC (tv network), ABC (tv network)
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