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Democrats face challenging Senate landscape
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now face a challenging terrain as they look to hold onto their Senate majority in 2014 and prevent Republicans from gaining full control of Congress during President...Tags: William Cassidy, Tea Party Movement, Mark Begich, White House, Steve King
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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: Dan Coats, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, John McCain, Lindsey O. Graham
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Missed chance to fix the filibuster
The best chance to get the U.S. Senate to do its job is not to withhold pay (although withholding campaign contributions might have done the trick) but to reform the Senate rules so that filibusters aren't used so routinely to gum up the works. Majority...Tags: Harry Reid, Public Finance, U.S. Senate, Politics, Tom Udall
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Sunday morning: Sen. Ted Cruz on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Sen. Angus King on ‘Meet the Press’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be the most popular guest Sunday morning. The Kentucky Republican will visit NBC's “Meet the Press,” CBS' “Face the Nation” and ABC's “This Week.” But the Sunday morning... -
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: Tea Party Movement, Politics, Rand Paul, John McCain, Lindsey O. Graham
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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: Budgets and Budgeting, Dan Coats, Lindsey O. Graham, Tom Coburn, Patrick J. Toomey
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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: Dick Durbin, Murder, George W. Bush, Rand Paul, National Government
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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, Joe Biden, U.S. Congress, Politics, Fiscal Cliff
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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: Rand Paul, Mitt Romney, Ayn Rand, Michele Bachmann, Eric Cantor
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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: News Media, Dick Durbin, China, Scott P. Brown, Ann Romney
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