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House Ethics Committee finds no violations in Countrywide VIP probe
WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee has found no rules violations by lawmakers and staffers who used a VIP loan program from Countrywide Financial Corp. saying the allegations of special treatment fell outside the panel's jurisdiction. The...
Tags: Justice System, Darrell E Issa, Values, Ethics, Finance
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Legislators to look at drug shortages
The staff at Anne Arundel Medical Center considered canceling some surgeries on a recent weekend because the hospital was running low on a common drug used to help bring people out from under anesthesia. It is the kind of problem hospitals and doctors...
Tags: Justice System, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Research, Food and Drug Administration
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Lawmakers eye proposals to speed voting
Long lines that caused voters in Maryland and several other states to wait hours at polling places on Election Day are prompting a push for new laws to speed the process of casting a ballot. Lawmakers in Congress and the Maryland General Assembly say...
Tags: Politics, Maryland General Assembly, Elijah E. Cummings, Alex X Mooney, Mitt Romney
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'Fast and Furious' defendant gets prison for buying guns
L.A. NOWThe first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs was sentenced Monday in San Diego federal court to 57 months in prison. Danny Cruz Morones, 24,...... -
Congressional candidate profiles
MEET THE CANDIDATES When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, NATO, Immigration, Alternative Energy, Health and Safety at School
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1st 'Fast and Furious' defendant sentenced
Los Angeles TimesSAN DIEGO - The first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs was sentenced Monday in San Diego federal court to 57 months in prison. Danny Cruz Morones, 24, of Phoenix...Tags: Justice System, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Justice, Prosecution
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Libya reckoning
Day by day, the public is learning more about what happened in the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. There is still much confusion. But last week we gleaned two key points from a State Department briefing and a...
Tags: Politics, Al-Qaeda, Joe Biden, Christopher Stevens, Government
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Benghazi attack: Time for an honest accounting
Despite this season's election-year politics, the Obama administration needs to acknowledge mistakes at the U.S. consulate in Libya, where four Americans were killed last month in an apparent terrorist attack, and to learn from them. That's the only way...
Tags: Politics, Darrell E Issa, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christopher Stevens, Government
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Libya killings: State Department breaks with Administration's movie story
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional Republicansnew fodder for criticizing the Obama administration's...
Tags: Politics, Darrell E Issa, Christopher Stevens, Islam, United Nations
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Tags: Politics, Darrell E Issa, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christopher Stevens, Government
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Cummings launches probe on voter registration challenges
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is requesting that a group whose affiliates have challenged the legitimately of thousands of voter registrations, including some in Maryland, turn over documents to demonstrate how it determines which registrations to target. In a...Tags: Politics, Darrell E Issa, Democratic Party, Elijah E. Cummings, Elections
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Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that disregarded public safety and...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Darrell E Issa, U.S. Department of Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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