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Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
Each day found my jaw hitting the floor as my mouth dropped open again and again. Sometimes it was at good news, sometimes at bad, and sometimes at plain old OMG unbelievable. At long last, after months and months of foot-dragging and obstructionism...
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
Jun 23, 2012 Barack Obama and Mitt Romney appeared before a conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Moody's cut the credit rating of 15 major banks, including Bank of America and Citigroup. And the White...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
Font Resize The Associated Press President Barack Obama, in a strikingly personal appeal, renewed his call for an overhaul of America's immigration laws before a supportive Latino audience Friday. He portrayed rival Mitt Romney as an obstacle to...
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Boston Herald
| 11 months ago
A vote of contempt may not be enough to get to the bottom of Fast and Furious, President Obama's failed attempt to crack down on Mexican drug cartels by letting thousands of weapons walk into Mexico...That was one recommendation made by an enraged...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama pounded Republican challenger Mitt Romney over his past business practices and current immigration views during a swing Friday through the heart of the nation's largest battleground state. At a boisterous campaign rally near...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Coming a week after President Obama announced that he would defer deportation proceedings for many young illegal immigrants, it was safe to predict that he'd get an appreciative response from an audience of Latino leaders...It started with a woman in...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
I'll tackle immigration in 'civil' manner Romney: I'll tackle immigration in 'civil' manner Backing off the harsh rhetoric of the Republican primaries, Mitt Romney pledged Thursday to address illegal immigration "in a civil but resolute manner."
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney addressed the group, Obama sought to telegraph the message that he's the candidate who has the best interests of the Hispanic community a group critical to his reelection at heart. Referring to Romney as your speaker from yesterday, Obama...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
He did not say what should happen to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, nor did he mention the Dream Act, the stalled legislation he previously vowed to veto that would legalize many young people brought to the country...
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Boston Herald
| 11 months ago
Updated 54 seconds ago Text size C ontempt seems to be just about the right word for the dysfunctional relationship between President Obama's administration and Congress. This week, however, the word signaled more than just how the two branches are...
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News Press
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney acknowledged that Hispanics may not always agree with him, but he offered a vision Thursday of an America more welcoming to certain legal immigrants and their families. Speaking to the National...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney softened his tough primary-campaign tone on immigration, if not his positions, during a speech Thursday to national Hispanic leaders. In comments to thousands gathered at the National Association of...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 11 months ago
Friday Jun 22, 2012 A majority of Americans disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. The pessimism hurts his re-election chances as the November election looms, with the poll...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Accusing President Obama of taking Latino voters for granted, Mitt Romney told an influential Latino audience Thursday that he would replace and supersede Obama's new deportation policy for young immigrants but offered no details. One day ahead of...
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New York Observer
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney Addresses Latino Lawmakers, No Mention Of Self-Deportation 1:35pm Gov. Mitt Romney addressed the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, and he made no mention of the immigration buzzword he is perhaps most famous for: self-...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney articulated an immigration policy largely based on economic prosperity during a highly-anticipated speech to Latino officials on Thursday. In an address to a National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in...
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The News & Observer
| 11 months ago
GOP attacking Holder to suppress voters The top House Democrat says a committee vote holding the attorney general in contempt of Congress is part of Republican efforts to suppress votes in the upcoming elections...Court: Use new drug sentencing law...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
With the economy stalled, the unemployment picture gloomy and confidence in a recovery low, the Obama administration needs a distraction from economic ennui. Enter Operation Fast and Furious, the gun walking program meant to trace weapon purchases to...
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Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed by an untraceable assault weapon that was deliberately handed to Mexican drug lords by U.S. officials via Operation Fast and Furious. Ever since, the Terry family and Americans across the nation...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
If he wants to avoid an unprecedented contempt vote before the full House of Representatives , the embattled attorney general must strike a deal with Republicans seeking more documents in an investigation of the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
President Obama 's claim of executive privilege to conceal documents about Operation Fast and Furious has set off a political firestorm. Almost exactly 40 years after the break-in at the Watergate hotel, a claim of executive privilege reminds...
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CNN Blog
| 11 months ago
The Supreme Court may soon rule on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. Once a ruling is issued, CNN.com Live will be there for all the reaction and fallout...Aung San Suu Kyi addresses UK Parliament - Myanmar pro-democracy...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) delivers a much-anticipated address to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials annual conference Thursday afternoon...Romney's speech, which comes on the eve of President Obama'...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney's momentum has stalled since Obama announced his administration would halt deportations of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children, a move Republicans acknowledged as deft since it energized the Hispanic voters the...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
June 21, 2012 President Obama and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney are taking their stump speeches to a prominent group of elected Latino officials this week...The appearances come just a week after the president announced a new...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
The sting ended when an emigration authority employee was killed by one of the weapons. Holder testified before Congress that he was informed of the sting only weeks in advance, but document s have surfaced proving he knew a year in advance.
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Fewer Americans believe the economy is getting better and a majority disapproves of how President Barack Obama is handling it, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Meanwhile, new financial filings reveal that although major donors supporting...
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Salem News
| 11 months ago
Democrats say an eight-month Republican House investigation into the events of 'Fast and Furious'- the deadly gun walking program where ATF provided weapons to Mexican drug cartels, is a political 'witch hunt carried out on an election year'.
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
ments Congressional committee finds Holder in contempt A Republican-dominated House panel found the Attorney General in contempt on a straight party-line vote; the last Cabinet official found in contempt was Janet Reno during Whitewater. By Pete Yost,...
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Politico
| 11 months ago
The Fast and Furious investigation has finally handed House Republicans a prize they've long sought: a legal smackdown of the Obama administration. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was able to show skeptical conservatives that his spine could stay stiff...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued the following statement Wednesday on the committee's approval of a report finding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his refusal to...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Congress contempt charge for US Attorney General Holder The Department of Justice says it has already turned over 7,000 documents to the committee A US House of Representatives committee has voted along party lines to hold Attorney General Eric...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama attends a news conference on the second day of the G20 Summit in Los Cabos June 19, 2012. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, stung by the fundraising success of rival Mitt Romney and groups supporting him, predicted...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted to find Atty...Congress for failing to provide subpoenaed documents in the flawed Fast and Furious gun-tracking case, just hours after President Obama asserted executive privilege and...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The conference call was set up to focus on the economy and knock President Obama's comment that the private sector was "doing fine." But reporters wanted to ask about immigration. Romney aides repeatedly urged reporters to restrict their questions...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Benjamin J Myers/Corbis The Obama administration on Wednesday asserted executive privilege, refusing to provide documents to a committee of the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives about a failed gun-running investigation. The White...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
White House withholds Fast and Furious files US Attorney General Eric Holder could be held in contempt of Congress over Fast and Furious President Obama has taken the rare step of claiming executive privilege to withhold documents sought by lawmakers...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
The Bloomberg National Poll asked likely voters which candidate's argument has been more convincing, as each campaign works to paint its rival as unaware of the plight of the "average American" in an election year dominated by the struggling economy.
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Attorney General Eric Holder delivers a national security speech regarding the Obama administration's ongoing counter terrorism efforts during his visit to the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, March 5, 2012. A Republican-led...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Suddenly, Michigan Looks Like More Fertile Ground to Romney Campaign Richard Perry/The New York Times Mitt Romney held a campaign event on Tuesday at a resort in Michigan, which he now thinks he can take from President Obama, who carried the state in...
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Des Moines Register
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney addresses the crowd gathered at his campaign rally at Le Claire Park in Davenport on Monday. (Justin Hayworth/The Register) An operative with the Republican National Committee is circulating a memo that argues that the GOP has the...
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Taiwan News
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that his campaign is "thoroughly vetting" Marco Rubio as it searches for a running mate despite reports that the popular Cuban-American senator from Florida is not being considered.
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Donna Brazile , a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Russia remains a "geopolitical foe" of the United States, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Tuesday on Fox Radio. "The nation which consistently opposes our actions at the United Nations has been Russia," Romney said. "We're of...
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Miami Herald
| 11 months ago
That didn't sound like news until anonymous Republicans cast doubt on the situation Tuesday, throwing Romney's campaign into a messaging tailspin that took an entire day to clean up. And it was Romney who had to do the mop-up work after ABC, the...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney led the Republican counterattack, accusing President Barack Obama of undermining the possibility of long-term immigration reform by taking the partial step of halting deportations of some young illegal...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
June 19, 2012 June 19, 2012 From now until November, President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will emphasize their differences. But the two men's lives actually coincide in a striking number of ways...Earlier, NPR's David Welna...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
Romney wooing GOP Hill leaders has risks Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is throwing his lot in with his party's leadership in Congress, a break with other recent GOP White House seekers who have kept some distance. Romney and GOP...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
The poll conducted June 13-16 found that 49 percent favored Obama, compared to 41 percent for Romney. That's a gain of three percentage points for Romney from an Elway poll conducted last February...Elway also noted that Obama remained under 50...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
That question arises because the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is touring Michigan Tuesday and Wednesday at the end of his six-state Every Town Counts bus tour. Mr. Romney was born in the Wolverine State, of course, and his father was a...
