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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 10 days ago
Cory Booker, who built a national profile for a hands-on style of leadership as mayor of New Jersey's largest city, entered the race for the state's vacant Senate seat vowing to bring the same energy to change another city: Washington...Where people
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News Source: The New York Times
| 10 days ago
At the announcement, former Senator Bill Bradley, who like Mr. Booker is a Democrat who entered politics as an Ivy League-educated former Rhodes Scholar, introduced the mayor-turned-candidate as the right person for the right office at the right time,
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News Source: Politico
| 10 days ago
Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced his candidacy for the New Jersey Senate seat Saturday, as was widely expected. I'm here today because I know who we are, and what we are capable of, Booker said in a Newark press conference broadcast live online
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News Source: National Public Radio
| 15 days ago
Things You May Not Know About Sen. Frank Lautenberg June 03, 2013 3:50 PM New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg wasn't a regular on the Sunday talk shows. He never ran for president or cut much of a national profile. Still, the liberal Democrat, New
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News Source: SF Gate
| 15 days ago
N.J. (AP) The next time a flight attendant reminds you there's no smoking or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank Lautenberg . The liberal Democratic senator from New Jersey left his mark on the everyday lives of
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News Source: Truthdig
| 15 days ago
Jun 3, 2013 Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat from New Jersey who was the last World War II veteran to serve in the Senate, died early Monday morning after complications stemming from a bout with viral pneumonia...Lautenberg, a solidly liberal voter
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News Source: SF Gate
| 15 days ago
Sen. Frank Lautenberg , the oldest member of the Senate and the last World War II veteran serving there, has died at age 89. His office said that the millionaire New Jersey Republican died shortly after 4 a.m. EDT on Monday at a New York hospital
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News Source: The Washington Times
| 1 month ago
It's not too premature to now say that President Obama's second-term agenda is adrift that is, if he ever had a really well-thought-out agenda to begin with. Little more than four months into his fifth year in office, the prospects of his legislative