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News Source: Truthdig
| 3 days ago
May 16, 2013 Having served in Congress for more than three decadesand in the upper chamber since 1996Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate's more serious and diligent members. Over the years on Capitol Hill, he
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 4 days ago
Senate confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of William Orrick III , a former top immigration lawyer in President Obama's Justice Department , to the federal court in San Francisco...Three Republicans, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine
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News Source: USA Today
| 7 days ago
President Obama should apologize for the admission by the IRS that it singled out conservative Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny as they applied for nonprofit status, Republican members of Congress said Sunday...Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said
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News Source: National Public Radio
| 9 days ago
Other bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill may be collapsing around them, but a cadre of Democratic and Republican women serving on the Senate and House Armed Services committees are leveraging their historic clout to respond together to the sexual
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News Source: Miami Herald
| 9 days ago
The old Hmong veterans stood at ragged attention, in a cemetery whose soil is still closed to them. Many lifetimes ago, in the Vietnam War, they had fought alongside U.S. forces. Now, they are grandfathers, resettled refugees living in places like
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News Source: The New York Times
| 10 days ago
More than a dozen members of Congress, mostly women from the Senate and House armed services committees, met with Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, and other administration officials, including Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a White House
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News Source: Associated Press
| 10 days ago
A bipartisan group of senators wants to ban car rental companies from renting or selling vehicles to consumers that are under manufacturer recall until the defect is fixed. Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski joined Democrats Chuck Schumer of New York,
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News Source: SF Gate
| 13 days ago
Kelly Ayotte , Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive the rejected effort to expand background checks to more firearms buyers. With Congress back from a weeklong recess, the bottom line