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Nebraska lawmakers push toward session's end
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 15 minutes ago
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Neb. (AP) Nebraska lawmakers are forging ahead slowly this year with the state budget, a new school funding formula, and an overhaul of juvenile services, but some of the most contentious priorities will likely have to wait. With three weeks left in
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Boxer, Vitter spar on McCarthy
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
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Twenty-four hours after heaping praise on each other after they shepherded a major water infrastructure bill through the Senate, Sens. Barbara Boxer and David Vitter clashed during a committee vote on Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee
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LETTER: Defeat cowardice in next election
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 9 days ago
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Defeat cowardice in next election Posted May 10, 2013 at 12:01 a.m. Jim Rold, Evansville After recently reading President John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, I was struck by the complete lack of courage in the vote by all but four Republican and a
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Sen. Harry Reid calls out Tea Party darling Ted Cruz as 'schoolyard bully'
The Tea Party freshman senator from Texas, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has wasted no time in pushing the envelope with Democrats and his own party to make a name for himself, but he might not like the name he ends up with, since the word “bully&
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Letter From Washington: Honoring an Advocate of Gun Limits
Tucson :: AZ :: USA | 14 days ago
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Gabrielle Giffords was scheduled to receive a Profile in Courage award Sunday at the John F...The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling book...
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Shelly: The GOP strategy
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 14 days ago
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It's no wonder Americans are so cynical about our political system. U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who broke ranks with the GOP and joined with Democrat Joe Manchin in sponsoring a bill demanding universal background checks for gun purchases, had
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Gun control supporters launch frenzied campaign to revive bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 16 days ago
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They see a glimmer of hope, pointing to the plummeting poll numbers of lawmakers who opposed the bill and the anger expressed at Sen. Kelly Ayotte's (R-N.H.) recent town-hall meetings, where she was challenged on her "no" vote. The Senate's move to
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Joe Scarborough Lashes Out At Ted Cruz: 'He Is Lying About His Own Party'
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 19 days ago
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During a rally at the conservative group FreedomWorks last week, the freshman senator Cruz provided a rare glimpse into the Senate vote-whipping process and revealed that fellow GOP senators berated him and Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-
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Ted Cruz explains how just the threat of filibuster stopped gun control
Toronto :: Canada | 20 days ago
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Putting it bluntly, constitutionalists are sick and tired of watching their supposed allies capitulate on the very ideals they're being sent to Washington to defend...Ted Cruz spoke recently at the Freedomworks Texas Summit, where he outlined the
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When will Obama reform government?
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 20 days ago
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He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America." (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is having a tough time...Despite strong public support for tighter regulations and the backing of a bipartisan coalition, a furious blitz from gun lobby
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