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Ashley Judd to Run for Senate in 2014?
• Ashley Judd may run for senate in 2014• Politicians in Kentucky see the actress and activist as a solid choice to challenge Senator Mitch McConnell next election cycle • Judd said, "I do receive a lot of encouragement to run...And my...
Tags: Scott P. Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Ashley Judd, Elections, Politics
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Manhattan (New York City), Michael Bloomberg, Bonds
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Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he’ll seek further changes to Senate rules...Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Washington, DC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Gays and Lesbians, Marco Rubio
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Senate panel passes immigration bill; Obama praises move
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate next month in the full Senate over the biggest changes in immigration policy in a generation....Tags: Minority Groups, Ted Cruz, Washington, DC, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Gays and Lesbians
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Leading senator to let sanctions bill lapse to reward Myanmar government for reforms
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress...Tags: Prisons, U.S. Senate, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Thein Sein, Washington, DC
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AP CEO calls government seizure of phone records 'unconstitutional,' says chill already felt
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed...Tags: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Crime, Law and Justice, National Government
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...
Tags: Lawyers, Gays and Lesbians, Voting, Tea Party Movement, Mark Pryor
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Corporate Officers, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...Tags: U.S. Senate, Rand Paul, Tea Party Movement, Mike Huckabee, Crime, Law and Justice
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: NBC (tv network), ABC (tv network), Taxation, Washington, DC, Rand Paul
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White House accuses Republicans of 'fishing expeditions'
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday accused Republicans of conducting political "fishing expeditions," while Republican lawmakers showed no let up in attacking President Barack Obama's...Tags: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, This Week (tv program), Fox News Channel (tv network), Lifestyle and Leisure
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