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Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan won't run for reelection in 2014
WASHINGTON -- Michigan Democrat Carl Levin announced Thursday that he would not run for reelection in 2014, adding to an exodus of experience in the chamber. Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the sixth sitting senator to decide...
Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Debbie Stabenow, Frank Lautenberg, Parties and Movements
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Senate confirms Chuck Hagel as new Defense secretary
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran and former Republican senator from Nebraska, as the 24th secretary of Defense after a brutal confirmation process that saw members of his own party question his...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, Ted Cruz, Chuck Hagel, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A filibuster fit for Joe McCarthy
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense ended as it began -- with a smear. "Senator Hagel has accused Israel of quote 'playing games' and committing, quote, 'sickening slaughter,'" Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said before...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamas, John Boehner, John Cornyn, Thomas R. Carper
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Hagel confirmed as secretary of defense
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, who won two Purple Hearts in the Vietnam War, survived the turbulent battle over his nomination to lead the Pentagon, where he will confront two new challenges: potentially dramatic budget cuts and tensions with...Tags: Voting, Tim Johnson, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Susan Rice, Parties and Movements
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State to take significant hit in U.S. budget battle
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The White House says Michigan faces about $140 million in losses if an automatic federal budget cut takes effect Friday, and U.S. Sen. Carl Levin says he's hopeful the deadline pressure will prompt Congress to raise money by...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics
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Rep. Benishek: Hopeful for deal to avoid sequestration funding cuts but skeptical
Staff WriterPETOSKEY, Mich. — Congress is gearing up for another down-to-the-wire budget crisis this week with mandatory $1.2 trillion cuts to governmental spending set to take effect March 1. But, despite being discouraged, second-term Congressman Dan...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Tea Party Movement, Budgets and Budgeting, Debbie Stabenow
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Senate panel approves Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Tuesday's vote broke...
Tags: John Brennan, John McCain, Democratic Party, Libya, Parties and Movements
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Hagel approved by Senate committee in party-line vote
WASHINGTON -- After a sometimes contentious debate, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted on party lines and narrowly approved the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of Defense, moving the bitter fight over President Obama’s...
Tags: Republican Party, John McCain, James Inhofe, Parties and Movements, Bill Nelson
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Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican questioned the former GOP senator's truthfulness...
Tags: John McCain, Democratic Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Parties and Movements, Bill Nelson
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Republicans maintain filibuster threat ahead of Hagel vote
WASHINGTON – On the eve of a Senate committee vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, a group of Republican senators continued Monday to threaten what would be a historic filibuster for a Cabinet appointment despite warnings...Tags: Republican Party, John McCain, Libya, James Inhofe, Parties and Movements
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Hagel hearings: Is Israel more important than Afghanistan?
This post has been corrected, as indicated below. Although they aren’t infallible, “word clouds” -- graphic representations of the frequency with which certain words occur in a text -- can be instructive. Yousef Munayyer of the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lobbying, Lindsey O. Graham, Religion and Belief
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Yemen, Murder, John Brennan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Rights
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