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Gov. Christie eats doughnut with Letterman; talks Sandy storm aid
Fresh from being the big man on late night television, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday focused his ire on the National Flood Insurance Program and its slow rate of resolving claims from Superstorm Sandy. Christie, a potential GOP...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Government, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Insurance
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Should worst-flooded areas be left after Sandy?
SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) — Superstorm Sandy, one of the nation's costliest natural disasters, is giving new urgency to an age-old debate about whether areas repeatedly damaged by storms should be rebuilt, or whether it might be cheaper in the long...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Rivers, Floods, Staten Island (New York City)
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House approves $50.5 billion for Superstorm Sandy aid
More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.5 billion in emergency relief for the victims Tuesday night as Republican leaders struggled to close out an episode that exposed...
Tags: Government, Natural Disasters, FEMA, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements
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Congress' popularity reaches new low
How low can Congress go? Well, lower than a cockroach. Really. A nationwide poll last week conducted by Public Policy Polling found Americans had a higher opinion of cockroaches than of Congress. But the roaches had to scurry. They were more popular than...
Tags: Washington, DC, Gonorrhea , Colonoscopy, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Demographics
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Chris Christie rips NRA's anti-Obama ad; Rand Paul rips Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose political hug of President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy raised Republican hackles, has now criticized the National Rifle Assn. for the group's anti-gun control ad that referenced the president's two daughters....
Tags: Rand Paul, Interior Policy, Government, Regional Authority, Executive Branch
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Jerry Brown -- for president
Is it too soon to talk about the 2016 presidential election? Because I have the perfect candidate for the Democrats. Jerry Brown. That’s right. Our governor. Forget that Gov. Moonbeam nonsense. He’s now the Sage of Sacramento. OK,...
Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Ronald Reagan, Democratic Party
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Biden says White House exploring executive actions on guns
WASHINGTON -- As he began a final series of meetings with stakeholder groups to develop recommendations on gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden signaled Wednesday that one focus may be on measures the Obama administration can take independently of...
Tags: Interior Policy, Government, Gun Control, Democratic Party, MSNBC (tv network)
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States making moves on gun control
WASHINGTON - America has been here time and time again. After Columbine. After Virginia Tech. After Tucson. In the last three decades, the nation has grieved over more than 60 mass shootings. But something changed after the massacre last month at...Tags: Interior Policy, Martin O'Malley, Government, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Gun Control
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Propose a 'Sandy tax'
Gov. Chris Christie established his political credentials as promoting self sufficiency. He fought Democratic principles that government should help all in need and argued for smaller and less federal government. When Mitt Romney said he would...Tags: Republican Party, Mitt Romney, FEMA, U.S. Congress
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States making moves on gun control
WASHINGTON — America has been here time and time again. After Columbine. After Virginia Tech. After Tucson. In the last three decades, the nation has grieved over more than 60 mass shootings. But something changed after the massacre last...Tags: Interior Policy, Government, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Gun Control, Assault
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Still recovering from Sandy, Crisfield braces for next storm
— Hazel Cropper, for years the fastest crab picker in this city built on its seafood industry, worries about the storm drain a few feet from her living room. As volunteers assessed the damage Superstorm Sandy caused to her home, the 74-year-old...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Ocean City, Aquaculture, Insurance, Natural Disasters
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House approves $9.7 billion in Sandy disaster aid
WASHINGTON — Responding to the political storm over delays in disaster aid to the Northeast, the House on Friday approved a $9.7-billion flood insurance bill, the first segment of a possible $60-billion Superstorm Sandy recovery package. The...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Insurance, Bill Pascrell Jr., Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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