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Federal workers fret over debt talks
As the president and the speaker of the House intensified their debate over raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling Monday night, the real world impact was reflected among Maryland federal workers like Jacqueline Hamilton. After 44 years of...Tags: Social Issues, Health, Montgomery County (Maryland), Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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Former Gov. Ed Rendell: Why we're wusses.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekIn case you missed it, this ran in The Grown-Up Paper over the weekend. In the final days of December 2010, as he prepared to put a cap on two terms as Pennsylvania's chief executive, then-Gov. Ed Rendell made national...... -
Transportation bill: Do Republicans want to sabotage the economy?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently said aloud what many Americans must be thinking these days — that at least some Republicans in Congress would like to see the U.S. economy worsen in order to boost their chances of success in the November...
Tags: Public Transportation, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Politics
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FACT CHECK: Looming tax hike not the biggest ever
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are calling it "Taxmageddon," the big tax increase awaiting nearly every American family at the end of the year, when a long list of tax cuts is scheduled to expire unless Congress acts. It would be, GOP leaders in...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Personal Income, Research and Development, George W. Bush, Federal Income Tax
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Republicans and Democrats fight over how to extend lower interest rate for students
Daily American Staff WriterWithout congressional action interest rates on a federal student loan program utilized by 7.5 million students in the United States will double July 1. In 2007 Congress passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which reduced the fixed rate...Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Health, Education, Money and Monetary Policy, Democratic Party
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Cantor backs Bolling in 2013 Virginia governor's race
A day after easily winning his Republican primary battle, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia has taken sides in the state's already tense nomination fight for next year's governor's race. Cantor endorsed Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling over tea party...
Tags: Elections, Ken Cuccinelli, George Allen, Primaries, Republican Party
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Low-profile Obama donor has deep pockets
When President Barack Obama comes to Baltimore for a large fundraiser Tuesday at an Inner Harbor hotel, he'll first stop at the home of an Owings Mills developer who has kept a remarkably low profile despite having poured hundreds of thousands of...Tags: Realty, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County
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Nuns start tour protesting Republican positions
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group of Roman Catholic nuns have left Des Moines on a two-week bus tour of nine states to protest Republican federal budget proposals that the group believes hurt the poor and vulnerable. The Nuns on the Bus tour left...Tags: Lobbying, Religion and Belief, Politics, Christianity, Roman Catholicism
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News briefs: North Korea rocket fails test
North Korea admits failure of much-anticipated satellite PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s widely condemned rocket splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff Friday, an embarrassing end to a launch that...
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, North Korea, National Rifle Association of America, Bashar Assad, Rick Snyder
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House Republican leaders agree to extend payroll tax cut
Los Angeles TimesSurrendering to political reality, House Republican leaders did an about-face and said they were willing to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans without insisting that it be paid for with spending cuts. The dramatic shift Monday was...Tags: Employment, Nancy Pelosi, Health, Democratic Party, Medicare
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Giffords resigns House seat to focus on recovery
WASHINGTON (AP)— In a body occasionally known for untoward exits, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood among cheering, crying colleagues to say goodbye Wednesday, over a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin.
Giffords had come to the...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Health, Democratic Party, Washington, DC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Obama to GOP: Game on
Associated PressPresident Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it’s ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for...Tags: Labor Markets, Television Industry, ABC (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, Insider Trading
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