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Congress weighs legislation that would update email privacy laws
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...
Tags: Electronics, American Civil Liberties Union, Google Inc., U.S. Congress, FBI
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Sen. Rand Paul ends marathon filibuster of John Brennan
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul ended a marathon filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA early Thursday after holding the floor for nearly 13 hours, focusing on concerns over the constitutionality of the administration’s use of...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, James Stewart, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, George W. Bush
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Paul filibuster gains support, delays Brennan vote
WASHINGTON -- What began as Rand Paul’s one-man crusade to press the Obama administration for clarity regarding its prosecution of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorist ties became a bipartisan spectacle in the Senate chamber Wednesday -- one that...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, White House, Government, Parties and Movements
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Club for Growth loves Marco; Bill, Debbie, not so much
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelUpdated 1:05 p.m. 2/26/13 to reflect that Posey did not get an award. The staunchly-conservative Club for Growth, a big funder of political campaigns through its affiliated PAC and Super PAC, is out with its 2012 Congressional scoreboard, throwing special... -
Napolitano pushes back against calls for increased border security
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pushed back Wednesday against congressional demands to further boost border security, and said those calls shouldn't delay creating a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants....
Tags: National Security, Labor Legislation, Migration, Washington, DC, Parties and Movements
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COLUMN: Our decadent democracy
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- Connoisseurs of democratic decadence can savor a variety of contemporary dystopias. Because familiarity breeds banality, Greece has become a boring horror. Japan, however, in its second generation of stagnation is fascinating. Once, Japan...Tags: Republican Party, George Will, Personal Income, Finance, The Washington Post
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Watson: Paranoia, fear-mongering still in play
Anyone looking for a sign the Republican Party may have learned a lesson from the election, or that, in the wake of defeat, the influence of tea party extremists may have diminished, or that Republicans might finally be ready to work together with the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Treaties, Rick Santorum, United Nations
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Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty
Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Treaties, Rick Santorum, United Nations, Abortion Issue
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Senate Republicans block U.N. disabilities treaty
This post has been updated, as indicated below.The Senate rejected a United Nations treaty aimed at banning discrimination against individuals with disabilities Tuesday, falling five votes short of the two-thirds needed in a 61-38 vote. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With...Tags: Republican Party, Voting, Treaties, United Nations, Rick Santorum
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GOP may hurt rights for the disabled
WASHINGTON -- President-unelect Rick Santorum made his triumphant return to the Capitol on Monday afternoon and took up a brave new cause: He is opposing disabled people. Specifically, Santorum, joined by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, declared his wish that...
Tags: Republican Party, Treaties, United Nations, Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint
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NSU Project: All-time NSU football rosters
The American News has been and is continuing to work on a project of the history of Northern State football: 1902-2012. The project will be published in its entirety in the Oct. 5 edition of the American News. Here is a preview of the all-time NSU...
Tags: Brooklyn Park, Lockport, Doug Johnson, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Woodridge
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Mack endorsed by Utah’s Mike Lee
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelU.S. Sen. Mike Lee, the tea party-backed Utah Republican who upset three-term incumbent Bob Bennett in 2010, has endorsed U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV in the Republican U.S. Senate primary here. “Having Connie’s voice in the U.S. Senate will...
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