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No deal: Last-ditch meeting yields no new plan to avoid cuts
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and congressional leaders huddled in the Oval Office on Friday morning but the last-ditch effort failed to produce a compromise to forestall $85 billion in automatic spending cuts all sides say they want to avoid. The...Tags: White House, John Boehner, Government Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress
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Healthcare an obstacle as Republicans court Latinos
WASHINGTON — As Republican leaders try to woo Latino voters with a new openness to legal status for the nation's illegal immigrants, the party remains at odds with America's fastest-growing ethnic community on another key issue: healthcare....Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Medicaid, Laws, Washington, DC, Judges
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...Tags: Ashley Judd, Rand Paul, Vice (movie), Elections, Republican Party
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Marilyn Monroe, Ashley Judd, George Clooney
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Ashley Judd says she's not running for Senate after all
Ashley Judd announced Wednesday that she would not be running for Senate next year against Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). "After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities & energy at this time need to be...Tags: Breaking Bad (tv program), Ashley Judd, Aaron Eckhart, Bryan Cranston, Social Media
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Ashley Judd says no to Kentucky Senate bid
WASHINGTON -- Ashley Judd put an end to speculation about a potential turn from acting to politics Wednesday, announcing that she would not challenge Mitch McConnell for his Senate seat in 2014. In a series of Twitter messages, Judd thanked her would-...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Ashley Judd, Elections, Media Industry, Republican Party
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Actress Ashley Judd announces she will not run for U.S. Senate seat in 2014
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Actress Ashley Judd says she won't run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Judd made the announcement in a Twitter message late Wednesday afternoon. Judd had hinted last week that she was...
Tags: Ashley Judd, Elections, Steve Beshear, Politics, U.S. Senate
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One date is not enough: Obama to dine again with GOP senators
WASHINGTON – President Obama is taking Senate Republicans on another date night. Following his successful dinner earlier this month with a dozen GOP senators, during which they discussed budgets, the president has dialed up his ideological...Tags: Johnny Isakson, White House, Washington, DC, Budgets and Budgeting, Republican Party
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Elk heads made this month's Moutza easy
Is it possible that a husband and wife could win the coveted February Moutza of the Month award, for buying stupid stuffed elk heads with other people's money? Perhaps. Because in America, it is said, even dead elk dreams may come true. Or what...
Tags: Batman (fictional character), Skyfall (movie), Black History, Karl Rove, African-American History Month
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Obama summons congressional leaders to White House
WASHINGTON – President Obama plans to convene a meeting with the top leaders in Congress on Friday at the White House, congressional aides confirmed. The president’s confab with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority...
Tags: White House, Elections, Harry Reid, Republican Party, John Boehner
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The stupid sequester -- and you
Tired of the sequester yet? The automatic cuts to federal spending don’t start until Friday, and even then their effects will only be gradual. But Washington is already in a frenzy over a crisis that the two parties have brought on themselves with...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Harry S. Truman, Elections, Republican Party, Politics
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Wrong to blame GOP for showdown
What a joke your editorial regarding pending federal budget cuts is ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Do you not research information anymore, or do you just call up some liberal Democrats for advice? Maybe you're just blind and believe anything that...Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011
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