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Moms thank Sen. Casey for pro-EPA vote
Call Washington BureauA group of moms promoting issues important to families is airing a TV ad in Pennsylvania to thank U.S. Sen. Bob Casey for his vote to preserve the Environmental Protection Agency's clean air rule that limits emissions of mercury and other air toxics. The...Tags: Asthma, Scranton, Environmental Issues, Ottawa Senators, Environmental Politics
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JPMorgan's Dimon To Go To Washington
ReutersWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jamie Dimon will be playing a new role in Washington this Wednesday, called to explain JPMorgan's recent trading debacle after years of being known as the Wall Street banker who got it right during the financial crisis....Tags: Democratic Party, Federal Reserve, Banking, Companies and Corporations, Richard Shelby
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Neighborhoods crumble as thousands of homes sit in legal limbo, Sun Sentinel finds
Banks that made reckless home loans have been tiptoeing away from foreclosures in a tactic designed to cut their losses. The result: Orphaned, dilapidated homes dot the landscape from Kendall to Lake Worth. There are no owners willing to claim and care...
Tags: Housing Industry, Government, Federal Reserve, Capital Bank Corporation, Bank of New York Company
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Nelson: Cap farm payments to mega-farms
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Tim Johnson of South Dakota are part of a bipartisan group of senators who will seek to cap federal farm payments to large farming operations. The group plans to introduce a measure to...Tags: Tim Johnson, Democratic Party, Chuck Grassley, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ben Nelson
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Cardin, Mikulski urge Obama to speed withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Baltimore SunSens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The Maryland Democrats joined a group of 24 senators in declaring the mission in Afghanistan...Tags: NATO, Herb Kohl, Government, Al-Qaeda, Sheldon Whitehouse
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Xi Jinping confronted on human rights in Capitol Hill meeting
A potentially tense exchange between Republican Sen. John McCain and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday provided a glimpse into the personal political skills of heir apparent to China's presidency. Xi was holding a private meeting with nearly...Tags: Justice and Rights, Democratic Party, China, Politics, Religion and Belief
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'Super PACs' are showing their power
Political committees unfettered by donation limits are dominating the last weeks of the presidential nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, funding aggressive attack campaigns that are swamping the efforts of the candidates themselves. In Ohio,...
Tags: Government, Richard Nixon, Charity, Executive Branch, Ben Nelson
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GOP blocks vote on Richard Cordray to head consumer bureau [Updated]
Money & CompanyRepublicans on Thursday blocked the Senate from voting on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.... -
Bipartisan Agriculture research bill to spur innovation, strengthen American agriculture
Washington, DC – Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator John Thune (R-SD), a Member of the Committee, today introduced a bipartisan bill that will spur new...Tags: Medical Research, Roy Blunt, Michigan State University, Charity, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Proposal to strengthen farm safety net
WASHINGTON - The National Corn Growers Association applauded the bipartisan work of Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), John Thune (R-SD), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Dick Lugar (R-IN) to introduce legislation that will create the Aggregate Risk and Revenue Management...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Congressional Budget Office, Agriculture, Dick Durbin, Laws
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How to retire Dennis Kucinich or Marcy Kaptur: Put both Dems in the same Ohio district
Top of the TicketMarcy Kaptur has 11 House terms; Dennis Kucinich has eight. One of them will retire after 2012.... -
Nelson, 4 other embattled Dems, stake out Medicare position
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Florida Senator Bill Nelson joined with four fellow Democrats on Monday to warn the White House against a Republican budget plan to restructure Medicare as a voucher-like program. Why are they...
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