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Former Sen. Lugar to be knighted by the British
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Richard Lugar is being knighted on orders from the Queen of England, joining a select list of Americans to receive the distinction. The Indiana Republican, who this year left the Senate after serving 36 years, will...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, U.S. Congress, Joe Donnelly, Elizabeth II, University of Oxford
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Chuck Hagel survives
After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...
Tags: Joe Biden, Republican Party, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Defense
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Pence, Bosma intraparty tax battle boils over
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republicans typically invoke Ronald Reagan's "11th Commandment" when they're fighting within the family, and there's been plenty of infighting recently over Gov. Mike Pence's tax cut at the Statehouse. Reagan made famous the...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Richard Mourdock, Personal Income, Ronald Reagan
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Slip-up may have cost Pence his tax cut
Chances of Gov. Mike Pence winning legislative approval of his signature 10 percent income tax cut began to slip away last Oct. 23. Pence didn't know it at the time. Nobody knew it at the time. The Republican nominee was regarded then as a sure winner...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Finance, Richard Mourdock, Personal Income
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Lugar still speaking his own mind
Politicians on the Far Right, seeking to turn the Republican Party into an uncompromising, unquestioning cause in their own image, sought to silence Dick Lugar's voice of moderation, promising that Indiana still would send a Republican to the Senate....
Tags: Harry Reid, Republican Party, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Barack Obama
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Mourdock not ruling out another run for office
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock says he hasn't ruled out another run for political office — something he said he considered after his loss for a U.S. Senate seat. Mourdock, a Republican, lost to Democrat Joe...
Tags: Republican Party, Elections, U.S. Senate, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...Tags: Joe Biden, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements
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Donnelly joins Senate agriculture, military panels
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Newly elected U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly will serve on the Senate's agriculture and military panels. Donnelly announced Wednesday he will serve on the Agriculture and Armed Service committees in addition to the Senate Aging...
Tags: Elections, Joe Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Joe Donnelly, Politics
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Lugar: Political partisanship 'out of control'
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar used his first public speech since leaving office in January to warn that political partisanship "is out of control" in the U.S. Lugar also said during Tuesday's speech at Duke University that...
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Donnelly wants Zody to lead Democrats
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly asked veteran Capitol Hill staffer John Zody this week to run the Indiana Democratic Party, but his appointment hinges on approval of the party's state central committee. A Democratic official close to...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Richard Mourdock, Barack Obama, Executive Branch
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: POLITICO LLC, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate
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A primer for the 113th Congress
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – With the “fiscal cliff” averted despite the failure to solve key budget issues, the 112th Congress will close out its widely criticized term and the 113th Congress will be sworn in Thursday. The outgoing Congress was...Tags: Joe Biden, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Gun Control
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