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Leading conservative says Obama will win tax fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks after President Barack Obama won re-election and gained more leverage to make GOP conservatives bend on taxes, the new balance of power is proving vexing for both sides. Republicans still aren't budging on Obama'...
Tags: Democratic Party, Government Health Care, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Ben Bernanke
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'Fiscal cliff' deal approved, avoiding tax increases, spending cuts
A bipartisan plan to avoid federal spending reductions and tax increases that would hit Maryland especially hard won final approval Tuesday night in the House of Representatives even as outside groups warned that the bill would simply delay difficult...
Tags: Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Budgets and Budgeting, Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland), John Boehner
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Weekend TV Talk: Dianne Feinstein; John McCain; Richard Durbin
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 16 - 22 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America Coverage of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Situation Room With Wolf...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Peter Orszag, David Brooks, John McCain, Michael V. Hayden
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For former members, life after Congress
Connie Morella served as an ambassador in Paris. Helen Bentley became a consultant to the port of Baltimore. Wayne Gilchrest opened an environmental education center on the Eastern Shore. Former members of Congress from Maryland, they rebounded from...
Tags: Democratic Party, Justice System, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, U.S. Congress
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Chris Van Hollen is no friend of Israel
As Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen Jr. eyes a run for the U.S. Senate in 2014, readers deserve to know the truth about his record on Israel and Iran. Some readers seem to believe that democracy ends on Election Day, and that afterward citizens give up...Tags: U.S. Senate, Council on American-Islamic Relations, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Election is over, but 'super PACs' remain a threat
Just as the devil's finest trick is persuading you that he doesn't exist (according to the poet Baudelaire), the best trick of big-money political donors may be persuading Americans that Citizens United doesn't matter. Citizens United, of course, is the...
Tags: Democratic Party, Mitt Romney, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, White House
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Van Hollen not a true friend to Israel
During his campaign for re-election, Rep. Chris Van Hollen from Maryland's 8th District claimed that he was a "friend of Israel." He even took out a full-page ad in the Washington Jewish Weekly just a few days before the Nov. 6 election claiming that he...Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamas, Elections, Weaponry
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Van Hollen is a staunch friend of Israel
I was disturbed by a recent letter to the editor questioning Rep. Chris Van Hollen's support for Israel ("Van Hollen is not a true friend to Israel," Nov. 28). I am a Jewish constituent of the congressman who has followed his career for many years. Mr....Tags: Hamas, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Elections, Religion and Belief, Judaism
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Van Hollen formally seeks to retain Budget role
WASHINGTON -- Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, locked out of pursuing a higher leadership role in this Congress, formally requested another term as the top-ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee in a letter to his colleagues Tuesday. Van Hollen,...Tags: Barack Obama, James E Clyburn, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Joe Biden, Budgets and Budgeting
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Mikulski to lead Senate Appropriations Committee
In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Baltimore native and Maryland Democrat, who had...
Tags: Justice System, Daniel Inouye, Richard Shelby, Patrick Leahy, National Government
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Gross' health 'deteriorating;' wife pleads with Cuba, U.S. for release
As Alan Gross neared his third anniversary behind bars in Cuba, his wife gave new details of his deteriorating health and issued an impassioned plea to officials in Washington and Havana to negotiate his release immediately. Judy Gross, who visited her...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Cuba, Litigation, Justice System, Havana (Cuba)
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Weekend TV Talk Shows: Timothy F. Geithner; Grover Norquist; Dianne Feinstein
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Chris Matthews Show "Fiscal cliff" negotiations: Richard Stengel; Katty Kay;...
Tags: Claire McCaskill, Brian Schweitzer, Bob Corker, Lindsey O. Graham, Benghazi
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