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Mitt Romney had 3 of top 2012 search memes, and not in a good way
Online news giant Yahoo! announced its top search terms of 2012 Monday and, no surprise, the 2012 election topped all other topics, including the iPhone 5, which registered the second-most searches; Kim Kardashian, who attracted the third most and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Apple iPhone, Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan, Kony 2012 (movie)
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Elizabeth Warren's first grilling of regulators is a YouTube hit
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a darling of liberals who has been mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential contender, had kept a deliberately low profile since her election in November. In less than five minutes last week,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Judges, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Senate Democrats are united against GOP push to weaken consumer bureau
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats said Thursday they were united in opposing Republican efforts to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and told President Obama they supported the renomination of Richard Cordray to head the agency. "It is...
Tags: Consumers, Barack Obama, Mark Pryor, Career and Workplace, Bernard Sanders
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'Mo' Cowan sworn in, giving Senate a record number of blacks -- 2
WASHINGTON — The usually pin-drop-quiet Senate gallery erupted in applause Thursday after William “Mo” Cowan was sworn in as the newest senator from Massachusetts. Vice President Joe Biden administered the noontime oath to Cowan, a...
Tags: Scott P. Brown, Regional Authority, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Deval Patrick
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Scott Brown won't seek Senate comeback
WASHINGTON – Scott Brown, defeated last November in a marquee election battle for a Massachusetts Senate seat by Elizabeth Warren, has opted against seeking a return to Congress this June in the special election to replace John F. Kerry. The...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Elections, Politics, Scott P. Brown
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Mass. governor names ex-aide as interim senator to replace Kerry
WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has named his former chief of staff to temporarily fill the Senate seat being vacated by John Kerry, and called a special election for June 25 for voters to choose a permanent replacement for the incoming...
Tags: Regional Authority, Elections, Executive Branch, Politics, Corporate Officers
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Mary Jo White won't be intimidated as SEC chief, Obama says
WASHINGTON -- President Obama nominated Mary Jo White to be the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying her track record as a hard-nosed prosecutor means she won't be easily intimidated as Wall Street's new top watchdog. "You don't...
Tags: Criminals, Chuck Schumer, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Elections, Republican Party
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Garcetti's campaign spending pledge has roots in Massachusetts
Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti's call last week for a "People's Pledge" — to limit spending by outside groups in the mayor's race — hails from Massachusetts, where a similar pact got mixed reviews from the Boston Globe. The Boston...
Tags: Boston, Scott P. Brown, Eric Garcetti, Online Advertising, U.S. Senate
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New twist in L.A. mayor's race: the 'People's Pledge'
L.A. NOWWill the candidates for L.A. mayor sign the People’s Pledge? Eric Garcetti would like to know if opponent Wendy Greuel would agree to a pledge that he said would reduce the influence of special interests in the campaign.... -
COLUMN: Who's on Democrats' 'short list'?
Soon after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party’s nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...Tags: Andrew Cuomo, James Buchanan, Barack Obama, James Carville, Regional Authority
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McManus: Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?
Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...
Tags: James Buchanan, Andrew Cuomo, Barack Obama, John Quincy Adams, Regional Authority
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Time to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
TARP, the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008, is finally over. The Treasury Department recently announced it will soon be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors....
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Republican Party
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