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At new phase in budget fight, Obama reaches out to GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON -- President Obama appears to be trying to thaw chilly relations with lawmakers as he pushed through the latest budget battle while moving on to other parts of his second-term agenda. Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to visit...
Tags: John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, John McCain
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Rand Paul filibuster splits GOP, Graham now supports CIA nominee
WASHINGTON – The political fallout from Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster has begun as fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham switched Thursday to support John Brennan as CIA director, saying the vote has become a “referendum” on the...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, John McCain, Republican Party
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: John Boehner, Barack Obama, Richard Burr, Washington, DC, Budget Control Act of 2011
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English language too taxing for many Republicans
Republicans blame the English language for foiling their attempts to regain power. Yes — English! Of all tongues spoken in Babel, English is the richest in idiom, precision and subtlety. The language of the Bard and of Abraham Lincoln fell short...Tags: The New York Times, Foie Gras, Abraham Lincoln, John McCain, Parties and Movements
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made... -
McManus: Fiscal crisis? What crisis?
Here's what is most maddening about the "Perils of Pauline" fiscal crises that President Obama and Congress have led us into during the last year: Both sides have known from the beginning what the final deals would look like, but neither side has been...
Tags: John Boehner, Barack Obama, John McCain, Budget Control Act of 2011, Tom Coburn
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Senate committee approves John Brennan's nomination as CIA director
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 12 to 3 on Tuesday to approve John Brennan's as the next CIA director, ending weeks of delay and setting the stage for the full Senate to vote on Brennan's nomination later this week. The committee...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, DC, Central Intelligence Agency, Dianne Feinstein
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Obama to outline immigration plans in Nevada speech
President Obama plans to travel to Nevada next week for the public launch of his effort to pass a comprehensive immigration reform measure this year. Obama kicked off the effort to pass immigration reform Friday by meeting with Latino members of...
Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Immigration, Jay Carney, Bob Menendez
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Martin O'Malley, Barack Obama, Anthony G. Brown, Washington, DC
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), The New York Times, Judaism, John McCain, Iraq
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Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?
There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...Tags: Barack Obama, Susan Rice, John McCain, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton
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On taxes, Republicans discover the problem with "Never ever, ever, ever ..."
A few words to ponder as we sail toward the fiscal cliff. Those words would be: "That was then, this is now." Strip away the false piety and legalistic hair splitting offered by Republican lawmakers rationalizing their decision to abandon a pledge...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Politics, Elections, The Miami Herald, Crime, Law and Justice
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