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Boca Raton college student wraps up Senate internship
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsSen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, with Jason Goldsmith of Boca Raton Jason Goldsmith of Boca Raton completed a five-week internship Friday in the Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. He was in the nation's capital during the......Tags: Washington, DC, Elections, U.S. Senate, Kansas, Politics
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Kansans don't want Gitmo detainees
The Swampby Aamer Madhani The two U.S. senators from Kansas have what they say is the "gold standard" of military prisons in their back yard, but they have repeated their stance that Kansans want nothing to do with housing Guantanamo detainees.......Tags: John McCain, Sam Brownback, Barack Obama
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Bush close to Gitmo decision?
The Swampby James Oliphant ABC News is reporting that President Bush may decide in the coming days whether to close or revamp the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that holds about 270 alleged terrorists. Closing Gitmo has been advocated by Defense......Tags: Court Administration, Crime, Law and Justice, Kansas, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Trials
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Guantanamo going nowhere soon
The SwampIn this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee, left, walks in a fenced-in exercise area as a guard patrols on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp 5, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in......Tags: Justice and Rights, White House, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Government
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Man 'relieves himself' in political ad?
The Swampby Frank James Jim Slattery, a Kansas Democrat running against Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, wants to get your attention with a new ad called "Hosed." He certainly got mine. He has an ad in which a Gulliver-sized corporate executive......Tags: Kansas
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Geithner hearing postponed a week
The Swampby Frank James The Senate confirmation hearing for President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, has been postponed a week in the wake of revelations that he failed to initially pay Social Security and Medicare taxes...Tags: Timothy Geithner, State Budgets, Upper House, John Ensign, National Government
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Roberts: Let's give everyone a tax holiday!
Spin CycleRepublicans continue to give Geithner a hard time at his Finance Committee confirmation hearing. Olympia Snowe asks about his failure to effectively regulate credit swap derivatives, and his role in allow Lehman Brothers to fail. Jim Bunning says he......Tags: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Internal Revenue Service, Jim Bunning, Olympia J. Snowe
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Pelosi's CIA interrogation briefings: 2002
The Swampby Greg Miller Congressional leaders were briefed repeatedly on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods on Al Qaeda suspects, according to new information released by the Obama administration Thursday that appears to contradict the assertions of...Tags: Venice, Central Intelligence Agency, Police, Upper House, National Government
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Obama holds tense session with GOP
The SwampThe president apparently had a different view of Tuesday's meeting with Republican senators than some of the senators themselves. (Getty/Alex Wong) by Janet Hook President Obama paid a rare visit Tuesday to Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, seeking...Tags: Justice and Rights, John McCain, Lawyers, White House, Elections
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Turning the tables on Jack Lew
WASHINGTON -- President Obama won re-election in part by beating up on his opponent for receiving big corporate payouts in exchange for dubious work and for socking away money in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands. So it's a bit, well, rich that...
Tags: Max Baucus, Citigroup Incorporated, White House, Elections, Jack Lew
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President Obama unveils details of how he would cut farm safety net
About ten months ago, members of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, who were appointed by President Barack Obama, formally unveiled their plan to cut federal spending and raise revenues in an attempt to reduce the federal...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, White House, Economy, Business and Finance, Agricultural Research and Technology, Conservation
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Rubio has dinner at the White House
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of President Obama’s most persistent critics, joined him for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night to talk immigration, the budget and a wide range of other...
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