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Senate Armed Services panel approves defense bill
The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a $625 billion defense bill Friday that would raise the cost cap on the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and free up nearly $2 billion to restore cuts from sequestration. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the...
Tags: Gerald Ford, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senate, U.S. Military, Mark R. Warner
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Palatine High senior honored for artwork
Palatine High School senior Alyssa Froehling has won the 8th District title in the Congressional Art Competition, and her artwork will soon hang on Capitol Hill. U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates announced Froehling's "Symbiosis" photo...
Tags: Justice System, U.S. House of Representatives, Judges, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: 'The Confession'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Orphan Black Paul (Dylan Bruce)...
Tags: Linda Sanchez, The Huffington Post, Chris Rock, Jaime Herrera, Kirsten Gillibrand
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Benghazi attack tops Sunday morning news menu
Staff writerThe Benghazi attack will be the main topic this weekend on Sunday morning chat programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., talk to NBC's "Meet the Press" at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. They will discuss whether there was...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Television Industry, Linda Sanchez, This Week (tv program), ABC (tv network)
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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Easter
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Former Rep. Joe Walsh's radio show to start March 25
Clout StreetOutspoken former one-term Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, who teased his dedicated tea party supporters with the prospect of a possible run for governor in 2014, is now officially headed to radio. Walsh released a statement today confirming that he...Tags: Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Elections, Tea Party Movement, Joe Walsh
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Democratic congressmen support Illinois gay marriage, though they can't vote on it
Clout StreetA day after Speaker Michael Madigan pronounced the gay marriage bill 12 votes short, a group pushing the issue tried to recapture momentum by announcing support from seven Illinois Democratic congressmen --- even though they don’t get to vote in...Tags: Bobby Rush, Same-Sex Marriage, Daniel Lipinski, Bill Foster, Politics
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Kirk: Lock up the 'chuckleheads'
Change of SubjectTranscribed from a portion of the WBEZ-FM 91.5 interview with Republican U.S. Sen Mark Kirk of Illiniois Wednesday: Alex Keefe: Senator, you mentioned the murder of Hadiya Pendleton a moment ago. It seemed like things got pretty emotional in the...... -
This soldier's skill had nothing to do with gender
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a hunter. She tracked men and she killed them. And no woman was ever better at it. She'd hide under bushes in the snow. Or she'd find a burned-out building and watch in the gray rubble in the cold, waiting for enemy soldiers....
Tags: U.S. Military, Chicago Tribune, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Criminals, U.S. Army
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Kirk hailed upon return to U.S. Senate
Sen. Mark Kirk's halting, 18-minute climb up the Capitol steps Thursday came nearly a year after a major stroke left him so incapacitated that he was in critical condition for 10 to 15 days and had difficulty keeping his balance while sitting up. Those...
Tags: Robert Dold, Iraq War (2003-2011), Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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Major step: Kirk returns to Senate
Keeping a pledge he made last spring, Sen. Mark Kirk climbed the Capitol steps on Thursday to mark his return almost a year after suffering a major stroke. The 53-year-old Republican from Illinois was greeted by two top Democrats: Vice President Joe...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Roland Burris, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin III, Politics
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Walsh, Duckworth in heated debate
A heated suburban congressional campaign boiled over during a Tuesday night debate as Republican Rep. Joe Walsh labeled Tammy Duckworth a "failed bureaucrat" running a poll-tested campaign while the Democratic challenger argued the incumbent serves the...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Medicare, Republican Party, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Government Health Care
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