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EDITORIAL: Security failure
The Akron Beacon JournalGregory Hicks proved a compelling witness during the Wednesday hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The veteran diplomat captured the drama, anxiety and confusion of the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi,...Tags: Leon Panetta, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Department of State, Benghazi, Christopher Stevens
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Whistle-blower's yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics
WASHINGTON -- They summoned a whistle-blower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller. Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, was to be the star...
Tags: Politics, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Susan Rice, Republican Party
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GOP, Democrats continue to dispute regarding Benghazi deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats. History...
Tags: Monica Lewinsky, Politics, Elections, Richard Nixon, Mark Pocan
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Average federal salary up, despite pay freeze
The "average" federal employee salary is nearly $78,500, an amount that has risen by about $1,800 in the past two years despite a general freeze on salary rates, according to the Office of Personnel Management. As of September, OPM reported last week,...Tags: Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Layoffs and Downsizing, Internal Revenue Service, National Government
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More fishy government spending
If you're like me and wrote a healthy check last week to pay your dues to Uncle Sam, you probably don't want to hear more about the government wasting your hard-earned dough. But I'm going to stoke your ire anyway, because our president and Congress...Tags: Politics, Health Insurance, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Media Industry, Allentown
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Post office retreats on eliminating Saturday mail
WASHINGTON (AP) — The beleaguered U.S. Postal Service backed down from its cost-saving plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, acknowledging that Congress barred a move that supporters said was essential to addressing the agency's dire financial...
Tags: Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Congress, Government
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: Politics, United States Naval Academy, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Fires, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Tonight: State of the Union, ‘Cliffhanger,’ ‘Justified,’ Westminster best in show
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelPresident Barack Obama's State of the Union address will rearrange Tuesday prime time. The speech is scheduled to start at 9 on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business Network and Bloomberg. There will be responses by Sen.... -
Dundalk residents react to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
At the Dundalk Post Office this week, news that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays beginning in August was greeted with a mix of apathy and understanding. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Gillis said he wasn't...
Tags: Politics, Dundalk, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Bethlehem Steel, Labor Legislation
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Reactions mixed to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery
Word that the cash-strapped Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays hit Lakesha Johnson hard. "I think that's terrible," the Baltimore woman said Wednesday outside the city's Main Post Office on East Fayette Street. "When they want to...
Tags: Politics, Retirement, Tom Coburn, Dundalk, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Local reaction to Postal Service plan mixed
staff writer, @damichellegSomerset County residents have mixed opinions about the U.S. Postal Service's plan to stop Saturday delivery. The announcement was made Wednesday that first-class packages would not be delivered on Saturdays starting in August. Boswell Borough...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Tom Coburn, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Layoffs and Downsizing, Bill Shuster
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Mica is hitting the road (as transportation chair)
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelWASHINGTON — Top House Republicans have made their picks for chairmen in the next Congress and it looks like U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, is out. Mica, headed into his 11th term, currently heads the House transportation chair but is not...
May 10, 2013
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May 9, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 9, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013
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Apr 20, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 5, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 12, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 7, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 6, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
|Story| Daily American
Nov 27, 2012
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