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Senate rejected Toomey-backed sugar amendment to farm bill
Call Washington BureauDisputes over the government's sugar program break down regionally rather than politically. It pits lawmakers from states like Pennsylvania where candy making is big business against those from states where sugar is grown. Helping to lead the candy...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Heidi Heitkamp, North American Free Trade Agreement, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Dick Durbin
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...
Tags: Productivity, Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Congress
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Pence, Schumer on right side of press issue
Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.Disclosure last week that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press rocked the journalism community. Commandeering the work and personal phone records of individual...Tags: Barack Obama, Journalism, Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry, U.S. Department of Justice
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Christopher A. Coons, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Labor Legislation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Dick Durbin, Orrin Hatch
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Jonah Goldberg: Obama has no use for those who disagree with him
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it's extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And his...Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, Carl Levin
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Dawn Sweeney: Restaurant industry eyes sensible immigration reform
Capitol Hill is accustomed to bitter partisanship. But eight U.S. senators — four Democrats and four Republicans — just stood shoulder-to-shoulder to introduce a sweeping immigration reform bill. This so-called "Gang of Eight" is comprised of...Tags: Sales, Corporate Officers, U.S. Congress, Labor Legislation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Get-tough GOP now says Justice went too far
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.In virtual lockstep on topics such as guns, God and limited government, Southern Republicans in the Senate differ on how to balance national security interests with First Amendment protections. Last week, lawmakers from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and...Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Department of Justice
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IRS follows Obama's lead
Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it's extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And...
Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, Carl Levin
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Sen. Jim Inhofe goes 'unvarnished' for speech in Tulsa
Tulsa WorldThe potential Republican U.S. Senate candidates waiting in a long line for incumbent Sen. Jim Inhofe to retire might have a longer wait than they had hoped. Speaking Friday at the Tulsa Republican Club, Inhofe said emphatically that he is not a declared...Tags: Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Petroleum Industry, The Weather Channel (tv network)
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EDITORIAL: Justice Dept. shows all Americans are the AP
Albuquerque JournalThere are some very basic reasons Americans who don't work in the news media should be very concerned about the Justice Department secretly seizing telephone records of The Associated Press. Free thought. Free speech. A system that keeps government...Tags: Barack Obama, Benghazi, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Freedom of the Press
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EDITORIAL: Administration in disarray
Miami HeraldIt's bad enough that the Obama administration committed a wholesale violation of the First Amendment by prying into the records of phones used by almost 100 people at The Associated Press. But then Attorney General Eric Holder made matters worse by trying...Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Judges, Justice System
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