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Obama Cabinet picks advance after party-line votes
WASHINGTON – Two of President Obama’s second-term Cabinet nominees inched forward Thursday, while another was poised to win final confirmation by the Senate. Thomas E. Perez, Obama’s choice to lead the Labor Department, and EPA nominee...
Tags: Lamar Alexander, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Republican Party
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Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Gina McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Labor secretary nominee unscathed after hearing
WASHINGTON — President Obama's pick for Labor secretary, Thomas E. Perez, emerged unscathed Thursday from a Senate confirmation hearing that was more perfunctory than contentious. Conservatives have been critical of Perez, the administration's top...
Tags: Lamar Alexander, Barack Obama, Thomas Edward Perez, Justice and Rights, Voting
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Immigration proposal, and its small GOP opposition, is unveiled
— Moments before a group of eight senators unveiled a sweeping bipartisan immigration overhaul Thursday, a smaller group launched the GOP opposition. Led by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Republican push-back emerged as a muted affair....
Tags: AFL-CIO, Jeff Sessions, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Jeff Sessions, Lamar Alexander, Orrin Hatch, John Thune, Science and Technology
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HUD Secretary Donovan says he can't promise FHA won't need bailout
WASHINGTON -- A top Obama administration official said Thursday that he could not guarantee that efforts to shore up a key government housing agency won't save it from needing a taxpayer bailout next year. But Housing and Urban Development Secretary...
Tags: Foreclosures, Federal Housing Administration, Services and Shopping, Republican Party, Bob Corker
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GOP blocks vote on Richard Cordray to head consumer bureau [Updated]
Money & CompanyRepublicans on Thursday blocked the Senate from voting on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.... -
The psychology of Weinergate and what it says about us
Opinion L.A.One of the most interesting things about Weinergate isn't that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) took photos of a sexual nature and shared them outside of his marriage, but that he was careless enough to send them over the Internet and...... -
About (Late) Last Night: Colbert on Weiner scandal: 'Republican politicians are man enough to hit that' [Video]
Show TrackerStephen Colbert on Anthony Weiner's Twitter scandal.... -
Joe Manchin, John Raese win West Virginia senate primaries
Top of the TicketDemocrats and Republicans select their candidates to challenge for the seat vacated by the Senate's oldest serving member, the late Robert Byrd.... -
Social media wrap: Obama retweets his own Iraq speech [Updated]
Top of the TicketOnce an Internet superstar who parlayed his online popularity successfully, the Democrat now finds social-media reaction to his second Oval Office address definitely muted.... -
Gulf Oil spill: The military moves in
GreenspaceTwo Air Force planes will spray chemicals to help break up the Gulf Coast oil spill, Pentagon officials said Friday as they considered what more the military could do to assist. The two C-130 Hercules cargo planes were staging for......
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