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Aaron Schock won't seek GOP nod for governor
Tribune reporterU.S. Rep. Aaron Schock has opted to bypass a run for the Republican Illinois governor nomination and instead will seek a fourth term in Congress next year, a top aide said Thursday. Schock, 31, from Peoria, ultimately decided he could do more good...Tags: U.S. Congress, Government, Republican Party, Kirk W Dillard, U.S. House Committee on Ethics
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Farming: SNAP will bite back
Two of the greatest ironies of living in the richest, strongest nation in the history of the world are how many poor people remain in 21st century America and how vulnerable — as the Boston bombings showed again — we are to evildoers....Tags: U.S. Congress, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Congressional Budget Office, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Debate circles online sales tax
Star TribuneLandmark legislation to force online and mail-order retailers to collect sales tax on out-of-state purchases advanced toward Senate passage this week. Retail giants such as Minnesota-based Target and Best Buy have spent millions of dollars over the past...Tags: Erik Paulsen, Amy Klobuchar, Michele Bachmann, Target, Republican Party
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Fight Club on the Hill
WASHINGTON -- House conservatives met Wednesday for the latest installment of their "Conversations with Conservatives" luncheon series, but they took their places on the dais without sampling the Chick-fil-A sandwiches and nuggets on offer. These days,...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, Health Care Reform (2009), Elections, The Washington Post, Republican Party
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Pearson solution in holding pattern
The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.Strong language, finger-pointing, community outrage and even congressional action has surrounded the operations of Pearson Air Museum since its management switched from the Fort Vancouver National Trust to the National Park Service earlier this year....Tags: Interior Policy, Jaime Herrera, Environmental Issues, Human Interest, National Parks
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Republicans rediscover tolerance
WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers put the finishing touches on an immigration deal, veteran Rep. Don Young decided this would be a good time to come out with an immigration plan of his own. His involves calling Latino immigrants "wetbacks." For Young, now in...
Tags: Don Young, Republican Party, Steve King, Joe Scarborough, John Cornyn
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Sequestration? Not Scary. Try Fiscal Death Match
The Hartford CourantI'm trying really hard to get all worked up over sequestration, but it ain't taking. Congress has been no help. They called it a weekend on Thursday and went home the day before the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts was scheduled to begin....Tags: U.S. Congress, Academy Awards, Ronald Reagan, White House, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Carson tapped to speak at major conservative political conference
Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson will speak at a prominent conservative political rally next month, alongside the likes of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, the American Conservative Union said...
Tags: Government, Neurosurgery, Jim DeMint, Regional Authority, Bobby Jindal
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Religion and Belief, Philosophy
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Could TV have a done a poorer job of covering sequester?
The Baltimore SunThere is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester. Television news has been polarizing, sensational and mostly focused on personality rather than the policy behind the $85 billion in federal spending cuts...Tags: U.S. Congress, Tiger Woods, Entertainment, Budget Control Act of 2011, White House
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Congressional Budget Office, Leon Panetta, White House, Republican Party
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama
Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 2, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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Jan 7, 2013
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