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Dick Lugar's warning for America
The hit men of the tea party can carve another notch in their collective gun belts this week with the ouster of Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Senate. Whatever mojo the conservative firebrands had in the 2010 GOP primaries,...
Tags: Monica Lewinsky, Crossroads, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Politics
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A betrayal of veterans
"I want to be absolutely clear: We cannot, and we must not, balance the budget on the backs of our veterans, and as commander in chief, I won't allow it." — President Barack Obama "It is absolutely essential to honor the commitments we have made...Tags: Retirement, Budgets and Budgeting, John McCain, Health Insurance Cost, The Pentagon
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Kaine to report $2.2 million raised in 1st quarter
Democrat Tim Kaine has raised $2.2 million in his first-quarter fundraising in his Virginia U.S. Senate race. The former governor will also report in his filings to the Federal Election Commission later this month that his campaign had $4.4 million on...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Federal Election Commission, George Allen, Politics, Republican Party
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Tim Conrad: I'm running for U.S. Senate seat in Virginia
The father of a Roanoke County soldier killed last month in Afghanistan over the burning of the Quran has launched a campaign to run as an independent candidate for theU.S. Senate seat in Virginia.
Tim Conrad is in the process of filing the necessary...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Roanoke County, American Civil Liberties Union, Politics, Voting
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A sharp divide on ultrasounds, HPV, 'personhood'
RICHMOND – When Majorie was 8 years old in the early 1930s, she came home from school in the Texas community she grew up in to find her mother and a friend talking about a neighbor woman who had just died, leaving four children behind.
"This...Tags: Democratic Party, Mumps, Human papillomavirus, Pharmaceuticals, Quinnipiac University
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Sens. Webb, Warner renew call for offshore drilling in Virginia
U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, both Virginia Democrats, again asked the Obama administration to open the state’s coast to oil and natural gas exploration.
In a letter Friday to Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, the pair said that...Tags: Democratic Party, Bob McDonnell, U.S. Department of the Interior, Jeff Bingaman, Ken Salazar
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Allen, Kaine debate in Richmond
Two former governors traded blame for the failing economy and disputed at what point contraception occurs during the first debate of Virginia's nationally prominent 2012 U.S. Senate race.
Republican George Allen and Democrat Tim Kaine faced off...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Family Planning, Harry Reid, Germany, Mining
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Virginia: land of outsourced labor
One industry wants to keep its foreign workers, the other wants to replace them. That’s how it goes in Virginia, where imported labor does everything from shucking oysters to caring for the elderly. U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, both...Tags: Democratic Party, Seafood, Barbara A. Mikulski, Wages and Pensions, Rob Wittman
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Webb, Warner call for oil drilling off Virginia's coast
U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, both Virginia Democrats, introduced legislation to compel the federal government to open Virginia’s coast to oil and natural gas exploration.
In a joint statement issued Wednesday, the senators said the United...Tags: Democratic Party, Bob McDonnell, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), U.S. House of Representatives, Natural Resources
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Sen. Webb to hold "Webb Site" in Gloucester on Wednesday
Sen. Jim Webb will have staff representatives at the Gloucester Public Library on Wednesday from 3-5:30 p.m. to assist constituents with questions about federal benefits and issues. Called a "Webb Site," the visit from the senator's staff constitutes...Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Voting
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Offshore drilling bill stalls in the Senate
An effort to overhaul the nation’s offshore drilling practices, which includes opening Virginia’s coast to oil and natural gas exploration, stalled in a Senate committee on Thursday.
Discussion on the bill, which could direct millions of...Tags: Bob McDonnell, Jeff Bingaman, Natural Resources, Mark R. Warner, Politics
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