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House feels the heat on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...
Tags: Raul Labrador, Crime, Law and Justice, Health Insurance Cost, Labor Legislation, Paul Ryan
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Oklahoma lawmakers who opposed disaster aid now face own disaster
WASHINGTON -- When $50 billion in disaster aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy came before Congress this year, three of Oklahoma’s five representatives and both of its senators were among the "no" votes. At the time, some of the Oklahoma lawmakers...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, James Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Natural Disasters
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Obama budget would cut deficits, report says
WASHINGTON -- President Obama’s proposed mix of tax hikes and spending cuts would reduce future budget deficits more quickly than under current laws, according to a report issued Friday that could rekindle the dormant budget wars in Washington....
Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Mark Sanford sworn into Congress, calls himself 'humbled'
WASHINGTON -- Mark Sanford, after a detour to the governor's office and, infamously, to Argentina, is back in Washington as a member of Congress. The former three-term congressman and two-term governor was sworn in Wednesday as the representative for...
Tags: Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Internal Revenue Service, Mark Sanford, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Argentina
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Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy
WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained...
Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Sex Crimes, Al Gore, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Federal deficit shrinks at surprising rate
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...
Tags: Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Gross Domestic Product, U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff
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McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...
Tags: ABC (tv network), John McCain, Darrell E Issa, Benghazi, Jay Carney
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On IRS scandal, Speaker John Boehner asks, 'Who's going to jail?'
WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional leaders, faced with an array of crises threatening to overwhelm the White House, appear to have singled out the targeting of conservative political groups by the IRS as the most fertile -- and politically...
Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Congress
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House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again
WASHINGTON – House Republicans voted for the 37th time Thursday evening to repeal all or part of President Obama’s healthcare law, underscoring once again the deep partisan divide over the landmark 2010 legislation. The bill to roll back the...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Justice System
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White House announces new IRS leadership
WASHINGTON – Continuing to move quickly to try to put the IRS controversy behind him, President Obama named a new acting commissioner Thursday to replace the one he ousted the day before. Daniel Werfel, current controller of the Office of...
Tags: White House, Jack Lew, Barack Obama, Media Industry, Internal Revenue Service
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House immigration group reaches 'agreement in principle'
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has reached an "agreement in principle" on a sweeping immigration bill that would parallel work underway in the Senate, sources said Thursday. The consensus, reached after a private evening meeting,...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Politics, Migration
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By firing IRS boss, Obama buys into GOP's rush to judgment
On Wednesday, President Obama fired the head of the Internal Revenue Service, the first sacrificial lamb brought down after the alleged “targeting” of conservative political groups by the IRS. Obama declared, “Americans are right to be...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Media Industry, Internal Revenue Service, Politics
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