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Rubio dines with political adversary Obama
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of President Obama’s most persistent critics, joined him for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night to talk immigration, the budget and a wide range of other topics. Not big breakthroughs emerged from the...
Tags: Lamar Alexander, Immigration, Personal Weapon Control, Mike Crapo, Barack Obama
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Thune being watched in sales tax vote
PIERRE -- This week, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on Internet sales-tax legislation that is strongly supported by retail businesses in South Dakota. If it eventually becomes law, the state treasury and municipal governments throughout South...
Tags: Kristi Noem, E-Commerce Industry, Business, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Regional Authority
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Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle In Hartford On Thursday
The Hartford CourantFormer U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is the featured speaker Thursday morning at an event held by the Connecticut Health Council. Daschle will give a talk entitled "The Affordable Care Act: A New Paradigm for Healthcare in America?" The...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections, Tom Daschle, Politics, U.S. Senate
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SD Sen. Tim Johnson retirement opens door for GOP
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson was expected to announce his retirement Tuesday, making the state the fifth where Democrats will have to defend a seat without an incumbent seeking re-election. The decision opens up a 2014 race...
Tags: Heidi Heitkamp, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Democratic Party, Carl Levin, Television Industry
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Charm offensive produces no Budget Battle breakthroughs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over dinner at a swank hotel a few blocks from the White House, Republican senators wanted to know if President Barack Obama would support a gradual increase in the age of eligibility for Medicare, set at 65 since the program's...
Tags: James Lankford, Medicare, U.S. Congress, John McCain, White House
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Rural America's political clout slipping, USDA secretary warns
MITCHELL -- Rural America is in a struggle to remain relevant. So said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in December after rural voters showed up for the November election in lackluster numbers and as Congress was letting a new farm bill slip through...Tags: Kristi Noem, Environmental Issues, Tea Party Movement, Environmental Politics, Conservation
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Vidgame biz touts PSAs
VarietyNearly three months after the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, the vidgame business is launching a public service campaign to tout its existing ratings system and to encourage parental controls. There was no mention of changing content. Though D.C. is...Tags: Entertainment, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Barack Obama, Government, Adam Lanza
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LETTER: Noem, Thune made right move with Violence Against Women Act
Kudos to Rep. Kristi Noem and Sen. John Thune for opposing the Violence Against Women Act. Make no mistake: Decent people are outraged at the abuse of women, but VAWA is more about building feminist power structures than about protecting vulnerable women....Tags: Kristi Noem, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Violence Against Women Act
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Hagel confirmed as secretary of defense
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, who won two Purple Hearts in the Vietnam War, survived the turbulent battle over his nomination to lead the Pentagon, where he will confront two new challenges: potentially dramatic budget cuts and tensions with...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Carl Levin, Afghanistan, Benghazi, U.S. Congress
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Protect Our Prairies Act creates a nationwide ÂSodsaver provision
Washington, DC - On Feb. 14, Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), along with six additional cosponsors, introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect our nation's remaining native prairies and prime grasslands. The Protect...Tags: Kristi Noem, Collin Peterson, Environmental Issues, Bennie G. Thompson, Conservation
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Thune right: Democrats in denial about fiscal crisis
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., argues in Politico that the nation’s fiscal problems cannot be solved by tax increases. As Sen. Thune observes, Congressional Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, seem to believe that we don’t have...Tags: Productivity, Medicare, Barack Obama, Politics, Nancy Pelosi
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Daschle reflects on life, both in and out of Senate
Tom Daschle's latest book is, in simplest terms, a contemporary explainer of the U.S. Senate, its history and how it works. In "The U.S. Senate: Fundamentals of American Government," the Aberdeen native reminisces that had he not worked his way up...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Conservation, U.S. Congress, World War I (1914-1918), Woodrow Wilson
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Feb 19, 2013
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