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Senate passes bill to ease FAA furloughs
From the Associated PressWASHINGTON -- With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. A House vote on the measure was expected as early as...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Finance, MacArthur Airport, National Institutes of Health, John Thune
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No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Politics
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Let the Senate vote-a-rama begin
WASHINGTON – Step aside, stately Senate. Say hello to vote-a-rama. On Friday, the usually lonely floor of the U.S. Senate was thrown open for that most rare of occurrences – a free-for-all frenzy of amendment-making, which is required for...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Culture, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies
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House Republicans and Senate Democrats split on tax reform
The House and Senate budget committees presented their fiscal 2014 budget proposals this week with sharply different story lines. For House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the point of the exercise was to chart a path to a balanced budget...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, Taxation, Alternative Energy, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Unbalanced on budgets
New budget proposals this week from influential members of the House Republican and Senate Democratic leadership are the stuff of political caricatures. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), last year's Republican nominee for vice...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicare, Elections, Republican Party
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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: Dick Durbin, Amy Klobuchar, Barbara A. Mikulski, David Vitter, Mary L. Landrieu
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House approves short-term suspension of debt ceiling
WASHINGTON – House Republicans approved a temporary suspension of the $16.4-trillion ceiling on the nation’s debt Wednesday, allowing the federal government to continue borrowing through spring while Washington shifts to more ambitious...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Parties and Movements, White House, U.S. Congress
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Invitation to the postelection dance
I am traveling around the country these days trying to get people to buy my new book. During the day, I fly to distant cities, my nerves frayed by turbulence, trying to catch a glimpse of the pilot to see if he is drunk or on cocaine. At night, I go...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Elections, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Entertainment
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Fiscal cliff is a trap Republicans have set for themselves
Saturday night, I attended a wonderfully raucous dinner party where politics was as much a main course as the grass-fed beef. New York Times columnist Tim Egan – a good friend and a superb writer – was sitting two plates down the table from me...
Tags: Movies, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Budgets and Budgeting
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Statehood for District of Columbia could get another look
WASHINGTON -- Hail to the 51st state. Statehood for the District of Columbia is a long way off, but retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has introduced the New Columbia Admissions Act to put the issue on the front burner on Capitol Hill. "It is...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Dick Durbin, Republican Party, Elections, The Pentagon
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Senators seek U.S. probe of refineries' actions in gasoline market
The six senators representing the West Coast states of California, Oregon and Washington are sending a letter to U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. today, calling for an investigation into possible manipulation of the gasoline market by refineries that...
Tags: Ottawa Senators, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Merkley, Petroleum Industry, Maria Cantwell
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Weekend TV Talk Shows: Newt Gingrich; Rudy Giuliani; Antonio Villaraigosa
Show TrackerSATURDAY The Chris Matthews Show 2012 campaign, Memorial Day. (N) 5 p.m. KNBC; 5:30 a.m. Sunday KNBC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today 2012 election; the Black Dahlia murder; summer movie previews. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC Good Morning......
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