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Divisions in Republican party are key to immigration reform debate
Milwaukee Journal SentinelRepublican Paul Ryan made an attention-getting move on immigration last week, pairing up with House Democrat Luis Gutierrez of Chicago to press for big, bipartisan reforms, including a path to citizenship for many of the millions of immigrants here...Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements, Democratic Party
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Gun votes by Baldwin, Johnson carried political risks
Milwaukee Journal SentinelLast week's big gun votes were politically painless for at least two kinds of senators: rural red-state Republicans voting against gun control, and coastal blue-state Democrats voting for new gun restrictions. But the politics wasn't that simple for...Tags: Gun Control, Tammy Baldwin, Parties and Movements, Harry Reid, Politics
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One to watch from Michigan
WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism....
Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Carl Levin, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz
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RPOF announces major staff shakeups
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The Republican Party of Florida announced some major staff departures and arrivals Friday, the biggest being that Executive Director Mike Grissom is leaving to take a job as political affairs director with the Florida Chamber of... -
Jeb Bush will be on five Sunday morning programs
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelFormer Gov. Jeb Bush will be everywhere Sunday morning. He is on five programs: “Meet the Press,” “State of the Union,” “Fox News Sunday,” “Face the Nation” and “This Week.” The Florida... -
Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tom Coburn, Parties and Movements, Kelly Ayotte, Bill Clinton
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Joe Biden, Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Coburn, Budgets and Budgeting, White House
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Club for Growth loves Marco; Bill, Debbie, not so much
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelUpdated 1:05 p.m. 2/26/13 to reflect that Posey did not get an award. The staunchly-conservative Club for Growth, a big funder of political campaigns through its affiliated PAC and Super PAC, is out with its 2012 Congressional scoreboard, throwing special... -
Targeting Hillary
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's swan song before the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs was in a sense a prelude to any future bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. It gave Republicans a last chance to cast her as an...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Duncan, Primaries
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The ghosts of Benghazi
WASHINGTON -- We may never know exactly what happened in Benghazi the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but it's becoming increasingly clear that our response was short of optimum. Even today, there are far more...
Tags: Leon Panetta, Martin Dempsey, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Embassy
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Lady Hillary of Benghazi
Paul GreenbergHillary Clinton kept her cool last week as she fielded questions from two congressional committees about the State Department's failure to protect our envoys at Benghazi. Until a senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, pressed her on the subject. That's when...Tags: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda, Benghazi
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Hillary leaves office stronger than ever
When Hillary Clinton went to Capitol Hill last week, Republicans opened their bags of overly ripe conspiracy theories and moldering fruitcake ideas and tossed everything at her. Every shot missed. Republican senators and congressmen on the foreign...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, David Horsey, Benghazi, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Politics
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Feb 26, 2013
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Feb 11, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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