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Rep. Issa tested by the spotlight
WASHINGTON — During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Elijah E. Cummings, Democratic Party, Jason Chaffetz, Government
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Immigration reform: Closer to reality or destined for failure?
Oh, how much things have changed in just a few months. Last May, Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on any aspect of immigration reform. But on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a far-reaching immigration bill, clearing the way for a...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Ted Cruz
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Prayers in public offices
Ideally, governmental bodies would refrain from including prayers — even ecumenical, "lowest-common-denominator" ones — in their public proceedings. But if prayers are to be offered, they certainly shouldn't be monopolized by a single...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Separation of Church and State
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Alaska governor launches bid to measure oil in Arctic refuge
For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America's Arctic frontier, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea contains stunning populations of caribou, grizzly, musk oxen and other wildlife...
Tags: Conservation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Environmental Issues, Sean Parnell, Regional Authority
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Democrats seeking office have their eye on Sacramento
WASHINGTON — Early this year, Leticia Perez and her husband flew here for a whirlwind 48 hours. The couple dined at the Italian Embassy, visited the Lincoln Memorial and joined the crowd on the National Mall watching as President Obama was...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party, Justice System, Labor Legislation
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Justice Department secretly obtained AP telephone records
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained records of telephone calls from more than 20 telephone lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists over a two-month period in an apparent investigation of a leak of sensitive...
Tags: News Media, Crime, Law and Justice, The Associated Press, Justice System, Eric Holder
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McManus: Obama's plan to avoid lame-duckery
For the last two months, President Obama has been mired in Washington's inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on the budget. But...
Tags: Bob Corker, Immigration, Barack Obama, Saxby Chambliss, Personal Weapon Control
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Mark Sanford and the end of the GOP culture wars
In April 1861, South Carolina fired the first shots of the Civil War. Almost exactly 152 years later, it may have fired the final shots of the Republican Party’s culture war. South Carolinians on Tuesday elected former Gov. Mark Sanford to the...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Hillary Clinton, Mark Sanford, Government
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Arizona law bans destroying guns purchased in buyback programs
This post has been corrected. See the note below.TUCSON — City- or county-sponsored gun buybacks — often used in larger cities to entice people to give up their handguns — have become effectively pointless in Arizona with legislation signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. The bill prohibits...Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Firearms
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John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger talk immigration reform at USC
Comprehensive immigration reform will pass the House of Representatives if reluctant Republicans are convinced that it is a matter of political survival, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said at USC on Tuesday. In conversations with other lawmakers, McCain...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Michael F. Bennet, John McCain, Antonio Villaraigosa, Government
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Schwarzenegger lends muscle to immigration discussion
Arnold Schwarzenegger uses his own improbable rise from bodybuilder to action hero to California governor as an argument for immigration reform. As a teenager in his native Austria, Schwarzenegger saw the United States as the only place he could achieve...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Michael F. Bennet, Antonio Villaraigosa, John McCain, Immigration
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Vicente Fox to Congress: Rethink that wall
Throughout 2001, President George W. Bush and I spent time negotiating an important bilateral agreement on immigration policies and programs. We optimistically pieced together an innovative framework, and were close to reaching our goals, when the...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Science and Technology, Immigration, Barack Obama, Globalization
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