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Which comes first: California's egg rule, or everyone else's?
WASHINGTON — Congress this year will deal with a host of profound issues: A confrontation over raising the nation's debt limit. Budget battles that will determine whether more cuts are made in government services. And the most ambitious attempt to...
Tags: Farms, U.S. Congress, Jim Costa, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Doug LaMalfa
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Stop the deficit extremists
The U.S. economy is improving, yet Congress seems still to be in the grip of the delirium that shrinking the deficit in the near term is still a matter of paramount urgency. That's what's prevented lawmakers from dealing with their real task, which is...
Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, Budget Control Act of 2011, Career and Workplace
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Republican donors, RNC push in different directions
PARK CITY, Utah — After women, young voters and Latinos fled from the Republican Party in droves in 2012, some GOP leaders thought they had a chance to turn things around. They embarked on a "listening tour" and put out a report acknowledging that...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Family, Migration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Elections
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Opponents of immigration reform face changed landscape
WASHINGTON — It's not as if Republican Rep. Steve King missed the message from party leaders about how supporting an immigration overhaul could help boost the GOP's standing among Latino voters. He just isn't buying it. "I'm incredulous with the...
Tags: Radio, U.S. Congress, John Boehner, Entertainment, Migration
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Need a paid vacation? Then America's not the place for you
Just back from a nice long Memorial Day weekend, which, of course, put me in the mood for, you guessed it -- a vacation. Then I read this story: “U.S. is only 'advanced economy' that does not require paid vacation.” Figures. So I...
Tags: Holiday Vacations, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Bastille Day, Trips and Vacations, Memorial Day
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Michele Bachmann won't run for reelection
WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann, the fiery conservative congresswoman from Minnesota, announced Wednesday she would not seek reelection, a move made in the face of a political challenge at home and several investigations into her failed run for the...
Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Michele Bachmann, FBI, Barack Obama
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Questioning the IRS
Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane were wrong to say in their Op-Ed article Wednesday that the IRS' targeting of unorthodox political groups chills free speech, wrote reader Harrison Stephenson in a letter to the editor. He said: -------------------- FOR THE...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Taxation, Politics
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McManus: 'Tea party' tempest brewing
The "tea party" is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment. After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the presidency but blew a chance to take over the Senate, party leaders paused to...
Tags: Parties and Movements, John Boehner, Productivity, U.S. Department of Education, Public Finance
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Tim Donnelly's a very social Assembly member
SACRAMENTO — Live from the Capitol, it's Tim Donnelly — on Facebook, on Twitter and on the Assembly floor, where he frequently denounces bills he dislikes. A two-term Republican lawmaker from San Bernardino County, he likes to be heard. Just...
Tags: Charles M. Calderon, Twitter, Inc., Social Media, Ted Lieu, Politics
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Rubio wants stronger border security in immigration reform bill
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a key author of the bipartisan Senate immigration overhaul, is working on a proposal that would give Congress, not the Obama administration, the authority to devise a plan to bolster border security. The...
Tags: Parties and Movements, John Cornyn, U.S. Congress, National Security, Career and Workplace
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Rep. Michele Bachmann says she won't run for reelection in 2014
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Rep. Michele Bachmann, a conservative sensation and briefly a Republican presidential front-runner, announced Wednesday that she won't seek reelection to her congressional seat in 2014. The four-term Minnesota lawmaker told supporters in...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Michele Bachmann, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Government dysfunction, part 1: The unaddressed 'sequester' mess
First, members of Congress set a trap that would bite hard if they failed to break the political gridlock and come up with a grand bargain on the budget. Then, having failed, they let the trap spring shut. And now, they continue to blunder and bluster...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, National Institutes of Health, Smithsonian Institution
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