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Letters: Obama's line in the sand
Re "Obama seems to gain ground in debt fight," News Analysis, Jan. 15 The last time we faced a debt-ceiling crisis, in the summer of 2011, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) walked out of the negotiations and President Obama warned that millions...
Tags: Barack Obama, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Economy, Business and Finance, Republican Party, U.S. Congress
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Tea party Sen. Jim DeMint to retire, lead conservative think tank
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, one of the most influential leaders of the tea party wing of the party, will retire in January to head a conservative think tank in Washington. DeMint has been a renegade on and off Capitol...
Tags: Government, Religion and Belief, Think Tanks, Republican Party, Politics
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Jim DeMint's new job promises a much bigger payday
Jim DeMint has mentioned several reasons he will leave the U.S. Senate in January to lead the Heritage Foundation think tank. The South Carolina senator told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he looked forward to heading what he called America’s premier...
Tags: Wolf Blitzer, U.S. Congress, Republican Party, The Washington Post, Politics
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House GOP lines up debt ceiling vote; White House will not oppose
WASHINGTON – House Republicans appear confident they have the votes to pass a short-term debt ceiling increase as they attempt to dispatch with this fiscal battle to focus on bigger ones ahead. The bill, coming up for a vote Wednesday, would be an...
Tags: FreedomWorks, Harry Reid, U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff, Jay Carney
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Obama's inaugural speech provokes rattled Republicans
The complaints of congressional Republicans that President Obama’s inaugural address sent them no bouquets and love letters show a lot of gall, given the history of the last four years. Obama’s inauguration speech in 2009 was crammed with...
Tags: Bob Dole, Fiscal Cliff, Mitt Romney, Rob Portman, Sarah Palin
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John Boehner's biggest struggle may be with his own right-wingers
Before he gets to the fiscal cliff, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) will have to traverse the conservative chasm. On one side of the growing rift stand pragmatic conservatives such as Ann Coulter and Bill Kristol who say Republicans should...
Tags: Mike Huckabee, U.S. Congress, Ann Coulter, Democratic Party, Fiscal Cliff
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Grass roots? $8-million tea party payout to Washington insider
From its formation in 2004, it always seemed more than a bit incongruous that the tea party political group FreedomWorks chose as its chairman one of the erstwhile top power players from the halls of Congress. Nothing Dick Armey did in eight years...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff, Dick Armey
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Paul Ryan's next budget: More of the same -- a lot more
Now that two months have passed since the 2012 election, what does Rep. Paul Ryan think the voters' message was? It wasn't a rejection of the Romney-Ryan platform or of the "Ryan Budget" that would have turned Medicare into a voucher plan, Ryan told...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal
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Why did FBI militia informant have a foot in Alaska politics?
SEATTLE -- Now that the mole who helped bring down the leadership of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia has talked publicly, the big question on some minds in Alaska is: Why was federal FBI informant William Fulton involved in political campaigns? The...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Wars and Interventions, Ted Stevens, Journalism
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It's 2013, when dreams may yet come true
New Year's Day is a time for reassessment and renewal — and hoping the next year is an improvement over the messy rat race that was the last one. On that note, The Times has a tradition of reserving this page on this day for our own, often...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gays and Lesbians, Wars and Interventions, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Fiscal Cliff
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4 candidates for L.A. city attorney spar at Hollywood forum
L.A. NOWSharp elbows were the order of the day as the lawyers competing for Los Angeles city attorney stumped for votes—and advantage—at a candidates forum in Hollywood Monday night.... -
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson leaving Congress to join top campaign donor
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.), freshly reelected to her ninth term in Congress, announced Monday that she would resign in February and become the president and chief executive of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn., the top donor...
Tags: Jay Nixon, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Jo Ann Emerson, Politics
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