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    Feb 17, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  1. House Republicans vote to allow offshore oil drilling near Florida

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    By William Gibson, Washington Bureau House Republicans, including seven from Florida, voted late Thursday to end the ban on drilling along Florida’s west coast. But the bill has almost no chance of becoming law. It would open parts of the eastern...
    2. Feb 17, 2012 |Story| Petoskey News

  2. Analysis: A quiet surrender for the GOP this time

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A united House Republican leadership surrendered crisply and cleanly on legislation to extend expiring payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans, skipping most if not all of the self-defeating drama that accompanied their far...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Unemployment Benefits, Politics, Kevin Brady, Labor Markets

    3. Feb 14, 2012 |Story| CNN

  3. Tentative payroll tax cut deal reached, GOP legislators say

    Congressional negotiators reached a tentative deal Tuesday to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare doctors, according to Republican legislators and aides.
    CNN
    Congressional negotiators reached a tentative deal Tuesday to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare doctors, according to Republican legislators and aides. The framework deal followed a key...

    Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Politics, CNN (tv network)

    4. Feb 13, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  4. House transportation bill: Traffic is heavy -- against it

    Nation Now
    Mass transit bill: Environmentalists, unions and conservative groups all agree on a highway and mass transit bill headed to the House this week -- they hate it....
    5. Dec 13, 2011 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  5. Postal Service Agrees to Delay Cutbacks and Layoffs

    WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to a five-month moratorium on closures of post offices and processing facilities while lawmakers hammer out legislation to overhaul the cash-strapped mail carrier, a group of U.S. senators said on Tuesday.
    WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to a five-month moratorium on closures of post offices and processing facilities while lawmakers hammer out legislation to overhaul the cash-strapped mail carrier, a group of U.S. senators said on Tuesday....

    Tags: Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Terry Branstad, Mail Order Industry, Rentals

    6. Oct 18, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  6. Siplin: Lawmakers can’t do away with my district

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    TALLAHASSEE — As the politically cantankerous redistricting process cranks up, Senate lawmakers are starting to quarrel over the publicly drawn maps the chamber is reviewing — and they haven't even drawn any lawmaker-submitted maps yet. During...
    7. Sep 17, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. WEST BANK: U.S. envoys' paper emboldens Abbas to go before U.N.

    Babylon & Beyond
    A paper special U.S. peace envoys David Hale and Dennis Ross presented to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that was supposed to sway him away from going to the United Nations was what caused Abbas to take a......
    8. May 21, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  8. Marriage licenses for April in Washington County

    The following marriage licenses were issued in April in Washington County Jose Luis Rodriguez, 57, and Rosa Maria Arnold, 54, both of Waynesboro, Pa. Eric David Cramer, 37, and Debbie Ann Miller, 39, both of Boonsboro Louis Brandon Martelli, 29, and...

    Tags: Inwood (Manhattan, New York), Woodbridge, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), David Allen, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland)

    9. Apr 27, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  9. Zombies lurching their way to congressional offices

    Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando Sentinel
    The liberal group Organize Now plans to protest a Republican plan to change Medicare by rallying outside select GOP congressional offices — including U.S. Rep. Dan Webster's — while dressed as zombies. The group is encouraging members to...
    10. Apr 7, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  10. Let's all get off the term 'on steroids'

    Not so long ago, the way to convey that something was extreme was to simply call it extreme ("X" for short.) There were extreme sports (think bungee jumping), extreme tourism (think traveling in order to bungee jump) and, of course, the "Extreme Makeover" television franchise, which took self-improvement and home improvement to new levels by throwing in hefty doses of plastic surgery and new construction along with the usual hairstyle and paint color changes.
    Not so long ago, the way to convey that something was extreme was to simply call it extreme ("X" for short.) There were extreme sports (think bungee jumping), extreme tourism (think traveling in order to bungee jump) and, of course, the "Extreme Makeover"...

    Tags: White House, Breast Augmentation, Crime, Law and Justice, Drugs and Medicines, Steroids

    11. Apr 3, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Did Obama avert a bloodbath in Libya?

    Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But it's also Barack Obama in 2011, attacking Libya.
    Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But it's also Barack Obama in 2011,...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security, Wars and Interventions

    12. Mar 24, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News

  12. Panel disputes savings from Postal Service cutbacks

    McClatchy Newspapers
     WASHINGTON — The decision whether to cut back U.S. mail delivery to five from six days a week was complicated Thursday by a report that suggested the U.S. Postal Service had overstated the savings to be gained by the change.  The U.S. Postal...

    Tags: Politics, Personal Service, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service, Carol Stream

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