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The shift upset top members of the committee, fearful of leaving the bill exposed over the weekend.
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GOP senators voice strong opposition to the Senate Democrats' threat of filibuster reform'
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The bill would cut $1.3 billion from the popular Community Development Block Grants program.
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Bradley Manning is currently standing trial for having leaked classified material to the website WikiLeaks, and an all-star cast of celebrities has put together a video in ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses ...
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To the growing list of publications trying to get in on the Washington action, add one more: Cosmopolitan magazine. Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles, the magazine’s ...
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One of the more buzzed-about documentaries set to screen at Washington’s AFI Docs Festival is “Letters to Jackie,” a film directed by Bill Couturié that features ...
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A controversial appearance by the top Republican tax writer in Congress on Wednesday at a tea party rally to “audit” the IRS made one thing clear: There may be no new ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The 19th-century orator and writer Frederick Douglass will once again stand tall in the U.S. Capitol. A 7-foot bronze likeness of Douglass is being ...
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Filmmaker Ben Kalina will screen his new film, “ Shored Up ,” at the National Press Club on Tuesday and, although he began filming before Hurricane Sandy, he says that the ...
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Republican Gabriel Gomez’s internal polling shows him trailing Rep. Ed Markey (D) by 7 points, 47 percent to 40 percent, one week out from the Massachusetts special Senate ...
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The House Tuesday passed a bill that would ban most abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The most far-reaching abortion legislation in the House in a decade was approved ...
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Former Rep. Ron Paul isn’t buying that NSA surveillance of private American citizens is necessary or has prevented as many terrorism plots as officials claim it has, as was ...
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Republicans in Congress are pushing for major cuts across the federal budget, but so far, they’re not willing to sacrifice a plan to build a moon colony. In fact, ...
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) responded to former Bush adviser Karl Rove’s criticism of her, saying he does not speak for the Republican base. “The base of our party is ...
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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain's tip to once again break out the digging equipment to search for the remains of former ...
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Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court today to let it report the numbers of national security data requests it receives. “Greater transparency is ...
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Liberal comic Bill Maher is continuing his back-and-forth with Fox News contributor Sarah Palin, marking her return to the channel Monday with a tweet saying she’s the one ...
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WASHINGTON — Two officials say that Secretary of State John Kerry has chosen Russ Feingold, a former Democratic senator from Wisconsin, as the new U.S. special envoy for ...
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A Republican congressman is pushing back against his Democratic colleagues participating in the SNAP challenge, saying his communications director ate just fine on the average ...
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Republican Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell announced Tuesday that he will run for Senate next year. He enters as the apparent frontrunner against Joe Miller, a conservative who ...
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ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — World leaders at the G-8 summit have declared that governments must work together to close loopholes that allow multinational companies to ...
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Americans overwhelmingly oppose arming anti-government groups in Syria even as a new U.S. policy looks to do just that, a poll posted on Monday says. According to a survey ...
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Edward Snowden says Dick Cheney bestowed upon him the “highest honor you can give an American” when the former vice president called Snowden a traitor. The former ...
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A former top Obama administration health official, Don Berwick, formally announced Monday that he is running for governor of Massachusetts. Berwick, a Democrat, is a physician ...