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What to do about the filibuster? Full Article at U.S. News & World Report
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WASHINGTON — Skeptics reject President Barack Obama's expected decision to ramp up the Afghanistan war as a misguided bid to fix a muddled mission, arguing it will draw America deeper into a quagmire. Full Article at Michael Moore - This Just In
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The Obama administration announced Wednesday that the president will attend, briefly, global climate talks set for next month in Copenhagen. Full Article at Christian Science Monitor
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Former Eagles' offensive lineman Jon Runyan plans to run for Congress in South Jersey next year after finishing this football season with the San Diego Chargers. Full Article at Philadelphia Inquirer
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Luke Sharrett/The New York Times Courage made an appearance at the White House on Wednesday. A day after hosting his first state dinner, President Obama indulged in another presidential tradition — pardoning a turkey named Courage. Full Article at The Caucus
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George Washington was the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving a national holiday. Full Article at The Washington Post
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The author-politicians can operate in an environment more tightly controlled than an official run for office. They can focus on building personal ties to their most passionate supporters, independent of local party officials. Full Article at Huffington Post
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WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve, under attack in Congress for being too entwined with big banks, closed a loophole on Wednesday that allowed a director at Goldman Sachs to be a director of the New York Fed as the agency was bailing out Wall Street... Full Article at The New York Times
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US President Obama is pledging a provisional target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the US, the first time an American administration offered even a tentative promise to reduce production of climate-altering gases, White House officials... Full Article at Indian Express
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A House bill now being drafted would raise $150 billion each year to pay for new manufacturing jobs by taxing securities transactions such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures. Full Article at FOX Business
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As it becomes increasingly clear in the light of day that the bill passed by the U.S. House in the dark of night cannot find the necessary votes in the Senate, it is time for leaders to explore alternatives that have the support of the American people... Full Article at Town Hall
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Just in time for the holiday pollster Scott Rasmussen has found yet another reason for Republicans to be thankful. Full Article at U.S. News & World Report
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POET and wit Asraar ul Haq Majaaz returned home one night to find policemen crawling all over his ancestral house in Lucknow. Family members looked distraught. Cupboards and lofts had been ransacked. Full Article at Dawn
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It’s become a bit of a tradition here to post President George Washington’s around this time of year: Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to... Full Article at Sweetness & Light
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The unemployment rate will remain elevated for years to come, according to a forecast released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve that addresses for the first time economic conditions at the time of the next presidential election. It paints a grim picture. Full Article at Hot Air
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Bankruptcy's repeat offenders Many big companies have managed to emerge from Chapter 11, but it's a lot harder to bounce back from a second bust...or a third. View photos Map Stimulus: How many jobs? Full Article at CNN/Money
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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Of all of the insanity that has come out of our current democrat/communist congress, this has to really take the cake. These dangerous loons have been spending us into oblivion for quite some time. Full Article at Town Hall
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune
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ARLINGTON, Va. , Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Association for Homecare endorses the new "Prevent Health Care Fraud Act of 2009," S. 2128, which is designed to substantially improve tools and resources available to prevent fraud in... Full Article at PR Newswire
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Bigger than the budget deficit, America has a leadership gap. Despite last February's $787 billion stimulus package, the economic recovery is not creating jobs; unemployment is rising (34 million, including those whose benefits have expired, out of a workforce of 153.9 million); and the president and Co...
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Bob Hope epitomizes selfless giving to our troops ... In 1996, Congress honored Bob Hope by declaring him the first and only honorary veteran of the U.S. armed forces. He appeared in or hosted nearly 200 USO shows during his long career.
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Pity the poor American car when Congress and the White House get through with it--a lightweight vehicle with a small carbon footprint, using alternative energy and renewable resources to operate in a sustainable way. When I was a kid, we called it a Schwinn.
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The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
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The Congressional Budget Office, which is the independent scorekeeper in Congress, tells us that after all that is over, there will still be a substantial number of uninsured ... Oh by the way, all of you that have insurance, you are going to have to pay more for it, because it will drive up the cost of...
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When has a medical procedure exclusive to men ever been held to a vote on a floor of the United States Congress? ... Oh, wait, just remembered: Never.
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It is a privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate at this crucial time for our country ... My top priority is making sure Pennsylvania’s interests are represented in the Congress and with the White House; whether it is getting our fair share from the appropriations process, throug...
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Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, &c., provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States
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The targets that everyone is taking to Copenhagen are the bases for negotiation; and hopefully, the negotiations will see everyone coming up with more ambitious targets - otherwise there's no point in going to Copenhagen, we could leave it all up to the US Congress. The other important factor is whether...
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Unlike during previous trips by US leaders, China made no goodwill gestures for Obama such as freeing dissidents despite appeals from the US Congress to free Liu and other prominent inmates. 'The Chinese government does not reciprocate when it is given things for free. It simply takes them and moves on,...
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a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. ... They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office…Congress has no oversight of it... It's an executive assassination ring essentially, and it's been going on and ...
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The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit ... There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to curb the U.S. ...
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The American people are opposed to this particular health care bill. They thought this was all going to be about controlling costs, but, in fact, we've ended up with a $2.5 trillion budget-busting proposal that CBO, the scorekeeper in Congress, tells us, after it's all over, will not control costs.
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Agriculture and food security have become 'the core of the international agenda', as the G8 called it. … [Pres.] Barack Obama asked Congress to double to just over $1 billion America's aid for agricultural development in 2010.
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This agreement has almost crossed the finish line. There is not much left to sort out. But the president of the United States must determine and certify to Congress that New Delhi's International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards have entered into force.
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The (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) did a study of what would be required to meet the legislation that's going through Congress now on climate change - to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050 - they estimated that 185 new nuclear plants would be required to do that
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It is critical to the standing of the United States in the global financial economy to have a Treasury secretary who has the full support of the president and Congress; a person who has earned respect on their own as a result of hard-won battles in finance to represent this nation
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We have not come this far by accident or chance; together, the Democratic Congress has pushed for strong health care reforms to improve the lives of all Americans—and I believe success is on the horizon.
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It doesn’t register the way people in Washington think it does ... What is going to matter more to voters is the overall attitude towards Democrats in Congress and the president.
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Connecticut is a small state that is reliant on our ability to maximize our leadership in the United States Congress ... Any member of a town committee ... has got to weigh that.
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Enumerated Powers Act, a measure, 'To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws and for other purposes.'
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They are categorically false. It is sad and unfortunate that the right-wing minority in Congress is playing politics with allegations that have been dismissed by professional prosecutors, the Republican U.S. Attorney, and federal officials at AmeriCorps from both political parties.
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I strongly believe we did the right thing by passing the initial round of TARP to make credit available and avoid a collapse of the entire system ... TARP was intended to be timely and targeted, and we no longer need the Treasury to shovel out more money. It is in the best interest of American taxpayers...
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I can make this assurance to you - that as the first Pacific Islander and resident of a United States territory to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas - you will have a strong force for change, which will engage the federal bureaucracy, the Congress and our own island leaders as we strive...
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Having learned — maybe even overlearned — the lesson from the Clinton era and Kyoto, the U.S. administration this time around is really waiting to take all of its cues from Congress
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