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Cardin stands up for rights
This month's passage of a new U.S.-Russia trade law has done more than showcase Senator Ben Cardin's dedication to international human rights. By sending the shock to the Kremlin — that the U.S. values prosecuting rights abusers as much as it...
Tags: Parliament, Barack Obama, Benjamin L. Cardin, European Parliament, U.S. Department of State
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Dick Durbin, Parties and Movements, Democratic Governors Association, This Week (tv program)
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Political Candidates, Democratic Party, U.S. Supreme Court
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Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?
There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Congress
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Why did Obama defend and then drop Susan Rice?
Whether Susan Rice jumped or was pushed from consideration to succeed retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her removal from the equation clears one bone of partisan contention from President Barack Obama's plate as he heads into his second term....
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, Hillary Clinton, Talk Shows (genre), Elections
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Why annihilate the GOP?
Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled speaker...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Republican Party, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Republicans right to seek answers about Benghazi
In general, presidents should appoint whomever they want to serve in their cabinets. But that doesn't mean that re-elected President Barack Obama will — or even should — appoint U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace the soon-departing...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State, Talk Shows (genre)
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...
Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, Defense Equipment
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Targeting Hillary
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's swan song before the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs was in a sense a prelude to any future bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. It gave Republicans a last chance to cast her as an...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Rand Paul, U.S. Department of State, Hillary Clinton
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Real questions for Hagel and Brennan
Whether Chuck Hagel and John Brennan are the ideal men to lead the Pentagon and CIA remains to be seen. We need the exercise of a through vetting in Senate confirmation hearings, and certainly an examination of the nominees' past statements and actions is...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Terrorism, John Brennan
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Obama's State of the Union address as prepared for delivery [Text]
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: New Products, Labor Legislation, Credit and Debt, Energy, Natural Disasters
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A 'path' to meaningful reform
The road to meaningful U.S. immigration reform will no doubt prove rocky and difficult, but at least Washington has taken its first big step on the most critical part of the route — down the so-called "path to citizenship" that now has bipartisan...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, Elections, Government
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