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Maryland enrollment soars in federal phone program
Enrollment in a controversial program that provides free cell phone service to low-income families has increased faster in Maryland than any other state in the nation, jumping nearly 90-fold since 2008 — renewing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its...
Tags: Federal Communications Commission, Employment Opportunities, Radio, U.S. Congress, Employment
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Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator
WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at a Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Janet Napolitano, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Roger F. Wicker, Anthrax
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Female vs. male senators
As the son of a woman, the husband of a woman and the father of daughters and granddaughters, I celebrate the record number of females who are now United States senators. However, I do see some differences in the way these and other women are treated,...
Tags: Lisa Murkowski, Susana Martinez, Bella Abzug, Jim DeMint, NAACP
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O'Malley bashes Republicans on jobs on CNN
Gov. Martin O'Malley returned to the national stage Sunday after a Democratic National Convention speech that received tepid reviews, facing off with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt over job creation and women's issues on CNN. Questioned by CNN's Candy Crowley,...Tags: Regional Authority, U.S. Senate, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Martin O'Malley, Democratic Governors Association
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Women flex muscle at the polls
Congratulations, ladies. You kept the barbarians from the gate. On Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously said that a woman's reproductive system shuts down during "legitimate rape" and prevents conception, lost by 15 points to incumbent Sen....
Tags: Robert P. Casey, Jr., Tammy Duckworth, Abortion Issue, Reproductive System, Joe Walsh
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Mikulski touts role of women in Congress
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the self-styled dean of the Democratic women in Congress, urged support of female candidates in an address to her party's national convention Wednesday that came as both presidential campaigns sought to court women voters. As...
Tags: Michelle Obama, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Patty Murray, Labor Legislation, Roscoe G Bartlett
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The decline of party power
No recent development has underlined the decline of political party clout more than beleaguered Senate Republican nominee Todd Akin's refusal to accede to GOP leadership demands that he withdraw from his race against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of...
Tags: Joe Biden, Gerald Ford, John Bailey, Todd Akin, Paul Ryan
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Akin's rape comments elicit anger in Md., U.S.
Furor surged in Maryland and across the country Monday over a Missouri congressman's comment that he opposes abortion in most cases of rape because women rarely become pregnant during a "legitimate rape." Though Rep. Todd Akin, a Republican who is...
Tags: Criminals, U.S. Senate, Sexual Assault, Rape, Greater Baltimore Medical Center
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Is Akin really out of the Republican mainstream?
Missouri is a long way from Maryland, so residents can be forgiven for never having heard of Rep. Todd Akin prior to this week. But when the socially conservative Republican Senate candidate suggested that the victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Karl Rove, Incest, Annapolis, Paul Ryan
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Akin rape comments 'offensive and wrong,' Bartlett says
Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett repudiated fellow Republican Rep. Todd Akin’s comments on rape Tuesday, while his campaign manager called an attempt by Maryland Democrats to tie Bartlett to the controversy “disgusting.” Akin, the GOP nominee...Tags: David Sloan, U.S. Senate, Incest, Johns Hopkins University, Abortion Issue
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Bartlett to skip GOP convention
Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett has become the latest incumbent in Congress to announce he will skip his party's national convention this year to spend time campaigning for reelection, drawing a contrast with other state Republicans as well as his Democratic...Tags: Ron Paul, Bartlett, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Newt Gingrich, Joe Walsh
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Attachment legislating: Corporate cash and the GOP
If money is the mother's milk of politics, then America's big corporations are Big Mama, and Big Baby is the Republican Party suckling at the enormous bosom of business. Democrats, meanwhile, are abandoned brats scrounging for nourishment wherever they...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court, David Horsey
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