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Benghazi attack: Time for an honest accounting
Despite this season's election-year politics, the Obama administration needs to acknowledge mistakes at the U.S. consulate in Libya, where four Americans were killed last month in an apparent terrorist attack, and to learn from them. That's the only way...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Darrell E Issa, Terrorism, Hillary Clinton, Benghazi
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Cummings launches probe on voter registration challenges
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is requesting that a group whose affiliates have challenged the legitimately of thousands of voter registrations, including some in Maryland, turn over documents to demonstrate how it determines which registrations to target. In a...Tags: Democratic Party, Elijah E. Cummings, Darrell E Issa, Elections, Republican Party
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Talk of D.C. commuter tax finds opposition in Maryland
Talk in Congress of letting the District of Columbia tax commuters is getting a cool reception in Maryland. Officials in Washington say such a measure could raise $1.2 billion in new revenue — enough to fund nearly an eighth of the district's $9.65...
Tags: Darrell E Issa, New York City, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Taxation
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U.S. Justice Department hasn't visited city jail despite oversight agreement
The U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division has not visited the Baltimore City Detention Center in nearly two years, despite an agreement with the state to oversee reforms at the facility. The jail's handling of juveniles has been a continuing...Tags: Justice System, Civil Rights, Prisons, Juvenile Delinquency, Safety of Citizens
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Not so Secret Service
In the 1962 Howard Lindsay-Russel Crouse-Irving Berlin Broadway musical, "Mr. President," one of the songs in the production is titled "The Secret Service," which begins, "The Secret Service makes me nervous ..." If allegations are true that at least...
Tags: U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Values, Darrell E Issa, Wars and Interventions
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With Clemens on trial, Pettitte may again be a key figure
Seven-time Cy Young Award-winner Roger Clemens is on trial today – again – for allegedly lying to Congress, and that means the spotlight will again find Brian McNamee, the pitcher’s former personal trainer. McNamee has said he injected...
Tags: Brian McNamee, Prosecution, Cy Young Award, Trials, Witnesses
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What happens in Cartagena …
Many of us who labor in journalism inevitably have contact with U.S. Secret Service agentsand encounter men and women as devoted to their task, as serious of purpose, and as professional as any of the finest in law enforcement. So it is nothing short of...
Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Mark J. Sullivan, White House, Colombia
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Cummings seeks Wal-Mart investigation
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday requested a meeting with Wal-Mart officials in response to allegations that the retailer covered up a bribery scheme to expand its business in...Tags: Political Corruption, Elijah E. Cummings, Michael T. Duke, Corporate Crime, Bribery
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Why I demanded a voice for Sandra Fluke
Rush Limbaugh's recent, despicable three-day attack against law student Sandra Fluke cast a spotlight on a national campaign by Republicans to turn back the clock on 50 years of progress on women's health issues. But his attacks were not the first attempt...Tags: Health Treatments, Parties and Movements, Darrell E Issa, Birth Control, Rush Limbaugh
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Cummings plays role in Fluke saga
He has maintained a relatively low profile on the Sandra Fluke story, but Democratic Rep. Elijah E. Cummings played a big role in putting the Georgetown law student in the spotlight and sparking a nationwide conversation over contraceptives. Fluke, 30,...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Health Treatments, Darrell E Issa, Birth Control, Rush Limbaugh
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MLK breakfast loses county funding
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Anne Arundel County will take place as scheduled in January, but minus the customary $5,000 from the county — which stunned the planners of the event, now in its 31st year. Funding for the...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Elijah E. Cummings, Donna F. Edwards, Local Government, NAACP
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Regulator vows to improve trucking enforcement
The nation's top trucking regulators said Wednesday that their agency is moving to prevent companies that have been shut down for repeated safety violations from staying in business by changing their names, a recurring problem in the industry. The...Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, John Boehner, Consumer Goods Industries, White House, Head Injuries
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