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Can Rand Paul single-handedly cause the Patriot Act to lapse?
In a move that should be getting more notice this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has thrown down the gauntlet over the renewal of the Patriot Act, provisions of which would expire Friday if not extended.
Paul has offered several "controversial" amendments...Tags: Rand Paul, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, Laws, Terrorism
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One year later, time to toss Obama health care
The country recently marked a sad anniversary. It has been one year since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ramrodded President Obama's health care reform legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate against the will and wishes of the...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform (2009), U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost
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Lying in defense of extremist views is no virtue
"If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood. And that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." — Sen. Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, April 8, 2011 "[The statistic Mr. Kyl used] was not intended to be a factual...Tags: Jan Brewer, Abortion Issue, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
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One budget battle down, next one brewing
Now that Congress has gotten past the fight over a threatened government shutdown, it's moving on to the next trench warfare on deficit reduction, with more clouds of calamitous stalemate hanging over it. Just as in that first fight, House Speaker John...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Government, Joe Biden, Tea Party Movement
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Democrats expand majorities; several races remain undecided
Los Angeles TimesDespite his conviction last month on corruption charges, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the nation's longest-serving Republican senator, clung tenuously to his seat yesterday as congressional Democrats exulted in their election gains elsewhere around the...Tags: Ted Stevens, Government, George W. Bush, Executive Branch, Regional Elections
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Automakers look to Obama for aid
Associated PressDetroit automakers and their allies in Congress said yesterday that Barack Obama's victory could help U.S. automakers line up federal funding needed for them to survive the current economic slump. Obama made it clear during his campaign that he...Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, George W. Bush, Carl Levin
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President says he won't prejudge Rove
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he would not judge the role that senior aide Karl Rove might have played in revealing the identity of a CIA agent until a federal criminal investigator had finished his work. Noting the continuing...Tags: George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency, Karl Rove, Scott McClellan, Dick Cheney
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Bush's second chance
Sun reporterWASHINGTON // President Bush, facing high political stakes and growing pressure from all sides over replacing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, is considering a number of women and minority judges to fill her seat, say activists and political strategists....Tags: George W. Bush, Clarence Thomas, Ronald Reagan, Activism, Democratic Party
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Miers chosen for court
Sun reporterWashington // President Bush named his trusted White House counsel Harriet E. Miers, a Texas native with no experience as a judge, to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, sparking an outcry among conservative activists who had hoped...Tags: Abortion Issue, Barbara A. Mikulski, Al Gore, Government, George W. Bush
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Democrats spin conspiracy theory around Rove
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - A spy outed. A reporter jailed. And now, a White House operative fingered. Democrats couldn't have spun a more intriguing conspiracy theory around Karl Rove, President Bush's political guru and top adviser, if they'd tried. As Rove...Tags: Government, International Military Interventions, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Central Intelligence Agency
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Loyalty is key in choice of Miers
Sun reporterWASHINGTON // When it comes to President Bush's latest Supreme Court pick, think Condi, not Cheney. Bush's surprise choice of Harriet E. Miers prompted commentators to note that she got her nomination in the way Vice President Dick Cheney got his. Both...Tags: Government, Activism, George W. Bush, Executive Branch, Diplomacy
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