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Bill aims to ban toy-like lighters
The SwampA display of novelty lighters sits on the counter at a Skokie, Ill. Marathon gas station, which sells lighters that have lights on them along with other toy-like designs, July 17, 2007. (Chicago Tribune Photo By David Trotman-Wilkins) by......Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Environmental Pollution, Susan Collins, Skokie, Toy Industry
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Bailout (of rum, arrows, race tracks)
The Swampby Frank James What do rum, motorsport race tracks and wooden arrows used by kids all have in common? The financial markets bailout bill, that's what. Taxpayers for Common Sense has compiled a handy list of what it called the......Tags: United Technologies Corporation, Harley-Davidson Inc., State Budgets, Inventories, Movies
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Democrats seek corporate disclosure
The Swampby Kim Geiger and Clement Tan A group of Democratic senators today proposed a legislative solution to the controversial Supreme Court ruling that allows unlimited corporate spending on advertising and other efforts to influence election campaigns. The...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Finance, Censorship, Barack Obama, Evan Bayh
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Will Dems get a brake-free Senate?
The Swampby Frank James One of the biggest question marks right now about what will happen on Election Day is whether Democrats will gain a filibuster-proof Senate by reaching 60 votes. The filibuster, of course, is the way that the Senate......Tags: Executive Branch, Mark Udall, Joe Lieberman, Barack Obama, White House
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Utah GOP bids bye to Bennett
The SwampSen. Robert F. Bennett becomes emotional Saturday while thanking volunteers after his re-election bid was thwarted at a state nominating convention. (Scott C. Wilson/AP) by Mark Z. Barabak SALT LAKE CITY--Utah Sen. Robert F. Bennett was defeated...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Barack Obama, Republican National Conventions, Activism, Republican Party
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Blame game starts in spill hearings
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley The blood, er, oil is already flying this morning in Senate hearings into the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill - and the oil company executives haven't even testified yet. Democrats and Republicans alike on the Senate......Tags: Jeff Bingaman, Companies and Corporations, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Jeff Sessions
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Change is hard to come by in Senate
The Swampby Lisa Mascaro Just when the Senate was poised to change an arcane rule that let even a single senator paralyze the entire chamber, a single senator stood up and invoked another arcane rule to derail the whole thing. It......Tags: San Francisco, Heads of State, Thomas Mann, Government, Harry Reid
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Love abounds at Interior hearing
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley For all the fire they can spit on C-SPAN, ranting about procedure or policy, the truth is that most United States senators are exceedingly polite to one another in public. Friendly, often. Every once in a while......Tags: Energy Resources, Barack Obama, Global Change, Nature, Government
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Panetta at CIA: 'Clean break from past'
The Swampby Rebecca Cole and updated as hearing continued and ended The Senate Intelligence Committee has taken up the nomination of Leon Panetta, former congressman from California and onetime chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, for director of the.....Tags: Police Investigations, Barack Obama, White House, Abusive Behavior, Government
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Bonus limits in stimulus: Tougher, or less tough?
Spin CycleChris Dodd, the Senate banking chairman who presided over the great collapse and got his own cut-rate mortgage but now portrays himself as the great reformer, gets big play this morning in both the NYT and the WashPost for......Tags: Government, National Government, Upper House, Parliament, Barack Obama
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Obama's 'change:' Big things and now
The Swampby Janet Hook Just a month into his presidency, Barack Obama is calling for the most dramatic change in decades in the way the country tackles its most pressing problems - from the economy and healthcare to energy, education and......Tags: State Budgets, Barack Obama, White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Heads of State
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Another stimulus looks unlikely
The Swampby Frank James One reason it was important for the recently passed economic stimulus to be as large as possible was because of the political reality that it would be difficult to get another major stimulus through Congress. The amounts......Tags: National Government, Government, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi
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