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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: Rush Limbaugh, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republican Party, Birth Control, Insurance
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House GOP shifting right, preparing for the fight
McClatchy-TribuneRep. Roy Blunt, the House of Representatives' second-ranking Republican, stepped down from his leadership post yesterday as the House GOP moved quickly to reposition itself as more conservative, unified and eager to fight Democrats in the Obama era....Tags: Ronald Reagan, Cato Corporation, Tom DeLay, George Bush, Mike Pence
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DeLay indicted in Texas probe
Sun reportersWASHINGTON // Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican whose bare-knuckled style propelled him to the top echelons of the House and drew allegations of ethical lapses, was forced to step aside as majority leader yesterday, after a Texas grand jury indicted him for...Tags: Lawyers, Political Corruption, Tom DeLay, Travis County, Punishment
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Group urges ethics probe
WASHINGTON // A watchdog group, naming what it calls "the 13 most corrupt members of Congress," is calling for ethics investigations of some of the most prominent political leaders on Capitol Hill in a report to be released tomorrow. Citizens for...Tags: William J Jefferson, Hospitals and Clinics, Renewable Energy, Political Fundraising, Charles H. Taylor
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Iraq puts Cheney in harsh spotlight
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Walking through the Capitol last week, Dick Cheney marched past the assembled journalists who hoped to question him, brushing them off in his inflection-less voice with a curt, "Good morning," before slipping behind closed doors. The vice...Tags: Diplomacy, International Military Interventions, U.S. Military, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Companies and Corporations
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Forty new U.S. citizens to be naturalized next Friday in Springfield
Follow Chris on @iamchrisbrewer and FacebookForty new U.S. citizens to be naturalized Friday in Springfield SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The U.S. District Courthouse in Springfield will host a ceremony next Friday in which 40 new U.S. citizens will be naturalized. Applicants from over 20 different...Tags: Justice System
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ACLU, Tea Party agree NDAA could take away your freedoms
A bill passed by Congress and signed into law last New Year's Eve by President Barack Obama has united the extreme right and the extreme left in this country. The American Civil Liberties Union calls it dangerous, the Tea Party calls it an attack on...
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Springfield postal plant spared from closing 'for now'
mlandis@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A sigh of relief is being breathed, for now, by postal employees and customers. The United States Postal Service has announced the city’s mail processing hub has been spared from a first round of closings being made to cut costs....Tags: Claire McCaskill, Mail Order Industry, U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery
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Traders see turbulence as U.S. data-release rules change
Reuters* Labor Dept to change data release rules in July * Media will have to use govt-issued computers * Rules effective with June employment report By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - A hush falls over financial dealing rooms on the first...Tags: News Agency, Thomson Corporation, Roseland, Labor Markets, Finance
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Jake's Take: Gridlock? Brilliant!
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- They agree on everything except how to pay for it. But that is more than enough to surgically remove the entire central nervous system from the current United States Congress. A freeze on a college loan interest rate increase, a...
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Threatened post offices could get 2-year reprieve under McCaskill plan
mlandis@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Post offices in the Ozarks that are slated for closure could get a two-year (or more) reprieve if Congress approvesa plan offered by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri. The USPS plans to close hundreds of postal facilities across...Tags: Claire McCaskill, Small Businesses, U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery
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Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON (AP)— Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-...Tags: Mitt Romney, NBC (tv network), University of Colorado at Boulder, TransCanada Corporation, Money and Monetary Policy
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