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Tea party rallies against IRS in Washington
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The tea party is using the Internal Revenue Service scandal as a springboard to renew calls to limit or even abolish an agency it's always disliked. Thousands of tea party supporters rallied Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, cheering on proposals...Tags: Chuck Grassley, Federal Election Commission, Jim McDermott, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Human Interest
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Republican senators mull border compromise for U.S. immigration bill
Reuters* Will compromise be enough to satisfy conservatives? * Could include high-tech methods to secure border * Amendment may be offered this week By Richard Cowan and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - A small group of Republican senators...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Parties and Movements, Labor Legislation, John McCain, Justice and Rights
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Key Republican senator says still backs U.S. immigration bill
ReutersWASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he still supports a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration, but reiterated that he wants its stipulations on border security to be tightened in order for the legislation to win...Tags: Migration, Crime, Law and Justice, State of the Union Address, National Security, Labor Legislation
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Importante senador republicano dice aún apoya ley reforma inmigratoria EEUU
ReutersWASHINGTON, 16 jun (Reuters) - El senador republicano Marco Rubio dijo el domingo que aún respalda un proyecto de ley para modernizar el sistema de inmigración de Estados Unidos, pero reiteró que quiere que sus estipulaciones sobre seguridad fronteriza...Tags: State of the Union Address, Barack Obama
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Jeb Bush tells ABC: Parents split on 2016 run
Staff writerUPDATED: In an interview with ABC's "This Week," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says his parents are divided on whether he should run for president in 2016. "I think we've got a split ballot amongst the Bush senior family. Pretty sure that's the...Tags: National Security Agency, State of the Union Address, Luis Gutierrez, CNN (tv network), Mike J. Rogers
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Column: The 'secrecy industrial complex'
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - An odd thing is happening in the world's self-declared pinnacle of democracy. No one, except a handful of elected officials and an army of contractors, is allowed to know how America's surveillance leviathan works. For the last two...Tags: National Security Agency, Dianne Feinstein, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense, Edward Snowden
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NSA contract analyst says he leaked surveillance documents
WASHINGTON — Calling America's spying capabilities "horrifying," a 29-year-old former CIA employee revealed himself Sunday as the primary source of unauthorized disclosures of highly classified U.S. telephone and Internet surveillance systems that...Tags: National Security Agency, PRISM (surveillance program), Dianne Feinstein, State of the Union Address, Government
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NSA contractor risks steep jail time for data leak
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security, has revealed his own identity. He risked decades in jail for...
Tags: Prisons, National Security Agency, Extradition, Newspaper and Magazine, Dianne Feinstein
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U.S. senator calls for reopening of the Patriot Act
ReutersBy Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - A Democratic senator called on Sunday for a reopening of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the post-Sept. 11, 2001, law that gave intelligence agencies broader powers of data surveillance, after disclosures the...Tags: Google Inc., National Security Agency, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Dianne Feinstein
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'Homeland' producers, Rand Paul on ABC's 'This Week'
Staff writerUPDATED: This weekend on the Sunday morning talk circuit: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin will be a guest on CBS'"Face the Nation" at 10:30 a.m. on WKMG-Channel 6. Discussing the national government's response to disasters will be Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.,...Tags: Executive Branch, Dick Durbin, Mary Fallin, State of the Union Address, Tom Coburn
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'Homeland' preview: Where's Brody?
Staff writerHere's something unusual from a Sunday morning news show: A preview of one of TV's biggest dramas. On ABC's "This Week" this weekend, Martha Raddatz got a "Homeland" season preview from executive producer Alex Gansa. He spoke from North Carolina,...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Indianapolis 500, ABC (tv network), Claire Danes
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White House says it knew of IRS investigation a month ago
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The White House acknowledged Monday that senior aides to President Barack Obama knew a month ago that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups, expanding on previous administration statements about who in the White House...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Jay Carney, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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