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Rob Lowe gives White House reporters a 'West Wing' flashback
It's been seven years since the end of President Jed Bartlet's second term on the NBC drama, "The West Wing," but the memory of the series is still fresh enough that when Rob Lowe unexpectedly stepped into the real White House briefing room, the assembled...Tags: Freaks and Geeks (tv program), Friends (tv program), Gene Sperling, National Economic Council, White House
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Farm Bill cultivated in Congress
While farmers are struggling to get seeds in the ground and ranchers are moving livestock to pasture, Congress is stepping closer to piecing together the 2013 Farm Bill. Issues, some big and some small, still divide lawmakers and the process will take...Tags: Agriculture, Science and Technology, Harry Reid, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Senate approves Obama choice to head Medicare
WASHINGTON – In an unusual break in the partisan warring over healthcare, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Obama's choice to oversee the mammoth Medicare and Medicaid health programs. Marilyn Tavenner, a former hospital executive and...
Tags: Medicare, Elections, Tom Harkin, Barack Obama, Government Health Care
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In IRS and AP cases, the government crosses the line
Milwaukee Journal SentinelThe following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, May 15: ___ The developing scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department have this much in common: They reveal a rather stunning level of...Tags: Justice and Rights, The Associated Press, Orrin Hatch, Tea Party Movement, Taxation
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Federal deficit shrinks at surprising rate
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Economic Indicator, Washington, DC, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Loans
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Feedback for 5/14: Homeless, Hillary Clinton and Ken Cuccinelli
Extended stay homeless •Dennis, Newport News: Just read the Sunday paper, the story by Sarah about this lady and her six kids. Very nicely done. She covered everything you could possibly cover. I know there's going to be other installments, but I...Tags: Ken Cuccinelli, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), George Allen, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Hillary Clinton
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U.S. House to probe IRS targeting conservative groups-Cantor
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives will investigate the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups during last year's election campaign, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Friday....Tags: Internal Revenue Service
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Welcome to the 'Stop Hillary Clinton' hearing
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the most powerful woman of them all?" No doubt about it. Not Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel or Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman on the planet is former first lady, former senator from New York, former...
Tags: Elections, Oprah Winfrey, Michael G. Mullen, Mitt Romney, Christopher Stevens
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COLUMN - Benghazi and the Republican abandonment of the center
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist) By Nicholas Wapshott May 10 (Reuters) - In World War Two, the Libyan port of Benghazi was hard fought over, changing hands five times between Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the Allied forces. Seventy years on,...Tags: Mike Huckabee, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Polls, Microsoft Corporation, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Area DEA agents honored by Congress
The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.A local DEA agent, blinded and nearly killed during a drug mission in Afghanistan, and the fellow agents who rescued him have been awarded the Congressional Badge of Bravery. In October 2011, Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Joseph Piersante of the...Tags: Timothy M. Kaine, Heroin, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, Mark R. Warner
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Cantor-backed bill on comp time up for vote today
Richmond Times-DispatchA measure that would allow employees in the private sector to take paid time off, or "comp time," for overtime accrued is slated for a vote this afternoon in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, one part of a package of legislation that House...Tags: Employees, Government, Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Labor Legislation, U.S. House of Representatives
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SNAP will bite back
Two of the greatest ironies of living in the richest, strongest nation in the history of the world are how many poor people remain in 21st century America and how vulnerable-as the Boston bombings showed again-we are to evildoers. The two are not...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Congressional Budget Office, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Washington, DC, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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