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Life's work honored
Special to The TribuneWASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took turns Wednesday leading an often humorous but sometimes emotional celebration of the decades-long service of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh as the University of Notre Dame's...Tags: Justice and Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Civil Rights, Education, Martin Luther King Jr.
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House feels the heat on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...
Tags: Paul Ryan, Healthcare Policies, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice and Rights, Migration
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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Government, ABC (tv network), U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Mike Crapo, Orrin Hatch
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Social Issues, Heritage Foundation, Migration, Orrin Hatch
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Eventful week for Hesburgh
SOUTH BEND -- This is a big week for the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Hesburgh will celebrate his 96th birthday on Saturday, May 25. But two other occasions will precede that: Hesburgh is honored...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Nancy Pelosi, Religion and Belief
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Oklahoma lawmakers who opposed disaster aid now face own disaster
WASHINGTON -- When $50 billion in disaster aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy came before Congress this year, three of Oklahoma’s five representatives and both of its senators were among the "no" votes. At the time, some of the Oklahoma lawmakers...
Tags: Government, James Inhofe, Chris Christie, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Executive Branch
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Congress, the tea party and the IRS: Sentence first, then the trial
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama fired the head of the Internal Revenue Service, the first sacrificial lamb brought down after the alleged "targeting" of conservative political groups by the IRS. Mr. Obama declared, "Americans are right to be angry...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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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: ABC (tv network), U.S. Congress, This Week (tv program), Tea Party Movement, Orrin Hatch
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Debt limit resets at higher level, budget impasse grinds on
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government added $306 billion in new debt during a four-month suspension of the federal borrowing limit, the Treasury Department said on Monday, but there was no sign on Capitol Hill of any movement toward a budget compromise....Tags: Paul Ryan, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Patty Murray, Jack Lew
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Government Debt, Parties and Movements, Libya
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GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes,...
Tags: Jack Kingston, U.S. Senate, Nancy Pelosi, Parties and Movements, Benghazi
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The Seattle Times Ron Judd column
Seattle TimesThis is going to be short for me. I have a game to get to in Oklahoma City. Sorry, sore subject. Tough week for anyone who expected something other than backstabbing, deceit and avarice -- now with an added layer of vindictive-spite frosting -- from...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Microsoft Windows, National Basketball Association, David Stern, Potatoes
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