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Boxing Obama in
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who...Tags: Richard Nixon, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, White House, Justice System
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Scandal creates questions about IRS' role in enforcing health care law
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The blossoming IRS scandal over the targeting of conservative groups is provoking new scrutiny and terse questions about the agency's role in shaping and implementing the controversial national health care law, with the biggest changes set to...Tags: Labor Legislation, Taxation, Crime, Law and Justice, Health Insurance Cost, Punishment
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Ted Cruz, White House, Republican Party, Orrin Hatch
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Immigration bill gets Senate boost; House effort teetering
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of U.S. immigration reform are hoping that the smooth and drama-free passage of their legislation through a Senate committee - a departure from almost everything that has happened in Congress over the past four years -...Tags: Ted Cruz, White House, Raul Labrador, Mary L. Landrieu, Orrin Hatch
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Apple,former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight
ReutersBy Andy Sullivan, Gabriel Debenedetti and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - For years, Apple Inc kept a low profile in Washington as it grew into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the iPad maker has taken the lead, perhaps...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Lobbying, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Apple, former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight
ReutersBy Andy Sullivan, Gabriel Debenedetti and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, Apple Inc kept a low profile in Washington as it grew into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the iPad maker has taken the lead, perhaps...Tags: Science and Technology, Lobbying, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Google Inc., White House
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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: Ted Cruz, Demographics, Same-Sex Marriage, White House, Republican Party
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Bonds, Politics, Ron Paul, Michael Bloomberg, American Red Cross
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Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he’ll seek further changes to Senate rules...Tags: Immigration, Politics, Washington, DC, Harry Reid, Elections
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Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...Tags: Labor Legislation, Ted Cruz, Lobbying, White House, Republican Party
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...
Tags: John Barrow, Same-Sex Marriage, Breast Cancer, John McCain, Mary L. Landrieu
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Eric Holder, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, White House
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