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Rights advocates urge caution on lifting sanctions after violence in Myanmar
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Human rights groups are growing increasingly concerned over escalating violence in Myanmar after Buddhist mobs, including monks, took to the streets this week, burning mosques and schools and killing a Muslim man before finally being...Tags: Thein Sein, Burma, Buddhism, Justice and Rights, Religion and Belief
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Ehrlich distorts the facts about Obamacare
As is often his wont, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column on Obamacare provided a very one-sided narrative using gross generalizations and failing to provide context for his arguments ("Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home," May 26). Mr....
Tags: Republican Party, Government Debt, Heritage Foundation, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama
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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: Parties and Movements, Washington, DC, White House, Justice System, Internal Revenue Service
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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: Insurance, Internal Revenue Service, Tea Party Movement, Taxation, Employment Opportunities
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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: Productivity, Lindsey O. Graham, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Heritage Foundation
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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: Lindsey O. Graham, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Justice and Rights, Marco Rubio
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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: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Justice and Rights, Marco Rubio, Lobbying
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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: George W. Bush, Jeff Merkley, Washington, DC, Elections, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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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, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tea Party Movement, American Red Cross, Mitt Romney
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Bill Clinton, White House, Andrew P Harris
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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: Washington, DC, CBS Corp., Justice System, White House, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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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: Paul C. Broun, Mark Begich, Mike Rounds, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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