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U.S. debt limit resets at higher level, budget impasse grinds on
Reuters* New debt limit reset at $16.7 trillion * No movement seen in Congress on budget talks By David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. government added $306 billion in new debt during a four-month suspension of the federal borrowing limit, the...Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Paul Ryan, Jack Lew, Republican Party
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B Reactor bill passes Senate committee
Tri-City HeraldHanford's B Reactor is another step closer to being part of a new national park. Members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources stepped off the Senate floor Thursday afternoon for a vote by voice approving a bill creating the...Tags: Doc Hastings, Politics, Science and Technology, Natural Resource Industry, Maria Cantwell
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GOP senators on committee target three labor nominees from Buffalo
The Buffalo NewsThree men from Buffalo, one absent and two present, were the targets of grilling from Republicans on a Senate committee Thursday over matters that sometimes seemed personal but in the end are profound for every working person in America. The absent...Tags: Politics, Lawyers, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Tom Harkin, Lamar Alexander
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Committee approves DOE budget request
Tri-City HeraldA Department of Energy request that could prevent furloughs at the Hanford vitrification plant has received the final congressional committee approval it needed. Changes in funding levels requested by DOE still must go through an administrative...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Doc Hastings, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, Environmental Issues
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Army anti-sex assault coordinator accused of sex crimes
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant who worked as a sexual assault prevention coordinator at Fort Hood, Texas, has been accused of sex crimes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the second man in the military's anti-sexual assault effort to be...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army, Sexual Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, Rape
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EDITORIAL: Take steps to stop military sex abuse
Seattle TimesA MILITARY culture that allows rampant sexual abuse to persist won't change on its own. Congress must take immediate steps to protect American service members from this shameful epidemic. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced 3,374...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, U.S. Air Force, Sex Crimes, Abusive Behavior
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Commission touted to bridge gap between military, civilians
Seattle TimesAs a decorated Vietnam veteran, Karl Marlantes understands the grim costs of America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as anyone: at least 6,699 U.S. military personnel dead, more than 50,000 wounded and $2 trillion in borrowed spending, with the...Tags: U.S. Military, U.S. Navy, Politics, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Jim McDermott
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DOE pushes to prevent vit plant furloughs
Tri-City HeraldCongressional committees have begun considering a Department of Energy request that could prevent furloughs at the Hanford vitrification plant and help meet a key legal deadline for emptying underground waste tanks. DOE's reprogramming request would...Tags: Doc Hastings, Washington, DC, Environmental Issues, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Career and Workplace
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: Politics, NBC (tv network), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Washington, DC, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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EDITORIAL: Online-sales tax a matter of retail fairness
Seattle TimesTHE apparent enthusiasm in the U.S. Senate for the Marketplace Fairness Act, which passed on Monday 67-27, obscures the difficulty of getting a meaningful tax-reform bill through a gridlocked Congress. The act simply requires online retailers to collect...Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Politics, Jaime Herrera, Parties and Movements
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McCaskill blocks promotion amid furor over military sexual assaults
St. Louis Post-DispatchSen. Claire McCaskill stepped up her drive to curb sexual assaults in the military on Tuesday, a day in which the Pentagon admitted to a worsening problem and President Barack Obama threatened attackers with dishonorable discharge. The Missouri senator'...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Prosecution, U.S. Military, Politics, Claire McCaskill
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FDA lowers age for buyers of Plan B pill to 15
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise twist to the decade-plus effort to ease access to morning-after pills, the government is lowering the age limit to 15 for one brand — Plan B One-Step — and will let it be sold over the counter. Today,...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC, Kathleen Sebelius, Family Planning, Health Treatments
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May 8, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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