Let’s assume Senate Democrats can work with their Republican colleagues to pull off a six-month stopgap measure to keep the federal government operating past Oct. 1. If they kick that can down that road, Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois...
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Sen. Olympia Snowe in Washington, DC.
Snowe Voices Frustration With Congress’ Early Recess Idea
CR: Discontent on the Right
There are rumblings from the right as the House prepares to vote on the six-month continuing resolution. Some members of the Republican Study Committee, including the group’s chairman, Jim Jordan, are sounding unenthusiastic as they pick through the written details...
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Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Tech Chief Reaches out Via Twitter and Bafflement Ensues
Updated 5:50 p.m. adding FCC response Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, a promoter of U.S. technology, took to Twitter to field questions today and generated bafflement as followers couldn’t see his replies. “Maybe #askjulius should be #whereisjulius,” tweeted Katy Bachman, Washington bureau chief...
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Be Careful What You Tweet: Osama? Obama?
This afternoon Grover Norquist had a slip of the tongue — or rather, finger. Was it a Freudian slip by the president of Americans for Tax Reform? Or just a simple mistake. You decide. Just before 3 p.m., Norquist – known for the...
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Representative Paul Ryan, Republican vice presidential candidate, at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa.
Ryan Prepares Television Ads for House Campaign
Paul Ryan would rather be vice president than a congressman. Fortunately for him, Wisconsin law allows him to seek both offices at once. Ryan’s U.S. House campaign is going up with television ads in his district, according to a contract with Milwaukee’s...
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Protestors demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medical and Medicare outside San Francisco city hall.
Medicaid Would Lose $1.26 Trillion Under Romney’s Block Grant
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, says his plan to block-grant Medicaid would free governors from obtrusive federal rules on how they deliver health care to the poor. It would also cost states and health providers such as nursing homes...
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U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, land to pick-up soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division while conducting an air assault in preparation for the Week of Eagles, at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Sequestration Derangement Syndrome Hits Washington
A new psychological disorder is afflicting Washington: sequestration derangement syndrome. Symptoms for members of Congress include deep remorse for voting for last year’s Budget Control Act and the sin of forcing $110 billion in automatic cuts to government spending on...
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A farmer with her pigs in Shueng Shui, Hong Kong.
Republicans Question EPA Spending on Jakarta’s Air, China’s Cows
The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t just guarding American land, air and water, it’s looking out for Jakarta’s air. House Republicans raised the issue at a hearing today where they said the agency spent more than $21 million on projects such...
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U.S. Army SFC. Roy Hibbetts of Civil Military Operations Team, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4-73rd Cavalry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, secures the outside of a project site where a school is being built in Zharay District, Kandahar Province on July 28, 2012.
Romney’s ‘Make-Up’ Speech to National Guard Gathering
Mitt Romney has been taking a daily dose of guff for not making any mention in his Republican National Convention speech of the protracted U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Democrats also have piled on for his failure in...
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Shoppers on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
Democrats and Republicans Read Economic News Differently
Here’s one more difference between Democrats and Republicans: They’re viewing recent economic news through different prisms. A poll out today by the Pew Research Center found that just 15 percent of Democrats say the news they’re hearing about the economy...
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