Updated at 9 am EST, March 7 The food, at least, must have been good. The Republicans who dined with President Barack Obama tonight were holding thumbs up on their way out of the Jefferson Hotel this evening. Sen. John...
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Senator John McCain flashes the thumb-up when asked by a reporter about how the meeting went outside the Jefferson Hotel following a dinner with President Barack Obama and a group of fellow Republican senators on March 6, 2013 in Washington.
Obama’s Republican Table: Thumbs Up — President Picks Up the Tab
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Rocky, a mechanical "robo-squirrel," at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., on the campus.
McConnell: Deficit Robo-Squirrely
Another day, another “squirrely” Senate floor speech. With time running out to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, the Senate is hard at work discussing Robo-squirrel. Rhetoric on both sides of the aisle is heating up in the Senate, where Majority...
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Caviar, RoboSquirrel: Gov’t ‘Wastebook’
Sen. Tom Coburn is highlighting the nation’s fiscal follies with his annual “Wastebook 2012,” out today. In it, the Oklahoma Republican picks the 100 most wasteful and/or ridiculous programs funded by taxpayer dollars, adding up to over $18 billion. In addition...
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T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital LLC.
Pickens: Money Misspent on Senate
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says he’s “fed up” with Washington.He recalls one of his greatest victories as once getting Republican Senator Tom Coburn to sign off on an energy proposal that included a natural gas user-fee. “He wouldn’t pay a...
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