The Washington Monument stands for a lot of things. In this case, in the aftermath of a rare earthquake, the glacial pace of bureaucracy? It has been almost a year and four months since a temblor with a magnitude of...
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An engineer removes loose stones from the Washington Monument as two U.S. Park Police officers pass.
Washington Monument: Contracted for Repairs 16 Months After Quake
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Fred Malek
Malek’s Study Cites Labor Bureau Once Suspected of `Cabal’
Putting out think tank studies to make a partisan point is a decades-long tradition in Washington. One that came out last week offered a dose of irony to go with its claim that the Environmental Protection Agency is imposing an...
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A collage of campaign buttons hangs on the wall while volunteers call potential voters to re-elect President Barack Obama at the campaign's Field Office in Chicago.
Obama’s Favorite 389,821 Voters
When all the votes from the Nov. 6 presidential election are counted — they’re still tallying ballots in California and New York — President Barack Obama will have beaten Republican challenger Mitt Romney by close to 5 million votes. Yet...
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Sen.-elect Tim Kaine, center, arrives at a freshman Senators luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13, 2012.
Kaine Forms ‘Common Ground PAC’
Senator-elect Tim Kaine of Virginia is sponsoring a political action committee he’s calling ‘“Common Ground PAC.” As in the common ground that the former Democratic governor said he would seek in a Congress divided over issues including the so-called fiscal...
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U.S. Senator-elect Tim Kaine speaks to his supporters after winning the Virginia U.S. Senate seat, on Nov. 6, 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.
Adelson’s Late $2.5 Million Couldn’t Stop Kaine’s Virginia Win
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson gave $2.5 million in the waning days of the Nov. 6 election to a Republican super-political action committee that was on the losing side of a key U.S. Senate race in Virginia. The super-PAC, Independence Virginia,...
Read more »Clinton: Obama `Has Done a Good Job with a Bad Hand’
In the end, it took Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, to help fulfill the narrative that President Barack Obama has been writing since the keynote convention speech he delivered at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in...
Read more »Life in a Swing State: Get the Door
Living in a swing state — Virginia — we’ve had a lot of visitors lately. Every weekend for the past month, someone has come by the front door of the townhouse just across the river from Washington with a clipboard,...
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Supporter Annie Lin, from Salem, Va., center, wearing plastic Romney lawn signs, cheers Mitt Romney at a campaign event at Integrity Windows in Roanoke, Va., on Nov. 1, 2012.
Romney: `Five More Days’
“This is an election of consequence,” Republican Mitt Romney said today in Roanoke, at the start of a campaign day in Virginia — the first full day of a resumed campaign fight following the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy. President Barack...
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President Barack Obama takes the stage at a campaign event where he and Vice President Joe Biden spoke, at Triangle Park in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 23, 2012.
Obama’s Ohio Advantage Holds, Florida, Virginia Virtual Ties w/ Romney
President Barack Obama holds a narrow advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in Ohio, the hardest-fought state of the 2012 presidential election, according to a poll commissioned by CBS News and the New York Times. The president and Romney are statistically...
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Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator, FEMA, left, and President Barack Obama, during a news conference on Hurricane Sandy at FEMA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C.
Sandy, Safety: Campaign Consensus
Updated at 7:20 am EDT Sandy has taken a toll on the campaign one week and a day from Election Day: No Ohio for President Barack Obama today. No more Florida either. No New Hampshire for Mitt Romney on Tuesday....
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