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Senators protest sequester cuts, shutdown threat looms
WASHINGTON — It was bound to happen: As the sequester budget cuts are felt around the country, lawmakers are having second thoughts — and trying to tinker with them in a way that could lead to a full-scale government shutdown. Senators...Tags: Mark Pryor, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, Elections, Tom Coburn
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Congress works on budget for both 2013 and future
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is finally cleaning up its unfinished budget business for the long-underway 2013 budget year with a bipartisan government-wide funding bill, even as the combatants in the House and Senate gear up for votes this week on...
Tags: Government, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, Elections, Parties and Movements
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Backers of American Latino national museum push bill in Congress
Congressional backers of a proposed Smithsonian-affiliated museum devoted to the history and culture of American Latinos didn't succeed the first time around, so they're trying again. The bipartisan bills resubmitted Friday in the U.S. House and...
Tags: Government, Museums, U.S. Congress, National Government, Politics
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Obama's economic policies will destroy the country
Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Paul Ryan
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Piling on more debt
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats in the US Senate have broken the law for four years by not passing a budget. This is the height of criminal gross negligence as US debt passes $16.5 trillion and approaches $17 trillion, as 46 cents of...Tags: Elections, Patty Murray, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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Rothfus doubts Congress will stop sequestration
staff writer, @damichellegRepublican U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus said he is against the automatic cuts that will come as part of sequestration, but he is not sure Congress will act in time to avoid them. Rothfus, who was in the 12th Congressional District this week, said Congress...Tags: Government, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, National Government
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Former lawmaker says farmers are important to the world
Farmers will need to feed nine billion people worldwide by 2050, so it's up to the Farmers Union to continue to lead the push for sustainable agriculture and healthy environmental policy. That was the message that former U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie...Tags: Groton, U.S. Congress, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Raven Industries Incorporated, John Boehner
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Fixing the filibuster
The filibuster is back in the news, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's nearly 13-hour talkathon on U.S. drone policy last week. Putting aside the merits of Mr. Paul's national security views, his feat of endurance was in the best tradition of the Senate. He...Tags: University of Baltimore, Government, U.S. Congress, National Government, Dick Cheney
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Democrats face challenging Senate landscape
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now face a challenging terrain as they look to hold onto their Senate majority in 2014 and prevent Republicans from gaining full control of Congress during President...Tags: John D. Rockefeller IV, Government, U.S. Congress, Tim Johnson, Executive Branch
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Meat inspector furlough looms
LAS VEGAS - Sequestration could force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough up to 6,000 meat inspectors for up to two weeks, plunging the meat industry into chaos and raising consumer prices, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Feb. 7 in...Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumer Goods Industries, Tom Vilsack, Career and Workplace
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'They deserve a vote' can be more than rhetoric
State of the Union addresses are traditionally laundry lists of policy proposals. U.S. President Barack Obama's started that way, but it ended as the most emotional speech before a joint session of Congress in modern memory. The theatrics of the event...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress, Elections, Interior Policy, Hadiya Pendleton
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Lugar still speaking his own mind
Politicians on the Far Right, seeking to turn the Republican Party into an uncompromising, unquestioning cause in their own image, sought to silence Dick Lugar's voice of moderation, promising that Indiana still would send a Republican to the Senate....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, Radio, Entertainment, Sharron E. Angle
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Feb 18, 2013
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Feb 18, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
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