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Rep. Benishek: Hopeful for deal to avoid sequestration funding cuts but skeptical
Staff WriterPETOSKEY, Mich. — Congress is gearing up for another down-to-the-wire budget crisis this week with mandatory $1.2 trillion cuts to governmental spending set to take effect March 1. But, despite being discouraged, second-term Congressman Dan...Tags: Media Industry, Credit and Debt, Agriculture, Social Media, YouTube
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Senate panel approves Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Tuesday's vote broke...
Tags: Republican Party, Iran, John Brennan, State of the Union Address, Politics
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Hagel approved by Senate committee in party-line vote
WASHINGTON -- After a sometimes contentious debate, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted on party lines and narrowly approved the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of Defense, moving the bitter fight over President Obama’s...
Tags: Ted Cruz, White House, Bill Nelson, U.S. Department of Defense, Mike Johanns
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Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican questioned the former GOP senator's truthfulness...
Tags: Bill Nelson, Republican Party, Iran, Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen
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Republicans maintain filibuster threat ahead of Hagel vote
WASHINGTON – On the eve of a Senate committee vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, a group of Republican senators continued Monday to threaten what would be a historic filibuster for a Cabinet appointment despite warnings...Tags: George W. Bush, White House, U.S. Department of Defense, Republican Party, Orrin Hatch
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Hagel hearings: Is Israel more important than Afghanistan?
This post has been corrected, as indicated below. Although they aren’t infallible, “word clouds” -- graphic representations of the frequency with which certain words occur in a text -- can be instructive. Yousef Munayyer of the...
Tags: Iran, Afghanistan, Politics, Chuck Hagel, Judaism
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Justice System, Barbara A. Mikulski, Crime, Law and Justice, John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Congress
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Hagel defends record, spars with critics in Senate hearing
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON -- Making his first public comments after his nomination to lead the Pentagon, former Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he stood by his record but also urged senators to look beyond controversial votes and statements he has made, which critics...Tags: Hamas, Republican Party, Iran, John Brennan, Nuclear Policy
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Chuck Hagel, an antiwar secretary of Defense
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Defense, wasn’t the most articulate candidate ever to appear before a Senate committee on Thursday. Hagel fumbled his way through questions about policy and his own past...
Tags: George W. Bush, Elections, U.S. Department of Defense, Iran, Afghanistan
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Hagel to stress opposition to a nuclear Iran in Senate testimony
WASHINGTON -- President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel, will stress at his confirmation hearing Thursday that he opposes letting Iran acquire nuclear weapons and will focus on developing military options to set...
Tags: George W. Bush, White House, Elections, U.S. Department of Defense, Republican Party
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Sheldon Whitehouse, Bill Nelson, Barbara A. Mikulski, Republican Party, Patrick Leahy
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Inauguration 2013: The orderly transition of Jay-Z and Paul Ryan
In the weeks after President Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, when I was a young reporter at the Washington Post, I was assigned to cover a luncheon on Capitol Hill honoring Patricia Derian, Carter’s assistant secretary of...Tags: Beyonce, John Boehner, The Washington Post, Elections, Civil Rights
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