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Schock won't seek GOP nod for Illinois governor
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock has opted to bypass a run for the Republican Illinois governor nomination and instead will seek a fourth term in Congress next year, a top aide said Thursday. Schock, 31, from Peoria, ultimately decided he could do more good...Tags: Donald A Manzullo, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on Ethics, Kirk W Dillard
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Aaron Schock won't seek GOP nod for governor
Tribune reporterU.S. Rep. Aaron Schock has opted to bypass a run for the Republican Illinois governor nomination and instead will seek a fourth term in Congress next year, a top aide said Thursday. Schock, 31, from Peoria, ultimately decided he could do more good...Tags: Donald A Manzullo, Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on Ethics, Kirk W Dillard, Executive Branch
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Fight Club on the Hill
WASHINGTON -- House conservatives met Wednesday for the latest installment of their "Conversations with Conservatives" luncheon series, but they took their places on the dais without sampling the Chick-fil-A sandwiches and nuggets on offer. These days,...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, Mick Mulvaney, Justin Amash, Republican Party, Elections
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Republican effort to rebrand the party takes a hit
WASHINGTON — As the new Congress began this year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia sought to redefine the Republican Party as focused on "making life work" for ordinary Americans. Surveys showed that the public had tired of the...
Tags: White House, American Enterprise Institute, Tea Party Movement, Washington, DC, Republican Party
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Obama calls for funding for brain science initiative
WASHINGTON – President Obama is asking Congress to approve $110 million in new spending for research on the human brain, an investment he said would benefit not just science but the economy. “Ideas are what power our economy,” Obama...
Tags: Washington, DC, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Congress, National Institutes of Health, Medical Research
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Republicans rediscover tolerance
WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers put the finishing touches on an immigration deal, veteran Rep. Don Young decided this would be a good time to come out with an immigration plan of his own. His involves calling Latino immigrants "wetbacks." For Young, now in...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Richard Mourdock, MSNBC (tv network), Republican Party, Reince Priebus
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, Philosophy, Career and Workplace, Strikes
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Could TV have a done a poorer job of covering sequester?
The Baltimore SunThere is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester. Television news has been polarizing, sensational and mostly focused on personality rather than the policy behind the $85 billion in federal spending cuts...Tags: White House, Richard Nixon, Fox News Channel (tv network), Money and Monetary Policy, MSNBC (tv network)
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Sequestration? Not Scary. Try Fiscal Death Match
The Hartford CourantI'm trying really hard to get all worked up over sequestration, but it ain't taking. Congress has been no help. They called it a weekend on Thursday and went home the day before the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts was scheduled to begin....Tags: White House, Republican Party, Prada, Fiscal Cliff, Bill Clinton
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Carson tapped to speak at major conservative political conference
Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson will speak at a prominent conservative political rally next month, alongside the likes of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, the American Conservative Union said...
Tags: Carly Fiorina, Executive Branch, Al Groh, Politics, Barack Obama
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Boehner says Obama using military as 'props' in sequester fight
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said President Obama was using the nation’s armed forces as a “campaign prop” when he should be working with his party’s leaders in the Senate to avoid across-the-board spending cuts set to take...
Tags: John Boehner, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Elections, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: White House, Head Start, Air Transportation Delays, Republican Party, National Security
Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 2, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mar 3, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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