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GOP candidates in close races disavow rape remark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark — that if rape leads to pregnancy it's "something God intended" —...
Tags: Dean Heller, Politics, Shelley Berkley, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Walsh
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Obama promotes positive signs in housing market
WASHINGTON — Eager to take note of signs of recovery, President Obama is drawing attention to improvements in the housing industry while keeping up pressure on Republicans to back policies the White House says would help struggling homeowners...Tags: White House, Parties and Movements, Politics, Washington, DC, Elections
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War of words: Romney rages against military cuts; Obama talking jobs
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama pledged to create many more jobs and "make the middle class secure again" in a campaign-closing appeal on Thursday — more than five weeks before Election Day — to voters already casting...
Tags: Defense, Politics, American Legion, Washington, DC, Coal
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Speech, border security vote are Giffords' final acts in Congress
In a part homecoming and part farewell, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is expected to return to the House chamber for President Obama's State of the Union speech as she bows out of public life to focus on her recovery. The Arizona Democrat has left an indelible...Tags: Politics, Raul Grijalva, Elections, Republican Party, Injuries and Wounds
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Defiant Obama challenges Congress on sticky issues
CNNWashington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama launches a three-day swing through key election states Wednesday after declaring in what could be his final State of the Union address that the nation was strengthening but must confront the defining issue of...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Energy Resources, Politics, CNN (tv network), Environmental Issues
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Giffords resigns House seat to focus on recovery
WASHINGTON (AP)— In a body occasionally known for untoward exits, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood among cheering, crying colleagues to say goodbye Wednesday, over a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin.
Giffords had come to the...Tags: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Cantor, Politics, Washington, DC
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Toomey's supercommittee plan still embraced by GOP
Pennsylvania Ave.With a week left until the Nov. 23 deadline for the supercommittee to act, congressional Republicans continue to coalesce around Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey and his plan to lower income tax rates and raise revenue by reducing or eliminating some tax...... -
Gabrielle Giffords: Poignant meetings mark final days in office
Nation NowCongresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head during a January 2011 attack, announced Sunday that she plans to resign this week to focus on her recovery. On Monday, she finished the meeting with constituents that was cut short last year.... -
Fight continues in Washington
In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an unprecedented government default and Senate Democrats scuttled it less than two hours later in hopes of a better deal....Tags: Politics, Harry Reid, Financial Markets, Republican Party, Arizona
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Former Bush surgeon general to seek Arizona Senate seat
Richard Carmona, who served as U.S. surgeon general in George W. Bush's administration, announced Thursday that he will run as a Democrat for Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat.
Carmona, who turns 62 this month, said in a statement that Washington is broken...Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, George W. Bush, Jon Kyl, Republican Party
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Republicans dodge farm subsidy cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have maneuvered to quietly prevent a bill that makes large cuts in domestic and international food programs from chipping away at federal farm subsidies. The GOP move to head off $167 million in cuts in direct government...Tags: Science and Technology, Massachusetts, Washington, DC, Personal Income, Brazil
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Grand Canyon mining ban moves forward
GreenspaceThe Obama administration moved closer to adopting a 20-year ban on new mining claims on 1 million acres of land around the Grand Canyon by issuing the final environmental impact statement analyzing potential consequences of the prohibition. The ban would....
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