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Many area residents still dissatisfied with Congress
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comMembers of The House of Representatives worked past 11 p.m. Tuesday night to pass legislation to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” but many area residents still remained unsatisfied with Congress on Wednesday. “I think what we did was just a...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Party, Politics, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland), Unemployment Benefits
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Despite deal, federal taxes to rise for most Americans
Associated PressWhile the tax package that Congress passed New Year’s Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013. That’s because the legislation did nothing to...Tags: Healthcare Laws, Republican Party, Small Businesses, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cliff avoided; Congress staves off income tax hikes for middle class
Associated PressPast its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that...Tags: Politics, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff, John Campbell
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$5 million paid to Iraqis over Abu Ghraib
A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007....
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Lawyers, Laws, CACI International Incorporated, National Government
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Cliff averted, it's on to the next fiscal crisis
Associated PressOnward to the next fiscal crisis. Actually, several of them, potentially. The New Year’s Day deal averting the “fiscal cliff” lays the groundwork for more combustible struggles in Washington over taxes, spending and debt in the next...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Tea Party Movement, Medicare, Parties and Movements
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W.Va. GOP to make Voter ID an issue in 2013
Armed with their largest share of the House of Delegates in decades, West Virginia Republicans plan to resume their push to require voters to show photo identification at the polls, adding the state to a growing group that expect to debate the topic...Tags: Primaries, Republican Party, Laws, National Government, Politics
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Senate OKs deal to avert 'fiscal cliff'; measure faces opposition from House conservatives
Legislation to negate a fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and sweeping spending cuts to the Pentagon and other government agencies is headed to the GOP-dominated House after bipartisan, middle-of-the-night approval in the Senate capped a...
Tags: Tom Harkin, Politics, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff
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White House, Congressional leaders continue to work on deal to avoid 'fiscal cliff'
Associated PressAgonizingly close to a New Year's Eve compromise, the White House and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to block across-the-board tax increases set for midnight, but held up a final deal as they haggled away the final hours of 2012 in a dispute over...Tags: Republican Party, White House, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Defense
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2012 has had its ups and downs
I don’t know about you, but I need to shower and shave. The grit, grime and all-out dirt and mud of 2012 is driving me crazy. And my family has banished me to the garage until midnight. Who could blame them? The soon-to-pass calendar year has...Tags: Republican Party, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Fiscal Cliff
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Pa. pot backers fired up by votes
Some advocates of repealing or relaxing Pennsylvania’s anti-marijuana laws say they are encouraged by referendum votes to legalize recreational use of the drug in Colorado and Washington state, but Gov. Tom Corbett vows to veto any such bill. State...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Lifestyle and Leisure, Politics, Gays and Lesbians, Executive Branch
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Mail Call - Dec. 10
“Regarding the front-page Herald-Mail article of Wednesday, Nov. 28, ‘Panel favors county salary hike,’ I vehemently disagree. If the increases are based on recent performance, other than sheriff and county treasurer, the wages should be...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, John McCain, U.S. Congress, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Belva Snyder
janeth@herald-mail.comBelva Snyder had many and varied passions — her four children, politics, community involvement, fashion and driving — to name a few. “Politics were her second life outside of her children,” oldest child Sandra Turtle said. Andrea...Tags: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Bill Clinton, The Salvation Army, Politics, Diabetes
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