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Dec 18 2013
News
Budget deal wins final approval in Senate
The Senate on Wednesday approved a two-year budget deal, sending it to President Obama's desk and staving off the threat of a partial government shutdown.
The bill cleared the Senate on a 64-36 vote. It passed despite the objections of Republican senators to a provision that cuts billions from military retiree benefit
Fox News DigitalMar 15 2016
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Inside Marco’s Hollow Campaign
Three days before Florida’s climactic primary, Marco Rubio sank deep into a black leather armchair on his campaign bus. He had just spent 25 minutes smiling wide for supporters at a high-end boutique selling $150 candles. “Don’t forget to vote on Tuesday!” he shouted from the third step of a wood-paneled staircase. Now, on his parked bus, the afternoon sunlight shut out by drawn blinds, the
PoliticoJan 31 2013
News
Obama Prods GOP on Immigration Negotiations
President Obama has apparently had enough of leading from behind. During the health-care push, Obama left Congress to its own devices. On immigration, hes doing just the opposite, attempting to prod Republican legislators to the middle by demanding a vote on his own plan.
ABC News (Online)Aug 16 2013
News
RNC slaps back at CNN, NBC for planned Hillary Clinton films
The Republican National Committee voted on Friday to refuse to partner with CNN or NBC on 2016 GOP primary debates if those networks move ahead with planned films about Hillary Clinton - projects that the RNC described as "little more than extended commercials" promoting the former secretary of state's potential presidential candidacy.
CBS News (Online)May 27 2020
Analysis
Media’s Unpunished Lies Hurt The Nation Far Worse Than Trump’s Indefensible Tweets
Donald Trump’s tweets suggesting Joe Scarborough somehow murdered a young woman who died of natural causes nearly 20 years ago are reprehensible. This is in no way because these tweets defame Scarborough. It’s pretty hard to feel bad for a guy whose media presence enabled Trump’s political rise to the point he openly flirted with running as his vice president before making a comic heel turn
The FederalistNov 04 2012
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Tie Ballgame
Two polls released overnight show that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are running neck-and-neck in the national polls. As the two candidates run furious get-out-the-vote efforts between now and Tuesday, the race looks to be as tight as it's ever been.
TownhallMar 18 2017
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Why Trump's Budget Blueprint Loses Libertarians
President Donald Trump has released what was being touted as a "skinny" budget, meaning that it would put federal spending on a diet. Would that that were true. The blueprint, which doesn't engage with entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security and other forms of "mandatory" spending at all, simply balances cuts to various parts of the government with increases to the Departments of
ReasonSep 26 2016
News
Lessons from the debates of the past
EXPLAINING Ronald Reagan’s landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, The Economist’s issue dated November 8th 1980 singled out a few big factors. These included a mood of economic “misery”, public angst about American hostages held in Iran and the splintering of the Democratic voting coalition between white southerners and northern workers underway since the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the
The EconomistNov 19 2019
News
Documents reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018
A little-known nonprofit called The Sixteen Thirty Fund pumped $140 million into Democratic and left-leaning causes.
The “green wave” of campaign cash that boosted Democrats and liberal causes in 2018 included an unprecedented gusher of secret money, new documents obtained by POLITICO show.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a little-known nonprofit headquartered in Washington, spent $141
PoliticoApr 01 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: White House Advances COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts, Developing Standards for 'Vaccine Passports'
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The Biden administration is working with the private sector to develop standards for proof-of-vaccination credentials, informally referred to by some as vaccine "passports." Such credentials could potentially be used by participating businesses to require customers be vaccinated against COVID-19. The
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