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Obama Signs Order To Begin $85B In Sequester Spending
President Obama on Friday signed an order that starts putting into effect across-the-board budget cuts known as the “sequester” after he and congressional leaders failed to find an alternative budget...
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Conn. Covernor Set To Sign Gun Control Law
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who four months ago broke the news to shocked parents that their children had been slaughtered in a Connecticut elementary school, was expected to sign into law Thursday sweeping...
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US Gun Control Laws Clear First Hurdle
Gun control supporters won the first Senate showdown Thursday over how to respond to the December carnage in Newtown, Conn., defeating an effort by conservatives to derail a package of firearms...
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US Senate Passes Bill That Would Allow States To Tax Internet Purchases
The US Senate has passed a bill that could end tax-free shopping on the Internet for many shoppers. The Senate voted 69 to 27 Monday to pass the bill, sending it to the House where it faces opposition...
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Former IRS Commissioner To Testify On Capitol Hill
The Senate Finance Committee has launched an investigation into the improper targeting of Tea Party groups Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue...
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US House Passes Ban On Abortions After 20 Weeks Of Pregnancy
The Republican-led House passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that would restrict almost all abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception. It mirrors 20-week abortion ban laws passed by some...
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Senate Confirms Comey As FBI Director
The Senate on Monday confirmed James Comey as the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a 93-1 vote. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted “no,” becoming the first senator to vote...
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US Senate Votes To Move Ahead On Spending Bill – Now Back to Boehner & Tea...
The U.S. Senate voted to end debate on a spending measure just four days before a threatened federal government shutdown. The fate of the bill remained in limbo in the House as the Republican Party’s...
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Obama nominates Jeh Johnson as secretary of Homeland Security
President Obama nominated Jeh Johnson as next the secretary of Homeland Security. At the Pentagon, Johnson oversaw the increased use of unmanned drone strikes, the revamping of military commission to...
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Dozens of trade-offs in Congress $1.1 trillion budget bill
The sales job is on for a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year. The...
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Obama Announces US Cuba Opening Of Embassies [VIDEO]
The United States and Cuba have agreed to open embassies in each other’s capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries’ historic bid to restore ties after more than a half-century of...
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Congress to Act on Debt Limit By Nov. 5
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned lawmakers in a letter on Thursday that the deadline for increasing the government’s borrowing limit has moved up to about Nov. 5, or a month earlier than expected....
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Marco Rubio Running For Senate Re-Election [VIDEO]
Multiple sources report Sen. Marco Rubio will announce his re-election bid Wednesday. The move would be a reversal of a pledge he made a year ago, when he decided to run for president or return to his...
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Obama Creates Two New National Monuments In Utah And Nevada
President Obama on Wednesday designated two new national monuments in Utah and Nevada, protecting 1.65 million acres of federal land. Most of it, 1.35 million acres, surrounds the Bears Ears Buttes in...
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GOP Plans To Tear Down Obama’s Legacy As New 115th Congress Sworn In Today
The 115th Congress begins Tuesday with Republicans, set to control the House, Senate, and presidency for the first time since 2006, planning to start dismantling many Obama-era financial and...
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Obama, Pence Visit Capitol Hill For Obamacare Fight
President Barack Obama arrived to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is...
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NAACP President Arrested After Sit-In To Protest Trump
Several protesters, including NAACP President Cornell William Brooks, were arrested Tuesday after an hours-long sit-in by about two dozen civil rights activists at the Mobile, Alabama, office of Sen....
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Trump To Be Briefed On Russian Hacking Report Friday [VIDEO]
On Friday, the heads of the CIA and FBI, plus Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, are scheduled to brief President-elect Donald Trump on a 50-page classified report on Russian hacking, a...
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Senate Opens Confirmation Hearings Of Trump Nominee Sessions
The Senate is scheduled to launch three days of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks on Tuesday. First up in the morning is Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Trump’s...
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Protesters At Sessions Hearing: No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA
Before the confirmation hearing for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. attorney general, protesters shouted and interrupted the proceedings. “No Trump, No KKK,...
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