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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsTreasury receipts from inheritance tax and stamp duty overshot forecasts from previous year, as more middle class families dragged into tax intended for rich
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, John Vine, says he is resigning from his post.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesMoscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on Thursday killed at least 10 soldiers in an overnight ambush on a Ukrainian paratroopers unit, near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 , a BBC report said.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday that India's refusal to sign a global trade deal had sent the wrong signal, and urged New Delhi to work to resolve the row as soon as possible. A ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe treatment of employees in public services who raise concerns about wrongdoing is often "shocking", a group of MPs says.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsFormer deputy prime minister criticised by Jewish groups after describing Gaza as a 'concentration camp'
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsFormer deputy prime minister criticised by Jewish groups after describing Gaza as a 'concentration camp'
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesThe Ebola virus, which has caused a global health scare in recent days after spreading rapidly through parts of West Africa, is not a threat to the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe early departure of Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican, could allow his successor to participate in the lame-duck session of Congress this fall.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsEastbourne is to get a boost of up to £2m following a fire that left the former arcade on the town's pier a charred shell, Downing Street has said.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA project aiming to revolutionise medicine by unlocking the secrets of DNA is under way in centres across England.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe United States and the United Nations announced the 72-hour pause early Friday, a diplomatic bolt-from-the-blue that will set the stage for arduous negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsStormont departments, excluding health and education, are to have their budgets cut by £78m as the executive agrees to endorse the June monitoring round.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostTo no one’s surprise, the House of Representatives has voted to approve a resolution ( H. Res 676 ) authorizing Speaker John Boehner to sue the president on its behalf. Following a party-line vote in the House Rules Committee on July 24,...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is awaiting an extension on his asylum status in Russia, which expired at midnight on Thursday, but will stay on in the country while the authorities review his appeal.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsTelegraph View A cut in this punitive levy would breathe new life into the housing market - and may increase revenue for the Treasury
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe family will spend time in August at a home in Amagansett, but will kick off their vacation with a benefit for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on Aug. 9.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsTelegraph View The Public Accounts Committee reports that transparency in government departments has a long way to go
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe report from Civitas found that large-scale immigration will have a negative effect on standards of living as any economic benefits will be outweighed by pressures
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsMinisters were accused in a Commons report of failing to put in place effective policies to protect whistleblowers in the public services.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsAlistair Carmichael, the Scottish Secretary, attacks the Yes Scotland campaign over claims that rejecting independence would "threaten the very existence of the NHS in Scotland as we know it."
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved President Barack Obama's choice of John Tefft to be the next American ambassador to Russia, filling a post that had been vacant since February.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostAs one of its last actions before recessing for August, the Senate confirmed John Tefft to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia, a post that has been vacant since February. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee rushed through its confirmati...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesCalifornia’s crippling three-year drought is spreading like a wildlife, its flames now lapping nearly every corner of the Golden State. “Exceptional drought” -- the highest of the U.S. Drought Monitor’s five ratings -- now covers 58 perc...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesThe U.S. Senate on Thursday night overwhelmingly approved a $16.3 billion measure to overhaul the much-troubled Veterans Affairs department. The House of Representative passed the same legislation on Wednesday, and the measure now awaits...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsAgainst the odds, the civic hygiene in the Moreland Commission affair took a drastic turn for the worse this week.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post(This post has been updated.) And we reiterate, nothing in Congress is ever, ever certain. Just as it appeared the Senate was going home leaving the U.S. embassy in Moscow without an ambassador, GOP senators had a late-night change of he...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostCIA employees improperly searched computers used by Senate investigators involved in a multi-year probe of the agency’s use of harsh interrogation measures on terrorism suspects, according to the findings of an internal agency inquiry th...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsIn something of a consolation prize in a year marred by gridlock, the Senate approved expanding veterans’ health care and replenishing the Highway Trust Fund.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Thursday approved a $10.9 billion funding extension for transportation construction projects through May 2015, averting a cutback in federal payments to states that was due to start on Friday.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: Politics(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to review a case about whether the federal government can subsidize health insurance for millions of Americans, a party involved in the lawsuit said on Thursday.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostIn a sprint to the finish line before a five-week break, the Senate on Thursday night approved bills to aid the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs and to extend federal highway funding through May. Read full article >>
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsScrambling to wrap up work before a 5-week summer recess, lawmakers finished the bill to reform the embattled Veterans Affairs health care system
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsThe order is the president's latest use of executive authority to advance his policies in the face of a gridlocked Congress.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostHouse Republican leaders were ambushed by another conservative insurrection on Thursday, forced to scrap a pivotal vote on a border security bill and scramble to find a solution amid a familiar whirlwind of acrimony and finger-pointing. ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Top StoriesWhen Bush's book comes out, it's sure to force a re-evaluation of the Bushes on many levels.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsJonnie R. Williams Sr. testified at the corruption trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, that Ms. McDonnell told him the couple were desperate for money.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsOnce a bastion for the working and middle classes, the city is going through an identity crisis as it gains a reputation as a gentrifying “hipster haven” with a booming real estate market.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsJonnie R. Williams Sr., a wealthy Virginia businessman and the star witness in the corruption trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, testified for a second day on Thursday.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsThe money is earmarked to institute reforms at the beleaguered agency.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsMoney was to deal with crisis of minors illegally entering the U.S.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe Obama administration said it would seek to build deeper relationships with African leaders, though some advocates worry that human-rights issues will take a back seat.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsNeel Kashkari, the Republican candidate for governor of California, spent a week pretending to be homeless in Fresno, Calif., an experiment that added some sorely needed publicity to his campaign while also attracting some ridicule.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Top StoriesLawmakers fund transportation programs but will need to revisit the issue in May.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate late on Thursday overwhelmingly gave final congressional approval to a $16.3 billion plan to ease long healthcare delays at the scandal-plagued Veterans Affairs Department, adding the bulk of the co...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from CBS News - PoliticsThe Clintons, joined by their daughter, slam the new books attacking them as "fiction" and urge the media not to take the bait
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostDozens of federal employees at an obscure agency that handles appeals of patent applications went years with so little work to do that they collected salaries — and even bonuses — while they surfed the Internet, did laundry, exercised an...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe beginning of the collapse of House Speaker John A. Boehner’s border bill came Wednesday evening, when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz gathered more than a dozen House Republicans at his office in the Dirksen building on Capitol Hill. Read full a...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesIn the 24 days since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge began, there have been three humanitarian cease-fires, plus one expected to begin Friday; at least six attempted humanitarian cease-fires or extensions; an original Egyptian proposa...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsPolitico Magazine editor Susan Glasser and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum talk with Linda Wertheimer about how the president's foreign policy moves are playing out at home and abroad.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsMinisters are accused of failing to tackle the harassment of staff in the public services who raise concerns over wrongdoing.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe bank, which is 80% owned by the taxpayer, re-states its warning that its business could suffer it Scotland goes it alone.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsA project to map 100,000 DNA sequences will make Britain the world leader in genetic research on cancer, David Cameron says.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedRep. Eric Cantor will resign from Congress effective Aug. 18, he said in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch posted at midnight.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsSky News learns that a quarter of early years providers have not been inspected within the last four years.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated 11:07 p.m. | The Senate may not be confirming nominees to posts in a slew of countries before departing for the August recess, but after some procedural maneuvering, the U.S. will be getting a top diplomat in Russia.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe careers of Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz and Gov. Neil Abercrombie have been linked for several years, but the Schatz campaign has worked for the past 18 months to ensure their political fates are not.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Senate cleared a $10.8 billion House bill patching the Highway Trust Fund to the president's desk Thursday in its last legislative vote before heading out of town for the August recess.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated, 9:32 p.m. | Two southern Republican senators -- Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas -- played outsized roles sinking border supplemental bills on both sides of the Capitol as they demanded a push to end President Bara...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Senate overwhelmingly passed the agreement to address the Veterans Affairs health care crisis by a vote just a few hours before the August recess.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from RedState
Image Credit: Brian Hillegas. Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth. That is all you know and that is all you need to know. – Keats. So I crack open the Internet and read the news. It just about all vapes off the exhaust nozzle. DOOOOOOOMM... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsA 91-3 vote in the Senate will send the landmark VA legislation, meant to address widespread problems in the VA health care system, to President Obama for his signature.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated 7:56 p.m. | The Senate failed to pass a $3.6 billion emergency supplemental spending package, most of which was designed to deal with the tens of thousands children illegally emigrating from Central America.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMajority Leader Harry Reid called the CIA's snooping on computers used by Intelligence Committee staff "appalling and deeply threatening to our system of checks and balances" and is demanding changes.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe House will hold off on leaving town for its five-week August recess until Republicans find the votes to pass legislation addressing the border crisis.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedLawmakers may be getting ready to leave Washington until September, but that doesn't mean the lobbying and the fight between TiVo and the cable industry over the so-called integration ban on cable set-top boxes has died down.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from RedState
The Senate is in a bad way these days. Not that the Presidency and the House are functioning all that well, but under the leadership of Harry Reid since January 2007, the U.S. Senate has reached levels of dysfunction unparalleled in its ... -
Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated 8:12 p.m. | With the August recess in jeopardy and House Republicans in total disarray, the arm-twisting on Capitol Hill is getting pretty intense.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe art of the mix-tape lives, particularly when it's so useful in wishing a fond fare-the-well to outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. Brother blog Heard on the Hill compiled a Spotify list that could be used as a substitut...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDistrict officials have suggested Maryland's restrictive handgun permit policy might provide the best model for their city, as they attempt to enact new gun control measures, but Rep. Thomas Massie thinks they should look to Pennsylvania...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe acting head of the National Transportation Safety Board voiced doubts in House testimony Thursday about a proposed bill that would end the Federal Aviation Administration's medical certification requirement for many general aviation ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDr. No is at again, despite the jet fumes in the air.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Club for Growth's independent expenditure arm has started airing television spots again on behalf of Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., according to Federal Election Commission records.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedBack in 1932, emus were overrunning Western Australia to the point of plague. The military was called in to help. The emus pwned the military, the subject of this week's Throwback Thursday.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from RedState
After making atheist provocateur Richard Dawkins a deity himself for his vitriolic attacks on Christianity, the left is suddenly experiencing a case of tightly wound panties over the discovery that Dawkins doesn’t reserve his misan... -
Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsMonths after denying that the CIA could have been snooping on Senate staff, agency director John Brennan has apologized to Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsHouse GOP leaders have abruptly canceled a vote on their own bill meant to address the surge of unaccompanied minors at the Mexican border. An effort to pass a pared down version of President Obama's request was blocked by a group of Tea...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell continues to unfold, as the prosecution's feature witness, Star Scientific's Jonnie Williams, testified against McDonnell and his wife.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsForeign policy was once a strong suit for President Obama, but polls now show widespread disapproval of his handling of foreign affairs.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing reports that his administration interfered with the work of an anti-corruption commission that he created — and then abruptly disbanded.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsA big week in congressional mailing: Members of Congress can't use "franking" to send mass mailings during a black-out that starts 90 days before an election. That deadline is approaching.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedA Government Accountability Office report released on Tuesday examines states' increasing reliance on taxes on health care providers to help cover Medicaid spending.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from RedState
Ray Rice faced the media today for the first time since he knocked his fiancee unconscious and dragged her to his hotel room. I didn’t watch; I have little interest in hearing questions from the same media that insists upon calling... -
Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThis year will be the first in which other renewable forms of generation produce more electricity than hydropower, the Energy Information Administration reports. Hydropower has provided a steady 20 to 30 billion kilowatt hours per month ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIn the frenetic legislative run-up to the August recess, House lawmakers sent their version of a highway bill back to the Senate, voting to disagree with the Senate amendment to the legislation.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedWith Republicans eyeing the Senate majority and his own job title poised to change, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has told the National Republican Senatorial Committee not to worry about his race.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMore stoned drivers on the road because of marijuana legalization could be a serious risk, at least according to some lawmakers.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsTea Party conservatives objected to sending money to the White House to address the crisis. GOP leaders said another vote was possible yet today.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedSen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced a bill Thursday to provide a tax credit for costs of joining cybersecurity information sharing groups.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated 4:52 p.m. | House GOP leaders ditched their plans to vote on a border supplemental Thursday after failing to secure the votes to pass it -- but plan to try again Friday before jetting out of town for the August recess.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe venerable Congressional Research Service, which advises Congress on a wide-range of major policy issues, recently issued a report for lawmakers on last month's Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, which struck down ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedCompanies that have energy innovations to peddle can benefit from groups with know-how that the Small Business Administration has organized and calls clusters, according to retired Rear Adm. Steven Smith, now director of the SBA's Office...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedBetween managing a busy pre-recess agenda, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., squeezed in some help for a boxer who needed a visa to be able to fight in the United States this weekend.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from RedStateHere at RedState, we’ve already spilled a lot of digital ink on Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s supposed “speak-o” that government subsidies for Obamacare wouldn’t be available in states that didn̵...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedOver the past couple days, including again Thursday, Obama administration officials previewing next week's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit have been reinforcing the following message about a continent with a number of national security hotspo...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from RedStateHouse Republican leaders do not have the votes to fund Barack Obama’s amnesty/immigration plan. So they pulled it. The House leaders are thus far insistent they will not close the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) progr...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedAs Eric Cantor gave his last speech as majority leader on the House floor, Capitol Lens decided to dig into the Roll Call archives for different views of the outgoing majority leader's time on the Hill.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from All News RSS FeedEric Cantor delivered a somber farewell as majority leader Thursday, telling his House colleagues that he has "truly lived the American Dream."
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsA Sky News investigation lays bare how hospitals rely on expensive agency staff to fill shifts on bank holidays.
