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Congress punts cybersecurity, so White House may act alone

Source: PC World, Nov 17 2012, 1:49pm CST

Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that President Obama had signed a secret policy directive outlining new protocols for federal agencies in dealing with cyberthreats and providing new authorities for the military "to act more aggre ...

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57 minutes ago

Bam’s mystery night

Source: New York Post  |   May 24 2013, 9:44pm CDT

On “Fox News Sunday” recently, White House aide Dan Pfeiffer was asked about President Barack Obama’s whereabouts the night of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi. This was the night when we lost our first ambassador in 30 y ...

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1 hour ago

Republican student loan bill passes US House

Source: Deseret News  |   May 24 2013, 9:29pm CDT

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican proposal to tie interest rates on student loans to the government’s cost of borrowing on May 23, the Washington Post reported. The proposal got through the GOP-led House easily, but ...

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26 weeks ago


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"The majority leader had made prior commitments to allowing a free and open debate on cybersecurity, a matter that Republicans acknowledge must be addressed especially in the areas of information sharing, and providing some degree of liability protection to those companies that do share cyberthreat information with one another and the federal government"


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1 hour ago

This Is Not 2009

Source: The New York Times  |   May 24 2013, 9:06pm CDT

With the scent of scandal encircling the White House, some Republicans are already licking their chops over the 2014 midterm elections, while some Democrats are pre-emptively licking their wounds. Not so fast, folks. Retract those ton ...

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New look to the race for Congress

Source: Your News Now - Rochester, NY  |   May 24 2013, 9:02pm CDT

A new job for Ann Marie Buerkle could change the outlook for the race for Congress in the 24th District in 2014. Buerkle has been nominated to fill a republican seat on the Federal Consumer Protection Board. If approved by the Senat ...

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Koch lawyer: Obama administration has tried to intimidate Koch Industries

Source: KansasCity.com  |   May 24 2013, 8:58pm CDT

Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of ...

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White House says not involved in IRS scandal

Source: Albequerque Express  |   May 24 2013, 8:44pm CDT

The White House on Tuesday said it is not involved in the scandal that engulfed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as the agency's head tried to explain the situation. White House Spokesman Jay Carney made the announcement during his regular briefing, ...

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‘Says It All’: GOP Senator Slams Obama for Meeting With Illegal Immigrants After Repeatedly Snubbing ICE Union

Source: The Blaze  |   May 24 2013, 8:30pm CDT

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., joins other members of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as lawmakers work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border an ...

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3 hours ago

Friday Talking Points -- Pivoting To Other News

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 24 2013, 7:27pm CDT

Some weeks, not much happens in political news, and other weeks it seems like almost too much happens. This was one of the latter types of week. While last week was a week of scandals on the television news, this week most of them faded into the ba ...

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The Women Versus the Ted

Source: The New York Times  |   May 24 2013, 7:20pm CDT

Let’s discuss how much better Congress would work if most of the members were women. The Senate seems to be a tad less polarized since the female population rose from 17 to 20 this year. It’s also possible that there ...

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