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Pelosi isn't going anywhere

Source: Sacramento Bee, Nov 25 2012, 2:42am CST

WASHINGTON People might understand Nancy Pelosi better if she were a heavy-set, cigar-chomping, fedora-wearing, big-city boss. It would spare her questions like the one posed by NBC's Luke Russert at a postelection news conference whe ...

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Pelosi: Blame Bush for IRS Scandal

Source: NewsMax  |   May 24 2013, 9:38am CDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has tried to shift the blame for the IRS targeting scandal to former president George W. Bush. Pelosi pointed out that it was Bush who appointed Doug Shulman as head of the tax collection agency — a ...

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5 hours ago

House OKs bill on student-loan rates

Source: Arkansas Online  |   May 24 2013, 5:36am CDT

WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday passed legislation to head off a doubling of student-loan interest rates on July 1, instead tying rates to prevailing market trends and ending federal subsidies. The bill, which passed 221-198, kicks off ...

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25 weeks ago


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"Politics at this level is insatiable"


Source: Sacramento Bee

 

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5 hours ago

Friendly Fire: Parties Slam Some of Their Own

Source: Roll Call  |   May 24 2013, 5:17am CDT

The National Republican Congressional Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee each blasted the other side after a near party-line vote on the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, which passed the House on Thursday, 221-198 ...

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12 hours ago

House immigration talks wild, wacky

Source: The Politico  |   May 23 2013, 10:41pm CDT

For the second time in two weeks, Democratic and Republican negotiators on immigration have emerged from meeting rooms on Capitol Hill, coyly saying some variation of “we’ve made progress” or “we have a deal in princip ...

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12 hours ago

House Immigration Effort Hits Bump in the Road

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 23 2013, 10:18pm CDT

By Kristina Peterson WASHINGTON—Last week, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers thought they had a broad deal on how to overhaul the immigration system. This week, they don't. The eight House lawmakers were forced to backtrack from the "agreement ...

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18 hours ago

U.S. House won't follow Senate lead on immigration bill -Boehner

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 23 2013, 4:58pm CDT

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday his chamber would chart its own path on immigration rather than simply considering a Senate-passed measure, quashing hopes some Democrats ha ...

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18 hours ago

Democrats Take More Assertive Role in Immigration Reform

Source: Commentary  |   May 23 2013, 4:50pm CDT

The coverage of the effort to reform the country’s massively inefficient and outdated immigration system has usually focused on where the controversy has been thus far: Republican supporters of comprehensive immigration reform vs. the R ...

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19 hours ago

Lee & Hoyer offer ‘Half in 10′ bill to cut poverty

Source: Ibabuzz.com - Political Blotter - Politics in the Bay Area  |   May 23 2013, 3:27pm CDT

Halving the number of Americans who live in poverty is the goal of a bill introduced Thursday by Rep. Barbara Lee with support from one of the House’s most powerful Democrats. With 46.2 million Americans living in poverty ...

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19 hours ago

House immigration group reports progress on healthcare, but no deal

Source: The Hill  |   May 23 2013, 3:25pm CDT

The members of the group left to return to their districts, but they appeared to be in roughly the same place as they were a week ago, when seven of the eight negotiators signed on to what they termed an “agreement in principle” on far-reaching im ...

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