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House GOP Meeting on Budget Talks

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WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders have called the party's House rank and file to a highly unusual late night meeting in the Capitol to discuss budget negotiations with President Barack Obama and Senate ...

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Obama Threatens to Veto GOP Budget Extension Plan

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans advanced legislation Thursday to avoid a government shutdown for one more week, cut spending and fully fund the Pentagon, but the White House labeled the measure a ...

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Obama Needs to Call Summit on the Deficit, Top Democrat Says

By Bruce Drake

Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a member of President Barack Obama's debt commission and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Sunday that the president needed to follow up the commission's ...

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Why Michele Bachmann Was Right to Drop Bid for GOP Conference Chair

By Matt Lewis

Wednesday night, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann fired off a Tweet that said: "Bringing my candidacy for GOP Conference Chair to a close - proud to support @RepHensarling." This was the right move. ...

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Conservatives Should Back Hensarling Over Bachmann for GOP Post

By Matt Lewis

Based on the angry e-mails and Tweets I received during the campaign, it was clear some of my conservative friends didn't understand why I was so bullish on the candidacy of Marco Rubio yet slightly ...

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May 16, 2012

Here's Howie today:

Source: Hullabaloo

"Lesser of two evils" doesn't always apply.

Apr 27, 2012

Every Republican In Congress Fails Blacks

Source: Atlanta Daily World - Atlanta GA

The new NAACP Report Card for the first session of the 112th Congress is out and it shows that every graded Republican member of the House and Senate received an F on issues considered important to the nation's oldest civil rights group.

Apr 27, 2012

Voterama in Congress: April 27

Source: Times-News - Hendersonville NC

Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending April 27.

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FINANCIAL DEREGULATION: Voting 312 for and 111 against, the House on April 25 passed a bill (HR 3336) to exempt derivatives transactions by small banks, credit unions, nonprofit-cooperative lenders and farm-credit institutions from transparency and collateral requirements set by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law.

Apr 26, 2012

Every Republican in Congress Fails Blacks

Source: Black Voice News - Riverside CA

Apr 16, 2012

Sheldon Adelson Gives $5 Million To Super PAC Backing House Republicans

Source: The Huffington Post

A super PAC launched to protect the Republican Party majority in the House of Representatives received its biggest infusion of cash to date as Sheldon Adelson and his wife contributed $5 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund in February.