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Obama: Allies Will Soon Take Control of Libyan Campaign
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Democrats Could Lose Senate, Biden Warns Party
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South Dakota Governor Signs Tough Abortion Bill Into Law
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Obama Getting Heat From Left and Right for U.S. Role in Libyan Attacks
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Allied Airstrikes Buoy Libyan Rebels; Obama Stresses Limited Military Goal
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Opposition Rises to Increased Nuclear Power Use; Offshore Drilling Support Rebounds
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French Warplanes Enforcing Ceasefire in Libya After Gadhafi Keeps Up Attacks
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Economic Issues Underpin Obama's Trip to Brazil, Chile, El Salvador
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Obama to Gadhafi: Stop the Attacks or Face Military Action
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House to Consider Bill to Defund National Public Radio
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New Fire Breaks Out at Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant
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Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Rocked by Second Explosion in Quake's Aftermath
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Published: 01/15/11

Everglades Boosters: Environmental Restoration Can Spur Economy, Bipartisanship

By Amy Green - Politics Daily

WESTON, Fla. -- During the worst recession in a generation, we can't afford to engage in environmental restoration. Or can we? Tying environmental restoration to economic recovery is the emerging strategy for environmentalists as political turnover transforms government away from Democratic control, big spending and earmarks. That was the theme recently at the annual conference of the Everglades Coalition, an alliance of 53 national and local organizations involved in the largest environmental restoration effort in the history of the planet. The conference draws policy-makers from all ...

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Published: 03/30/10

Sarah Palin on the Trail: Giddyap, Giddyap!

By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily

Last we checked on Sarah Palin -- two minutes ago -- she had left behind a political dust storm and a few snakes rattling in the West over the weekend. Strewn all around the crossroads of cowboy America were vintage Palinisms -- "Don't retreat, just reload" -- rabble-rousing one-liners and fervent chants of "Run, Sarah, run!" One glance at the cable news streaming her appearances live and you had to know that she'd probably never need Peggy Lee's "Fever" to heat up the crowds. There was Sarah, lighting up center stage, wearing an all-black, zipped-up leather biker jacket, thigh-hugging skirt ...

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Published: 02/2/10

Obama Backs Off Las Vegas Spending Comment

By Steve Friess - AOL News

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 2) -- President Barack Obama, attacked by Nevada leaders after referencing Las Vegas for the second time in a year as an inappropriate place to spend money, tried late today to soften the blow by praising the city as "one of our country's great destinations." Obama's attempt to soothe ruffled feathers came hours after a town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., where he told a crowd that people ought not "blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to save for college." The comment came almost a year to date after the president referred to Las Vegas as a place where companies ...

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Published: 02/2/10

Opinion: The Unbearable Earnestness of Harry Reid

By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News

(Feb. 2) -- Some people simply don't know when to leave well enough alone. Just when the country got over its knee-jerk overreaction to a politically incorrect statement in light of more important news, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has decided to give the country another chance to reignite conversation over his bouts with idiocies. Reid has come under fire for penning an op-ed pegged to Black History Month in which he touched on his efforts to integrate home state industries. In the piece, the supposed great integrator and not-so-smooth communicator wrote: "I worked hard during my time in local ...

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Published: 01/12/10

Congressional Agenda for 2010: Controversy and Budget Busting

By Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily

When Congress starts its work for the year Tuesday, Democrats in Washington will begin working on two distinct types of legislation leading up to the crucial mid-term elections in 2010 -- the bills they want to do, and the bills they have to do. At the top of the list of to-do's that Democrats are eager to tackle are passing a final version of health care reform, along with a swift pivot to dealing with the economy, or as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to it, "Jobs, jobs, jobs." In addition to jobs and health care, a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tells Politics Daily ...

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Published: 01/11/10

Harry Reid Says He Won't Dwell on Race Controversy

By not in system - AOL News

WASHINGTON (Jan. 11) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sought to slam the book shut Monday on a controversy stemming from remarks about President Barack Obama's race and dialect, and a string of forgiving statements from prominent blacks made clear his leadership post is not in immediate jeopardy. "I've apologized to the president," he said, and to everyone "within the sound of my voice that I could have used a better choice of words." He spoke in Apex, Nev., his first public comments since the issue flared over the weekend. "I'll continue to do my work for the African-American community ...

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Published: 12/7/09

Reid Compares Republicans to Slavery Sympathizers

By Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily

On the day after President Obama told Senate Democrats that history will remember their role in reforming America's health care system, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went to the Senate floor to make a more pointed historic argument. "It amazes me that the Minority Leader rejects that what we're doing is truly historic," Reid said, referring to Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "I am confident that history will prove the Republican leader wrong." Reid then went on to compare the health care debate to other noble battles in American history, including the war to end slavery, and ...

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Published: 10/26/09

Public Option in Senate Bill, Harry Reid Says

By Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily

Sen. Harry Reid said today that the unified bill he negotiated with the White House and the chairmen of the two committees debating health care this year will feature a government-run health insurance option that states can opt out of if they don't wish to participate. Reid called a press conference today to announce a few, and we do mean a few, of the details of the bill that combined elements of measures passed by the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Sen Max Baucus, and the Senate Health Committee, led by Sen. Chris Dodd while its late chairman, Ted Kennedy, was ailing.In discussing the ...

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Published: 10/26/09

Union Boss: Compromise Public Option Not Good Enough

By Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily

With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid poised to announce that the Senate version of health care reform will include a public option that would let states opt-out of the program, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Monday that his members do not want anything less than a "robust" public option provision. "We cannot be in favor of reform for reform's sake," he said. "We have to make sure that reform is real and we have to be honest about that." When asked if he considers an opt-in or opt-out public option to be robust, Trumka said, "No," adding, "It's on its way. It's not there yet." During a ...

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Published: 10/21/09