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GOP Voters in Early States Embrace a Trump Presidential Bid

WASHINGTON -- Out with Sarah. In with The Donald. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party's search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. GOP celebrities like Sarah Palin aren't getting much buzz. Mainstream candidates like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty...

Toxic Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Democratic Report Says

WASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday. The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either...

House Passes Huge GOP Budget Cuts, Opposing Obama

WASHINGTON -- In a prelude to a summer showdown with President Barack Obama, Republicans controlling the House pushed to passage on Friday a bold but politically dangerous budget blueprint to slash social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid and fundamentally restructure Medicare health care for the...

House Set to Vote on $6 Trillion Spending Cut Plan

WASHINGTON -- A bold but politically risky plan to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget steamed toward a party-line House vote Friday, as insurgent Republicans rallied behind the idea of fundamentally reshaping the government's role in health care for the elderly and the poor. The GOP plan proposes a federal...

Congress Sends Budget Cut Bill to Obama

Congress sent President Barack Obama hard-fought legislation cutting a record $38 billion from domestic spending on Thursday, bestowing bipartisan support on the first major compromise between the White House and newly empowered Republicans in Congress. "Welcome to divided government," said House Speaker John Boehner of...

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05/29/12 Tea Time: Live-blogging the GOP Family Feud in the... Source: The Texas Observer - Austin TX I'll be joining the Observer team in blogging and tweeting the primary as the results come in tonight.
05/29/12 New Pension Reform Bill Clears House Committee Source: CBS - WBBM Newsradio 780 - Chicago IL SPRINGFIELD, Ill. A plan to cut government pensions and shift some retirement costs to schools has cleared its first hurdle in the Illinois Legislature.
05/29/12 SC House member: Send Haley ethics complaint to AG Source: Aiken Standard Brady says she will make the motion at Wednesday's committee meeting.
05/29/12 Shocking Study Reveals Ivy League Profs Support Obama,... Source: IvyGate Thanks to a piece posted today by the good people at The Dartmouth, IvyGate's attention was brought to a recent study by the Center for Responsive Politics, a group tracking campaign finance data.
05/29/12 SD House Candidate Cited For DUI, Careless Driving Source: NBC - KDLT - Sioux Falls / Mitchell SD A candidate for the South Dakota House of Representatives has been cited for driving under the influence and driving carelessly after allegedly hitting a 7-year-old girl on a bicycle in a crosswalk.