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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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06/03/12 4 SC Democratic incumbents vying for 2 House seats Source: Herald-Journal - Spartanburg SC The Darlington race pits the House's longest-serving member, Rep. Denny Neilson, against Rep. Robert Williams.
06/03/12 Parliamentary group backs Tour de France bid Source: Goole Courier - Goole - UK Yorkshire's bid to host the opening stages of the 2016 Tour de France has won the backing of Parliament's All-Party Cycling Group, Selby and Ainsty MP Nigel Adams was told in the House of Commons.
06/03/12 ROLL CALL: House OKs FDA funding Source: The Daily Reflector - Greenville NC Here's how area House members voted on major issues in the week ending June 1.
06/02/12 Big Ben's Renaming In Honor Of Queen Elizabeth For Her... Source: International Business Times (Australia) David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband are some of the most senior officials who supported the change.
06/02/12 150 Years Ago In Rockland: The Tappan Zee House Source: Nyack News and Views - Nyack NY 150 years ago this week. there may have been a war waging between Union Soldiers and Confederates in the South and in the West â but in Nyack, the Summer Season was about to begin.