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Tea Party Rallies to Keep GOP Cutting Spending

WASHINGTON -- The tea partyers who helped drive GOP gains in the last election rallied in the city they love to hate Thursday, urging Republican House leaders - Speaker John Boehner above all - to resist the drive toward compromise in the protracted fight over the federal budget. Even, they say, if that means Congress...

Senate Sends 3-Week Funding Bill to Obama

WASHINGTON -- Congress has approved $6 billion in spending cuts as part of legislation to keep the government running for three more weeks and give President Barack Obama and congressional leaders time to negotiate a far more sweeping package of reductions demanded by Republicans. The bill easily passed the Senate by a...

Lawmakers Trade Jabs in 2011 Budget Battle [VIDEO]

'Feelings Thermometer': Michelle Obama Ranks 'Warmest' With Voters, Pelosi 'Coldest'

Everyone is used to the familiar "horse race" poll that tells us who is out front when it comes to a campaign, but Quinnipiac University has a different measure for some of today's leading political personalities: namely, who ranks the "warmest" and "coldest" on a "feelings thermometer"?

Reagan Remembered: Courage in Seeking Freedom

One hundred years after his birth, 30 years after his inauguration as president and only seven years after his passing, it's already widely acknowledged by both Democrats and Republicans that Ronald Reagan was a great man and a great president. His role in ending the Cold War, with America victorious and the forces of...

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06/02/12 Tax reform: Guv invites you to 'weigh in' Source: The Gleaner - Henderson KY Actually, I'm not really "stealing" anything, merely passing along parcels gleaned from Wednesday's Community Forum section of The Courier-Journal.
05/22/12 GOP Senator: Obama Is Attacking Capitalism Source: The Huffington Post - Business The White House has laid siege to capitalism, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared Tuesday.
05/21/12 Mary Landrieu: Republicans Privately Support Revenue... Source: The Huffington Post Republicans may publicly trash the idea of including new revenues in a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, but they say otherwise in private, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Monday.
05/20/12 Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions Source: AOL Money & Finance WASHINGTON -Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt.
05/16/12 Deal Reached To Keep Paducah Uranium Plant Going For... Source: The Huffington Post - Business FRANKFORT, Ky. The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant will continue operating for another year and preserve 1,200 jobs, at least temporarily, under a deal announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Background on mitch mcconnell

Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell, Jr. (born February 20, 1942), a Republican American, is the senior United States Senator from Kentucky and the Minority Leader.

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