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CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer eyes Sunday vote

CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer eyes Sunday vote

March 18, 2010

Democrats are lauding a CBO report that found their healthcare package will cut the deficit by $130 billion. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) hailed the figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office during a meeting with a group of reporters on Thursday morning and said the House would vote on Sunday.

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Health Care

Public Awaits Health Care Bill Release, After Dems Celebrate Cost Estimate

March 18, 2010

House Democrats were “giddy” Thursday after an estimate from their budget scorekeepers showed the latest health care bill clearing a necessary

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Obama Tells Fox News ‘Procedural’ Spat Over Health Bill Vote Doesn’t Worry Him

March 17, 2010

President Obama is not worried

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Kucinich to vote yes on health, giving a boost to Democrats

March 17, 2010

Maverick liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced Wednesday he will vote in favor of healthcare reform, handing Democrats a crucial vote. The Ohio lawmaker

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National Security

The Slaughter on the Southern Border

March 17, 2010

At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a “top priority.”

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Pakistani Court Charges Five Americans With Planning Terror Attacks

March 17, 2010

A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against

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The Jihadists Next Door

March 16, 2010

The arrests of three new homegrown terrorists, including two “Jihad Janes” and an al-Qaida suspect who infiltrated nuclear plants, confirm

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Congress

Senate passes job bill

March 17, 2010

The Senate sent a $18 billion job-creation package to President Barack Obama Wednesday. The bill passed on a 68-29 vote, with nearly all Democrats and

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The Senate’s proud porkers

March 17, 2010

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe said Tuesday that he’s taking a “very unpopular

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Hoyer: We May Turn Capitol Hill Into A Slaughter House

March 16, 2010

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday that House Democratic leaders expect to pass the Senate health care bill later this

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Immigration

Immigration status of all O.C. jail inmates will be checked

March 17, 2010

All inmates booked into Orange County jails will have their immigration status checked through a fingerprint identification program that started Tuesday. Orange

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Sen. Graham Says President Obama’s Proclaimed ‘Unwavering’ Commitment to Immigration Reform‬‪ ‘Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test’

March 15, 2010

On Thursday President Obama met with Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and Lindsey Graham, R-SC, who are working on a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Afterwards,

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Lindsey Graham: Immigration reform in peril

March 12, 2010

A pair of White House meetings Thursday designed to chart a path forward for immigration reform instead spotlighted the daunting obstacles ahead — and

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Obama

Conservative News: Brett Baier Questions President Obama on Healthcare, Israel.

March 18, 2010

Late yesterday President Obama — whose administration has worked diligently to delegitimize Fox News appeared in an interview with Fox News about

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PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov’t more open with Obama?

March 17, 2010

Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to

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Obama to Israel: ‘Drop Dead’

March 16, 2010

It took a while — fourteen months, to be exact — but both the ADL and AIPAC have issued very solid statements condemning the president’s

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Race

Al Sharpton Becomes Obama’s Ambassador to Black Community

March 17, 2010

With his wavy bouffant

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New Jersey Walmart Probes ‘All Black People’ Announcement

March 17, 2010

Company officials are reviewing security tapes after an announcement was made for “all black people” to leave a southern New Jersey Walmart

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Big Wage Gap Between Men & Women; Women of Color Suffer Most

March 15, 2010

The pay gap between female and male workers in this country got a hearing in a Senate committee yesterday. But you wouldn’t even know the hearing happened:

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Supreme Court

Justice Stevens Mulls Supreme Court Retirement

March 17, 2010

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s

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Pawlenty budget challenge now in the hands of the Supreme Court

March 15, 2010

The fate of a lawsuit that challenges Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s unilateral cuts and shifts of $2.7 billion last summer now rests in the hands of the Minnesota

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White House Vs. Supreme Court: It’s Getting Ridiculous

March 12, 2010

For the life of me, I just don’t get why the White House continues to try to pick a fight with the Supreme Court. I’ve suggested before that

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Other Headlines

CLICK Flick: King, one busy Irishman

Few politicians are busier on St. Patrick’s Day than Rep. Peter King: He’s a regular stop for any visiting Irish politician. “It’s a working day; I know you have a hard time believing that,”

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Republicans Battle Pelosi Over Plan to Pass Health Bill Without Traditional Vote

Republicans and Democrats are locked in an unusual battle over how to vote on the

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Protests greet Mexico’s Calderon after U.S. killings

Crowds of protesters damned President Felipe Calderon’s military crackdown on drug cartels as he flew to Mexico’s most violent city on Tuesday, three days after gunmen killed two Americans

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House Budget Committee Votes Against Including Stupak Amendment in Health-Care Reconciliation Bill

The House Budget Committee voted 19-17 Monday night against recommending that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment be included in the health-care reconciliation

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FCC Recommends ‘Robust, Affordable’ Internet for All Americans

High-speed Internet, or broadband, is “a modern necessity of life, not a luxury. It ought to be found in every village, in every home and on every farm in every part of the United States,” the Federal

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Nearly One-Third of Doctors Could Leave Medicine if Health-Care Reform Bill Passes, New England Journal of Medicine Says

Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care reform

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Health Care 101: A consumer primer on Obama’s bill

It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama’s health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it’ll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and

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ACORN Branches Rebrand After Video Scandal

Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate

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CBC: W.H. visit ‘frank but cordial’

In a meeting aides described as “frank but cordial,” members of the Congressional Black Caucus told President Barack Obama on Thursday that he has to do more to help African-Americans. Members of the

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Obama Outlines Sweeping Education Revamp

The Obama administration plans to upend how the government measures

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International Condemnation of Israel – So What’s New?

The Israeli government is bracing itself for more condemnation from the international community this week, at an upcoming meeting of the Quartet, scheduled for March 19. It's expected that the

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Jim Inhofe slams Al Gore on climate ‘hoax’

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) attacked former Vice President Al Gore on the Senate floor Monday, calling climate change “the greatest

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Hope and Change in Iraq

In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of the real

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House Panel Pushes Forward With Health Care Maneuver

The House Budget Committee Monday initiated the process that will allow the Senate to consider health care reform under special rules which ban Senate filibusters and require a simple majority to approve

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Israel’s Netanyahu under fire for row with US

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sought to project calm amid a deepening crisis with the United States, seen as the worst rift between the close allies in decades.

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