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The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee expressed opposition today to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to give civilian trials to the 9/11 plotters. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) penned a letter to Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggesting military trials would be a more ...
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Eric Holder
9/11
Robert Gates
General David Petraeus
Ike Skelton
One former House Speaker is helping another former Speaker's son get elected to Congress. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) will headline a fundraiser Dec. 11 for Illinois congressional candidate Ethan Hastert. Hastert, an attorney, is running for the seat of his former House Speaker ...
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Newt Gingrich
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of two Democrats still not committed to supporting a crucial test vote on healthcare reform Saturday night, will not announce her decision until that morning.
Landrieu and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) are both undeclared. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Friday ...
Congress
Blanche Lincoln
Republican senators tried to make the case today that new recommendations on breast cancer screening foreshadow the rationing that would take place under Democratic healthcare reform. A preventive medicine task force recommended last week that women not necessarily get memograms before age 50, ...
Congress
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's (D) wife, Diane, will endorse Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) on Saturday in the race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Gov. Patrick remains unpopular in the state, but his wife's backing will at least signal the governor's feelings to potential supporters. Of ...
Congress
Deval Patrick
Barbara Boxer
The White House is distributing a joint statement signed by former Wisconsin GOP Gov. Tommy Thompson to tout the bipartisan credentials of the Senate healthcare bill. The joint statement from Thompson and former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt states that the Senate bill represents a ...
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Fred Thompson
Republican National Committee
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a
long stride toward locking down the support of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). The three senators announced an agreement Friday on an ...
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Sen. Wyden wins big healthcare concession
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ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice
Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according a report
issued today by the department's Inspector General. No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a handful of grants were awarded either to ...
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ACORN received $200,000 in DOJ funds, report says
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Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-Md.) would be one of
the first Democrats to go if Republicans make significant
gains in 2010, and a new poll shows he has reason for concern. The Tarrance Group poll, which was conducted for state Sen. Andy Harris’s (R) ...
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Poll: Dem freshman Kratovil down by double digits in ...
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) outraised it's GOP counterpart in October, but both committees spent more than they raised thanks to the New York special election. The DCCC will report raising $3.8 million and spending $4 million for the month. The National Republican ...
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Republican National Committee
The FEC yesterday carved a loophole in travel restrictions for lawmakers and candidates, allowing them to fly on private jets at lower rates. Candidates for Senate, Vice President, or President, can accept discounted rates on corporate or private jets if they are traveling on behalf of their ...
Congress
Russ Feingold
Senate Democrats' newly unveiled healthcare bill could cost as much as $1.6 trillion over the next decade, nearly double the amount the Congressional Budget Office first predicted, a former CBO official said Friday. In an estimate released this afternoon by the conservative-leaning American ...
Congress
Harry Reid
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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is now
saying that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) does
not know whether centrist Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) will vote with her party on healthcare reform Saturday. Friday morning, ...
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Durbin change tune on Sen. Lincoln
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Friday said that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should keep his job but that he would like to see his agency focus more on creating blue-collar jobs. "He's got my confidence," Brown said on ABC News' "Top Line" webcast. Brown, who is considered a liberal ...
White House
Sherrod Brown
Timothy Geithner
ABC News
Barack Obama
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Democrats will get the 60 votes needed to
start debate on healthcare reform, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)
predicted today. "Getting 60 votes is never easy, but I believe we'll get to 60 votes," he told MSNBC. "I think we'll get it started." Specter ...
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Specter predicts successful (initial) cloture vote
A Senate bill introduced Thursday would prohibit big companies that announce massive layoffs from subsequently hiring foreign workers to fill their ranks. The Employ America Act, sponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is an attempt to combat what both lawmakers ...
Congress
Chuck Grassley
President Obama will dip below 50% in Gallup's daily tracking poll for the first time today. The organization updates it's numbers at 1PM ET, but they've put out advance word this morning that Obama will dip below the half-way mark. Obama's current rating stands exactly at 50%, so assuming he ...
White House
Barack Obama
Gallup Poll
Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Friday said that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's confirmation is not a forgone conclusion. Bernanke will go before the Banking panel shortly to begin confirmation hearings. President Barack Obama named him to a second term of as ...
White House
Christopher J. Dodd
Barack Obama
Timothy Geithner
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), has informed Majority Leader Harry Reid how she'll vote on a motion to begin debate on healthcare reform, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said today. "She's told Senator Reid," said Durbin, the Demoratic Whip, according to First Read. "You'll have to ask Senator Reid." ...
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Blanche Lincoln
Dick Durbin
Harry Reid
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A bipartisan effort gaining momentum in the House
to require periodic audits of the Federal Reserve is
little more than "great PR," one Republican senator stressed Friday. Although Reps. Ron Paul (R-Tx.) and Alan Grayson's (D-Fla.) effort to subject ...
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Gregg: Fed audit amendment panders to 'populist fervor'
