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What Newt still won’t admit

Source: Salon, Dec 10 2012, 7:11am CST

Monday, Dec 10, 2012 12:33 PM UTC Steve Kornacki Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pauses while announcing that he is suspending his presidential campaign, Wednesday, May 2, 2012, in A ...

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4 hours ago

Kan. Senate eyes new tax measure

Source: HutchNews.com  |   May 23 2013, 9:41pm CDT

Published: 5/23/2013 9:30 PM | Last update: 5/23/2013 9:30 PM TOPEKA -- Top Republicans in the Kansas Senate floated a new tax plan Thursday in hopes of ending a deadlock with House GOP leaders over raising new revenues from the sales tax. Se ...

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5 hours ago

Senate OKs judge for D.C. circuit on 97-0 vote

Source: Washington Times  |   May 23 2013, 8:48pm CDT

Senators voted 97-0 Thursday to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the vitally important U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after Republicans relented and allowed the vote to go forward this week. But ben ...

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23 weeks ago


Quote:
"when we balanced the budget, we balanced the budget with a tax cut, not a tax"


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7 hours ago

Dome: Recycling advocates don’t like Senate budget

Source: The News & Observer  |   May 23 2013, 6:49pm CDT

The state Senate took the final vote on its $20.6 billion budget Thursday, passing it along party lines. But not before both sides got a chance to fire a few shots at each other. “This really is about the No. 1 priority that you have for th ...

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9 hours ago

How GOP Will Keep Stirring the Scandal Stew Over Recess

Source: National Journal  |   May 23 2013, 4:48pm CDT

Congressional Republicans head into next week’s Memorial Day recess armed with a strategy designed to keep the controversies that have consumed Washington in the news back home. Both House and Senate Republicans wil ...

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11 hours ago

Poll: 'Cut spending' beats 'Raise taxes'

Source: SpokesmanReview.com  |   May 23 2013, 2:50pm CDT

A new survey suggests Washington voters would rather the Legislature cut spending than raise taxes, the folks at Moore Information say. Wow. Bet you didn't see that coming. (Next week, Moore will poll people on whether they'd rather have rai ...

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11 hours ago

McCain-Cruz Feud Turns to Budget

Source: Wall Street Journal Blogs  |   May 23 2013, 2:27pm CDT

By Janet Hook Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) speaks while Chairman Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) listens during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing on April 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty ...

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11 hours ago

What Exactly Did Boehner Promise at Williamsburg?

Source: The Corner  |   May 23 2013, 2:02pm CDT

In House Republicans’ discussions over the upcoming debt-ceiling fight, conservative lawmakers are revisiting an agreement struck at the GOP’s Williamsburg, Va., retreat in January. At the retreat, Republicans adopted a s ...

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12 hours ago

State Senate Rejects Increases To Gas Tax, Tobacco Tax

Source: New Hampshire Public Radio | NHPR  |   May 23 2013, 1:31pm CDT

The state Senate has rejected a proposal to increase the state’s gas tax. The bill had already passed the House, and would have increased the tax by 12 cents, or 67 percent. Republican Senator Jeb Bradley said such an increase would hurt familie ...

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12 hours ago

Obama Needs To Pivot To Jobs — Again

Source: Think Progress  |   May 23 2013, 1:30pm CDT

Remember the first pivot to jobs? After wasting much of 2011 trying to strike a Grand Bargain with the Republicans on deficit reduction, which earned him the worst approval ratings of his Presidency, Obama finally woke u ...

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