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GOP Gov. Pawlenty And Dem Sen. Wyden Prove Health Care Reform Is Not A Federal Government Takeover

Soon after Congress passed health care reform, Minnesota Gov. and likely ’12 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty decried that “we now have the federal government reaching so far inside our society, dictating whether human behavior is good or not.” A fe… Continue reading

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Making Congress More Transparent

As I travel across the state and listen to New Yorkers, there is no question how worried people are about the economy — if the job they have today will be here tomorrow, if the job they lost is ever coming back, and how they are going to make ends mee… Continue reading

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Sharron Angle Spokesperson Denies She Wanted To Withhold Aid From Hurricane Katrina Victims

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is clarifying — but not backing down from — comments she made questioning the timing and composition of the aid package Congress passed five years ago for victims of Hurricane Katrina.In a statement to… Continue reading

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Congress, Don’t Send the U.S. Solar Industry on an Extended Vacation

It’s that time of year when many Americans are just returning from a summer vacation.During their travels, most of those vacationers probably passed by some of the many solar projects, large and small, being installed across the country. However, they … Continue reading

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Obama Creates Backdoor Amnesty by Mass Dismissals of Deportation Cases

President Obama lets people break laws that he doesn’t like. The latest example is his backdoor amnesty for thousands of illegal immigrants, as a still-fuzzy but insidious picture is emerging.Obama shows a pattern of refusing to enforce laws (or refusi… Continue reading

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The Top 10 Richest Politicians In Congress

The economy may have been tanking across the country over the last year, but it’s apparently a different story on Capitol Hill where the 50 richest lawmakers gained a cumulative $1.4 billion in personal wealth, according to research by The Hill newspap… Continue reading

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Sharron Angle In 2005: I Would Have Voted ‘No’ On Hurricane Katrina Relief Funds (AUDIO)

Several years ago, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle said that she would have voted against emergency legislation designed to bring financial assistance to victims of the disaster.Nevada political journalist Jo… Continue reading

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The Pentagon Owes the United States $1 Trillion

From 1999 to 2010 the Pentagon’s managers squandered $1 Trillion. In the next ten years, it should be returned to the Treasury.In 1998, the Pentagon budget was at a twenty three year low at $361 billion. For 2010, the DOD budget was $697 billion (all… Continue reading

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Best hope Democrats have is Republican chaos

With the midterm elections roughly nine weeks away, conventional wisdom would suggest gains for the Republican Party.History is certainly on their side. Since 1870, only four times did the incumbent president’s party not lose seats in Congress during m… Continue reading

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Lost and Found: Preparing Workers for New Careers

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, I traveled there with other members of Congress. We flew in helicopters to survey entire neighborhoods submerged in dirty water. Those neighborhoods not underwater were abandoned. We toured the 9th Wa… Continue reading

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