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• Senate pledges to move Iran sanctions bill in January

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  Top Senate leaders promised Thursday to bring Chris Dodd sIran sanctions legislation to the Senate floor soon after returning to townnext month. "I want everyone to know that I am committed to getting thislegislation to the floor sometime after we return in January," Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid , D-NV, said ...
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• Rajiv Shah... confirmed!

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  The Senate gave the U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment an early Christmas gift Thursday morning, confirming Rajiv Shah to be the first officialadministrator of the organization in the Obama administration. The confirmation was done by unanimous consent just afterThursdays early morning vote on healthcare. ...
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• General Dynamics C4 Systems Names James Norton Director of Homeland Security and Federal Strategies (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

  
  Current Movie Reviews, Sports and Celebrity News — Authority: 141
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ – General Dynamics C4 Systems has named James Norton as director of Homeland Security and Federal Strategies as part of the company’s continued commitment to provide mission critical communications capabilities to federal, civil and intelligence customers. Norton will ...
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• Alabama: Race And Davis

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 153
  Hastings Wyman of Southern Political Report discusses Rep. Artur Daviss (pictured) bid to become Alabamas first black governor. Rep. Davis hopes to replicate President Barack Obama’s success by combining high turnout and near-unanimous support among black voters with a larger-than-normal share of the white vote : ...
  21 hours ago

• Lugar calls on NATO to lead, not upset Russia-Georgia security balance

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  Wereyou keeping a list of senior GOP lawmakers who are weighing in tooppose thepotential French sale of the Mistral-class amphibious assaultship to Russia? If so, add Indiana Senator Richard Lugar tothat list. Lugar,the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee,released a report Tuesday that calls ...
  22 hours ago

• Congress weighs in with support of Iranian protestors

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  Asmourners clashedwith police on the streets of Iran, Congress passed a resolutioncondemning the government for its suppression of basic freedoms andits long track record of human rights abuses. The sense of the Senate resolution passed by unanimous consent lateTuesday. Its chief sponsors included Sens. Ted ...
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• Immigration Enforcement By Local Cops Studied By US Congress

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 448
  Jim sent this in: The Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended during the Obama Administration, authorizes the federal government to enter into partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies to train officers to assist in identifying those individuals who are in the country illegally.   U.S. ...
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• Holiday Greetings To Servicemembers

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 448
  Members of the U.S. Congress and state Governors send their holiday greetings and well wishes to servicemembers deployed overseas.
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• News: Bookeristas In U.S. Politics

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 153
  Ex-RNC Chiefs Rip Steele For Speaking Fees Michael Steele (pictured) is using his title as Republican National Committee chairman to market himself for paid appearances nationwide, personally profiting from speeches with fees of $8,000-$20,000 at colleges, trade associations and other groups - an unusual practice ...
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• Republicans ready to tie Iran sanctions to French-Russian arms deal

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  As the Senate negotiates with the Obama administration overIran sanctions, conflict over a French arms sale to Russia could get caught upin the mix. The friction between top GOP leaders in Congress and theFrench government is over the Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, which theFrench are considering selling to ...
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• Dodd internal poll shows Senator competitive with GOP candidates

  
  Connecticut Local Politics — Authority: 498
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• Fiasco!: West Bets Climate Change Will Hurt Poor the Most – Le Quotidien d’Oran of Algeria

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 674
  It’s a lowdown dirty allegation, but is it true? Have the large multinationals concluded that a little global warming wouldn’t be bad for their bottom lines? Furthermore, are their actions based on the belief that people in the developing world would be hurt the most? That is precisely what K. Selim of ...
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• McMahon claims internal poll shows her even with Simmons

  
  Connecticut Local Politics — Authority: 498
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• J.C. WATTS OP-ED: Wall Street Reforms Crush Main Street

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 153
  Asserts the conservative Republican businessman and former Congressman, who argues that the "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009" will harm consumers : "There was an element of this bill that Republicans and moderate Democrats hated, establishing the Consumer Finance Protection Agency. The name ...
  4 days ago

• Davis Introduces Bill To Help Small-To-Medium-Sized Businesses

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 153
  U.S. Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) introduced a bill Wednesday in the House of Representatives that would establish a $1 billion revolving loan fund for small and mid-sized businesses that are struggling to obtain credit in the aftermath of the recession . HR 4340, if passed, would take some of the money being paid back ...
  5 days ago

• Rumor mill: Kerry to Tehran?

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  The Cable ispicking up some chatter today around town that Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee chairman John Kerry isoffering to travel to Tehran to try to broker a last-ditch agreement with theIranian regime regarding its nuclear program. Its an interesting idea considering Kerrys role inrepresenting the ...
  5 days ago

• Source: Turf warrior Murtha moved to defund national security reform group

  
  The Cable — Authority: 707
  In thedefense bill going through the Senate right now, Congress completely defundedthe Project on National SecurityReform, anorganization working to reform Americas dysfunctional national securityinfrastructure, according to its president. Theorganization, which has ties to National Security Advisor Jim Jones , ...
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• South Carolina Unemployment Rate Hits 12.3% – Wilson Continues To Fight For Job Creation Policies

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 448
  Pepper sent this in: (Columbia, S.C.) – South Carolina’s unemployment rate hit an all-time high at 12.3% for the month of November.   Upon hearing about the state’s unemployment numbers, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), a member of the Education and Labor Committee, continued to sound the alarm about ...
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• Top Ten Codes You Are Not Supposed To Know

  
  Travel, Work, Life...! — Authority: 127
  Entertainment venues, stores, hospitals and other such places where people go in large numbers, use secret codes to pass information between their employees. These secret codes are used in crowded places by employees, so that they don’t alarm the non-staff members or alert some suspicious person. Many big stores ...
  6 days ago

• How Many Times?

  
  The MountainGoat Report — Authority: 451
  This video of Idaho Blue Dog Congressman Walt Minnick appears on the official YouTube channel of Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Republican Whip.  It has scored over 2,000 views, in six days vaulting to rank 36 of over 330 videos Cantor has uploaded in the last two years. Minnick is railing against the ...
  6 days ago

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