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• Congresss conundrum: Investigate or legislate?

  
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  Every week that Congress is in session, The Washington Posts Ed OKeefe previews whats expected to happen in the House and Senate: Can Congress productively legislate and conduct oversight investigations of a sitting president at the same time? This week will be the test. Read full article >>   ...
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• Will Obama suffer the ‘second-term curse’?

  
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  Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.” Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda through an unbudging Congress. Read full article ...
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• Will Obama suffer the ‘second-term curse’?

  
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  Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.” Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda through an unbudging Congress. Read full article ...
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• Weekly Featured Profile – David Kusnet

  
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  KeyWiki.org David Kusnet David Kusnet works for the Tony Podesta’s Washington D.C. lobbying firm the Podesta Group . Kusnet is “ an accomplished author and a former presidential speechwriter, has extensive experience creating speeches, reports, and opinion pieces, as well as authoring or ...
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• Bookerista Debate: Is It A Good Thing That Mark Sanford Was Elected To Congress?

  
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  Ive already said "No" . Bookeristas debate former South Carolina governor Mark Sanfords comeback — this time as a U.S. Congressman — after that Argentinian mistress scandal from a few years ago: YES : Star Parker: "Welcome Back, Mark Sanford" The conservative Republican pundit opines : "Put me down ...
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• Help KeyWiki Expose Hawaii Governor Abercrombie’s Socialism and Probable Lie

  
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  New Zeal Barack Obama, Governor Neil Abercrombie In 2010, I exposed then Hawaii Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Neil Abercrombie and his wife Nancie Caraway as sometime members of the US’ largest Marxist organization, Democratic Socialists of America . This relationship spanned more than 20 years, ...
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• Move to Steel Coinage Impacts Currency Value, Silver Supply

  
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  A measure  introduced in the U.S. Congress seeks to replace the base metal of most American coins with steel. The move would slash zinc, nickel and copper content of U.S. coins to a fraction of today’s already reduced levels. Like past changes in metal content, the bill represents a logical continuation of ...
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• U.S. government & governance 2013

  
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  One thing we can count on with respect to this Congress is that if there is even one second left before you have to do what you’re supposed to do, they will use that last second. – President Obama Fareed Zakaria: Can America Be Fixed? The New Crisis of Democracy (Foreign Affairs January/February) As the ...
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• Advocates intensify campaign to urge the U.S. Congress not to end diversity visa lottery programme

  
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  WASHINGTON,  (IPS) - Advocates for the African diaspora in the United States have stepped up a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress not to end a longstanding visa programme aimed at boosting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Is Cory Bookers "Unofficial" U.S. Senate Campaign Breaking Federal Election Law?

  
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  Its a question that NorthJersey.com poses, about the moderate-liberal Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J .: "Newark Mayor Cory Booker raised $1.9 million and spent nearly $264,000 between January and March on a potential run for U.S. Senate next year. The Democrat has told some of his nearly 1.4 million followers on ...
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• The Case for Nuclear Unilateralism - By Yousaf Butt

  
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  NewSTART may be flawed, but it also holds an opportunity for Obama to do somethingtruly momentous.
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• Meet the combatants in todays big Benghazi hearing

  
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  Today,the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform is convening itslong-awaited hearing on the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi -- one that will feature a group of self-described "whistleblowers" from inside the State Department. According to leaked copies of their testimonies, the ...
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• Advocates For Women’s, Workers Rights Say Congress Must Reject The Working Families Flexibility Act

  
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  More than 150 women’s, worker and civil rights organizations sent a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives Monday urging them to reject the  Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013. The measure,  H.R. 1406 , sponsored by U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (R, AL-2), is expected to go up for a full House ...
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• ‘Sammies’ finalists honored on Capitol Hill

  
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  As part of Public Service Recognition Week , the Partnership for Public Service introduced 31 finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals , also known as the Sammies, during a breakfast in their honor at the Senate Hart Office Building on Tuesday. Read full article >>       ...
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• Outsourcing Lethality - By Micah Zenko

  
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  When theres a foreign finger on the trigger, is Washingtonstill accountable when innocents die?
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• Bill Ayers and His Media Groupies

  
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  Accuracy in Media Bill Ayers’ claim that the Weather Underground bombed property, not people, in order to protest the Vietnam War, is two lies in one. First, they specialized in anti-personnel bombs using heavy metal staples. Second, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were not opposed to the war, only to ...
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• Klobuchar says comprehensive immigration reform is critical to moving economy forward

  
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  NEWS RELEASE — Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), vice chair of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), today (Tuesday, May 7) held the first of a two-part hearing to examine the economic impact of immigration in America. Klobuchar emphasized the important role immigrants play in a broad ...
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• Amtrak at 42: Making the Grade

  
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  Two cheers for Amtrak, which celebrated its 42nd anniversary on May 1. The nations only intercity passenger rail service, derided by its critics and begrudged funding by Congress, is providing improved service and reliability. But this service is lopsided, favoring the Northeast Corridor — the electrified route ...
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• Who Are We Again? - By Danielle Pletka

  
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  Have Republicans totally forgotten what the nationalinterest means?
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• Mark Sanford: He who shall not be named

  
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  Mark Sanford may return to Congress this week after Tuesdays special election in South Carolina, but the welcoming committee isnt exactly rolling out the red carpet. In an interview with The Washington Posts Brook Silva-Braga, Sanfords potential South Carolina GOP colleague Rep. Trey Gowdy wouldnt even speak ...
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