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Members Outraged by Leaks Struggle With AP Seizure
Though plenty of noise is being made over the Department of Justice’s subpoenas of reporters’ phone records, there is a steady stream of lawmakers who remain neutral about what news organizations say was a serious threat to freedom of Continue Reading
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Thomas Fitzgerald column
May 14–n it comes to presidential elections in Pennsylvania, Republicans are like Tantalus, the figure of Greek mythology. The man whose name lives on in the word tantalize was doomed to stand in a pool of water that he Continue Reading
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Va. financial disclosures law called ‘murky’
May 12–The political trips that Secretary of the Commonwealth Janet Vestal Kelly disclosed last month also revealed something about Virginia law on financial disclosures — it’s not entirely clear to the peop Continue Reading
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Immigration reform divides GOP
WASHINGTON _ The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama’ Continue Reading
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Republicans Sean Duffy, Phil Gingrey Oppose Obama’s Social Security Cut
WASHINGTON — Two House Republicans have told constituents they oppose proposed cuts to Social Security and veterans benefits by reducing the cost of living adjustment, according to letters they sent to constituents. President Barack Obama in Continue Reading
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EDITORIAL: California Disclose Act a must in the era of Citizens United
May 17–”I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.” Voters are used to that tagline on political ads, and most get the idea behind the decade-old law requiring it in federal campaigns. Known as the Continue Reading
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In IRS and AP cases, the government crosses the line
The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, May 15: ___ The developing scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department have this much in Continue Reading