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Another Primary Tuesday

The focus of the Presidential elections turns to Arkansas and Kentucky on Tuesday, as Mitt Romney can edge even closer to officially capturing the GOP nomination and we'll see if there is another strong protest vote against President Obama. 75 delegates are at stake for the Republicans, and theoretically Romney ...

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Judges Defend Hawaii Conference

In a battle over travel spending between the Judicial and Legislative branches, judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pushed back against criticism from two Republican Senators who questioned plans for an expensive judicial conference in Hawaii scheduled for August. In a statement issued by the court on Monday ...

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Catholic Groups File Suit Against Obama Health Law

Led by the University of Notre Dame, several dozen Catholic religious schools and institutions filed lawsuits around the nation on Monday, taking aim at new regulations under the Obama health law that require most employers to provide birth control coverage in their health plans. "This filing is about the freedom ...

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Senators Question Judicial Junket

Two Republicans in the U.S. Senate are demanding answers from a group of West Coast federal judges over plans for an August legal conference in Hawaii that supposedly could cost taxpayers $1 million. "This conference is further evidence the federal government is in a state of financial chaos," said Sen. ...

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Tough GOP Budget Talk

Republican leaders in the Congress have been making it clear in recent days that they are ready to go to the mat with Democrats and the White House again on spending and the debt limit, bringing back memories of last year's political battle that was resolved only with a last ...

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The Rhythm of Work

The Republican Party experiment with a new work schedule in the House of Representatives is in its second year, and the reduced number of days in Washington, D.C. is leading many to think that very little will get done before the November elections. Think of it this way - between ...

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Postal Service Cutbacks

The Postal Service today announced a list of 140 mail processing and distribution facilities which will be consolidated over the next two years, saving an estimated $2.1 billion each year, all part of an effort to stem the tide of red ink at the Postal Service. In a news release, ...

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Defense Policy Bill

The House will consider issues big and small in a major defense policy bill that is now before lawmakers. Listed below are the 141 amendments made in order - everything from forcing a withdrawal from Afghanistan to very parochial issues back at home. Take a look through what the House ...

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Budget Goose Egg

For a second straight year, Republicans engineered a vote in the Senate on President Obama's budget in a bid to embarrass Democrats politically, as Senators voted 99-0 against Mr. Obama's spending plans. Democrats labeled it a stunt, while GOP lawmakers said it was evidence that the White House isn't serious ...

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Senate Budget Votes

After months of complaints by Republicans in the Congress, the Senate will vote Wednesday on five different budget plans, four from Republicans and one which represents the latest budget from President Obama. The agreement for the votes was announced with little fanfare Tuesday evening on the Senate floor, coming just ...

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Another Election Step

As voters in two states indicate their preference Tuesday in the Republican race for President, Mitt Romney's final serious challenger has all but suspended his campaign, as Ron Paul says he will not actively campaign in any of the primaries remaining in this year's GOP race. Paul told his backers ...

FILE - In this April 5, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks at the University of California at Berkeley, Calif.  Paul says he is done spending money on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Paul on Monday issued a statement that insisted he would continue to fight for delegates to the GOP convention in Tampa. But the favorite of libertarians and tea partyers says he would no longer spend “many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.”   (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

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Ron Paul Ends Active Campaigning

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says he will not spend money to campaign for votes in primaries in the 11 states still to vote in the race for the GOP nomination for President, telling backers that he doesn't have the "tens of millions of dollars" to compete. In an email to ...

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What's Next on Postal Reform

The Postal Service gave Congress until May 15 to approve a major reform bill that would allow the USPS to find billions in savings, but that deadline arrives Tuesday without any final action by Congress as more red ink keeps flowing when it comes to mail delivery. Late last week, ...

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Women Could Change Presidential Politics

Women have comprised a majority of eligible voters in the United States since 1964. In 1980, the number of women who actually voted comprised a majority in the Presidential Election for the first time. And, while women do not, like some groups, vote as a monolith, gender gaps among women can, and often do decide elections.

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Good Budget News

For the first time since the Wall Street Collapse in September of 2008, the federal government has posted a monthly budget surplus, as Uncle Sam took in $59 billion more than was spent in April of 2012. Federal revenues were $318 billion in April, while spending was $259 billion, a ...

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Postal Service Changes

Instead of moving to close down hundreds of post offices around the nation, the U.S. Postal Service announced plans today to limit the hours of operation of post offices in order to save money in the future. "The plan would keep the existing Post Office in place, but with modified ...

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Thur, May 10 -Orrin Hatch, school choice, make money

Thurs, May 10 9:30 AM EST - John Gizzi in the impact of the Indiana Primary, is Orrin Hatch next? 10:15 Pajamas Media Guest... 10:30 How can you make money at home? Michael David McGuire. Michael is a former actor and PR guru. He helped pioneer the work from home freelance lifestyle more than 40 years ago, and can show stay at home moms (and dads) how to use their existing skills to create their own full time jobs, all while living a stay at home lifestyle. 11:15 What do moms think about school choice? Leslie Hiner, a Mom, and VP of Milton Friedman's Foundation for Educational Choice will ring in at 11:15 a.m. on Thursday. Here is her bio. 11:30 Roger G. Charles on corruption in Federal investigations focusing on the Oklahoma City bombing with a book, "Oklahoma City."

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Thurs, May 10 -Orrin Hatch make money at home, school choice

Thurs, May 10 - The Martha Zoller Show 9:30 AM EST - John Gizzi in the impact of the Indiana Primary, is Orrin Hatch next? 10:15 Pajamas Media Guest... 10:30 How can you make money at home? Michael David McGuire. Michael is a former actor and PR guru. He helped pioneer the work from home freelance lifestyle more than 40 years ago, and can show stay at home moms (and dads) how to use their existing skills to create their own full time jobs, all while living a stay at home lifestyle. 11:15 What do moms think about school choice? Leslie Hiner, a Mom, and VP of Milton Friedman's Foundation for Educational Choice will ring in at 11:15 a.m. on Thursday. Here is her bio. 11:30 Roger G. Charles on corruption in Federal investigations focusing on the Oklahoma City bombing with a book, "Oklahoma City."

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Obama vs Federal Inmate 11593-051

As I like to say about political news, sometimes "you can't make this stuff up." And on Tuesday night, there was another installment of that, as a federal prison inmate won over 40% of the Democratic Primary vote against President Obama in West Virginia. Really. That's what really happened. As ...

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Lugar Gets Knocked Out

After 36 years in office, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana suffered the same fate that has sent other veterans in the Congress back home, as his career was unceremoniously ended in a lopsided defeat in his state's Republican primary. "Downfall of a Statesman," was the headline in one Capitol Hill ...

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