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This district, along with the 2nd, should be on top of Hoosier Democrats’ target list in 2012.
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This district, along with the 2nd, should be on top of Hoosier Democrats’ target list in 2012.
Without a Democratic opponent, and there isn’t one yet, he has a pretty straight shot to a second term. But there’s a proven opponent eyeing the race.
Communities of interest are chopped up seemingly without any concern for what residents think or want. Democrats chopped up Montgomery County in Maryland solely to defeat a sitting Republican.
“There were these perverse incentives for federal aid to states that seemed to keep people in foster care longer than they should,” he said.
When pushed on the “baseless” point, he described legal interactions between her attorney at the time and the National Restaurant Association’s counsel, saying, “They came to the conclusion that it should
So many gamble and go without insurance, and without medications, hoping to limp by to 65 to get Medicare.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also confronted the White House on Tuesday, saying on the Senate floor that Obama should insist in December talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
This should come as no great surprise.
A nearly unanimous 98 percent of AAE members believe that teachers should be free to choose whom they wish to associate with, further advancing AAE’s position that no educator should be required to pay
deficit reductions will begin to happen when they will be the correct fiscal policy — that is, when the private sector is creating economic activity and jobs and the federal government can pull back without
As a result, participating veterans receive timely care by an interdisciplinary care team without the risk of infection that is unfortunately so common in institutional settings.
“At a time of similar economic turmoil and record deficits, Congress should not require sacrifices of others without tightening its own belt.”
On one of the Sunday talk shows a few months ago, Coburn said the pledge should not stand in the way of what he believes is the right way forward for cutting the deficit.
But without the correct strategic and operational goals and objectives, we will find ourselves on the proverbial hamster wheel.
“With D.C. hiring legislation already pending in the Council … this was a clear case that could and should be resolved without Congressional intervention, and I applaud Chairman Issa and Council
“If Grover Norquist is the most powerful man in America, he should run for president,” Simpson said of the man most famous for getting the vast majority of Republicans to sign his pledge against
“The bill that comes from the House, I think we should amend it,” Reid said. “I’ve spoken to the Republican leader; he wants to bring that forward.
* * * * * I cannot leave today’s column without a few more words on the super committee.
On Monday, amid a string of executive actions aimed at implementing parts of the Obama jobs bill without legislative action, Trumka took a more conciliatory tone, stating that “the president has
These business owners have enough to do without trying to keep up with dozens of annual changes in tax laws. 4.