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Natural gas export plans stir debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Tweet This Post

Plans to export US natural gas stir debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! [...]

Plans to export US natural gas stir debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! [...]

Obama wades back into the health care debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed health care law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components of the sweeping federal overhaul and staving off yet another challenge from Republicans. Tweet This Post

Republicans look for cover-up as Benghazi debate revived

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in Congress demanded on Thursday that the Obama administration release emails about its handling of last year's deadly attack in Libya, after a dramatic congressional hearing breathed life into the party's accusations of negligence and cover-up. U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner called on the [...]

The Budget Debate in 6 Simple Graphics

The federal budget is incomprehensibly large–$ 3.5 trillion to fund everything from benefits payments to courts to cops to education to research. There are hundreds of ways to slice it up, but some of the simplest come from the nonpartisan agency in charge of analyzing the budget, the Congressional Budget Office. Politics News Headlines – [...]

Sen. Cruz to Vice President Biden: Debate me!

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