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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department’s internal watchdog has asked outside law enforcement experts to review how misconduct complaints against American diplomats are investigated amid charges that some probes have been improperly halted by senior officials. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Harry Reid Might Just Have the Votes to Upend the Senate Nomination Process
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2013
Supporters of a plan to change the Senate's rules around presidential appointments think they have the votes to reform the filibuster. If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid loses one more vote, though, a decision on the highly controversial move could come down to the man pictured above. Tweet This Post
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No Comments »John Kerry: Israel’s ‘Prosperity’ May Be Blocking Peace Process With Palestinians
Posted by admin on May 29th, 2013
“People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there will be peace because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and of prosperity.” Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Blocking, Israel's, John, Kerry, Palestinians, Peace, process, Prosperity No Comments »Tea party groups call IRS process ‘nightmare’
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anger over President Barack Obama's policies drove businessman Tom Zawistowski to file paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service nearly three years ago to create the Ohio Liberty Coalition. Tweet This Post
John Cornyn whines about judicial nomination process he’s boycotting
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2013
In a Senate judiciary committee hearing last week. Texas Republican John Cornyn leveled a very typical Republican complaint to try to deflect the blame for vacant judicial seats from filibustering Republicans: It’s all President Obama’s fault for not making nominations. That was a mistake. Here’s Sheldon Whitehouse and Patrick Leahy, reminding him how it actually [...]
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Posted by admin on April 30th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: boycott, judicial, nominee, process, Republicans, Senate, totally No Comments »No Wonder Why Claims With Veterans Affairs Take Several Hundred Days to Process
Posted by admin on April 3rd, 2013
As uncovered in investigations conducted by PBS Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting, the backlog at the Veterans Affairs Department has reached unbelievable levels. The average wait time for a veteran’s claim for benefits is 273 days, but the waits can go on for much, much, much longer. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Aaron [...]
White House says approval process for pipelines belongs to State Department
Posted by admin on March 14th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The process of approving transborder pipelines like TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline has traditionally been handled by the State Department because of their international nature, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Thursday. Carney was responding to a question about a new bill from Democratic Senator Max Baucus, Republican Senator John [...]
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Posted by admin on March 11th, 2013
It’s budget week on Capitol Hill–the start of an annual ritual, but one that this year bucks a nearly century-old tradition.Over the next few days, Senate Democrats and House Republicans will unveil starkly different proposals for how to fund the government in the next fiscal year. It will be the first time since 2009 that the Senate [...]
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