Supreme Court Faces Pressure To Reconsider Citizens United Ruling
Has anything changed in the world of campaign finance that might give pause to the five members of the Supreme Court who decided Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission exactly 28 months ago Monday?
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Romney Could Best Obama In Fundraising
Here’s a scary thought for Democrats: It’s entirely possible that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee will outraise President Obama and the Democratic National Committee in the seven-month sprint to the general election.
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Obama, Karzai Meet Before Nato Summit Opens
CHICAGO — President Obama met here Sunday morning with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, just hours before opening a NATO summit where the alliance plans to formalize plans to turn over primarily responsibility for the war to Afghanistan’s security forces next year.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Endorses Scott Walker
In a blow to Democrats hoping to unseat Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a June 5 recall election, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has endorsed the Republican governor over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D).
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Does Nancy Pelosi Want To Serve Again As Speaker? She Won’t Say.
Will she stay or will she go? And does she want to serve again as Speaker of the House?
Ask House Democrats about the political future of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and they claim they don’t know whether she will stick around after the November elections or retire after 25 years in Congress. (Ask them whether they want her to stay, and they’re likely to dodge the question.)
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Mitch Mcconnell, John Boehner Double Down On Deficit Concerns
Republican leaders doubled down Sunday on a renewed push to secure spending cuts as part of any deal to increase the national debt limit, drawing a sharper line in an emerging fight over the issue.
Using sharp rhetoric reminiscent of last summer’s fight over the issue, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said President Obama “needs to become the adult” in discussions with congressional leaders on spending and debt.
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Cher And Grover Norquist Engaged In Twitter Warfare
Cher is a household name. Grover Norquist is not.
Cher, the singer, actress, activist and gay icon, never holds back. She has often come under fire for her outspokenness, and her boldness is no different on Twitter, where she has more than 600,000 followers.
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At Camp David, World Leaders Agree On More Spending To Boost Europe’s Economy
CAMP DAVID, Md. — Leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations opened the door Saturday to more government spending in Europe as way to revive the continent’s struggling economy, shifting away from the idea that the surest way to recovery was through strict fiscal austerity.
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Michelle Obama’s Campaign Strategy: Steering Clear Of The Hot Issues
As the presidential campaign ramped up earlier this year, Michelle Obama presented poet Maya Angelou with an award and a hug at the BET Honors award show. Two days later, she danced on an episode of iCarly, a tweens sitcom.
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‘radical’ Bill Seeks To Reduce Cost Of Aids Drugs By Awarding Prizes Instead Of Patents
Prizes, not patents.
That could be the slogan for a radical idea that leading economists say would lower the price of new drugs for treating HIV/AIDS.
Treating AIDS costs tens of thousands of dollars per patient annually in the United States, and more and more patients are unable to afford the life-saving drugs, according to figures from the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. The waiting list for the program, which is jointly funded by federal and state governments and provides medicines to low-income patients, now stands at 2,759, up from 361 in 2010.
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Naacp Endorses Same-sex Marriage
The NAACP’s board of directors voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage rights – adding the influential voice of the country’s leading black civil rights organization to a debate that has divided the African-American community.
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The Birthers Are Back! The Birthers Are Back!
Or maybe they just never gave up on it.
Arizona — where a top election official has said President Obama might not make the ballot because of questions about his birth certificate — is one place where it is enjoying a resurgence.
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The Missing Issue In The Presidential Campaign
Big issues are on the table as President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney begin the general election campaign: jobs and the economy, the future of health care, taxes, spending, the size and scope of government. What is missing is any serious discussion of the one question that overrides all others: Can Washington govern?
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Michelle Obama Hosts G-8 Spouses At White House
First lady Michelle Obama hosted the significant others of foreign leaders who are visiting the United States for the Group of Eight summit for a tour and lunch Saturday at the White House while the leaders of the world’s biggest economies talked business elsewhere.
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Hakeem Jeffries: Brooklyn’s Barack Obama?
Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama?
The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president.
“They’re both African-American, they’re both strikingly handsome, and they’re both highly intelligent,” said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Jeffries supporter. “Both of them have wonderful smiles.”
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Sunday Talk Shows (5/19/12): Chicago Nato Summit, Paul Ryan, Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Gps And More
Guests on the Sunday political talk shows include Rep. Paul Ryan to discuss the budget debate on Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will face off on ABC’s This Week. Other topics across the shows include the NATO Summit in Chicago and the G-8 Summit at Camp David.
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Bristol Bay Mining Would Harm Alaska Salmon Habitat, Epa Analysis Says
Large-scale mining operations in Alaska’s Bristol Bay will harm habitat for wild salmon, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a draft assessment Friday, but agency officials said they had not decided whether they would move to block a proposal for a major gold and copper mine there.
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Energy Department Cuts Payments To 4 Federal Lab Workers
Four high-ranking federal lab workers found a way to turn “per diem” funds for a temporary assignment into a steady flow of extra income — at taxpayers’ expense. The overpayments, discovered in an inspector general’s audit, boosted the annual pay of some of the employees by as much as $64,000.
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Conservative Groups Outspending Liberal Counterparts 4 To 1 On Congressional Races
Conservative interest groups have dumped well over $20 million into congressional races so far this year, outspending their liberal opponents 4 to 1 and setting off a growing panic among Democrats struggling to regain the House and hold on to their slim majority in the Senate.
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