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Members of Congress –mostly male and Republican– sleep in their offices to avoid paying rent
They shower and shave in the morning at the gym. Dinners often are warmed up out of a can. And at night, they bunk down in the same cramped offices where, during the day, they conduct the nation’s business. For about 50 members of the US Congress, the office doubles…
Scarborough bucks NRA and past ‘ideologies’ to back gun ban
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who had received an A rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA) while he was in Congress, says that after last week’s massacre of 20 elementary school children that “the ideologies of my past career were no longer relevant,” and he is now backing a ban…
Bernanke steps up warnings over fiscal cliff
WASHINGTON — Fed chairman Ben Bernanke stepped up his warnings Tuesday over the looming “fiscal cliff,” saying its mandatory tax hikes and spending cuts posed a “substantial threat” to US economic recovery. With President Barack Obama’s administration and Congress locked in crunch talks on avoiding the cliff and slashing the…
Md. DREAM Act passage inspires hope for national immigration reform
Misael Garcia, 22, wants to go to school, major in business and open his own restaurant someday. Though he admits that he didn’t grow up thinking he was going to go to college, he was eventually encouraged that he could do it. But when he went to the Community College…
Hurricane Sandy freeze on politics impacts key races for Congress
Hurricane Sandy: Freeze on politics affects key races for Congress, too The presidential campaigns aren’t the only political operations trying to decide what to do after hurricane Sandy swept aside the final-week playbook of this election. The superstorm has upended some tight congressional races as well – putting a weather-related…
U.S. to hit debt limit before Inauguration Day
The United States will hit its statutory borrowing limit near the end of 2012, just as a new Congress gears up to do battle over the country’s huge debt burden and fiscal deficits. The country’s current debt is around $16.2 trillion, and continued borrowing needs to finance the budget shortfall…
Panetta asks Congress to act on defense budget
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday demanded Congress take action after November elections to ensure stable funding for the US military and to break a partisan deadlock over the country’s budget deficit. “When Congress returns to town after the election, there is a great deal of critical work…
Openly LGBT GOP candidate anticipates ‘knuckleheads’ in Congress
An openly LGBT Republican running for Congress in Massachusetts said that if he wins his race, he anticipates there will be “knuckleheads” in Congress that will make his sexual orientation an issue in an interview published on Sunday. “I’m sure that there are a few knuckleheads that will, you know, look at me…
Obama urges Congress to pass ‘no-brainer’ mortgage relief
US President Barack Obama urged Congress Saturday to pass a mortgage plan to help troubled homeowners refinance their loans and save $3,000 a year. “It’s a plan that we know will work,” the president said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “It has the support of independent, non-partisan economists…
Obama urges Congress to pass mortgage plan
US President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to pressure Congress to pass his mortgage refinancing plan, arguing it would help working families and strengthen the middle class. “Show up at their town hall and tell them that when Congress comes back to Washington, they better come back ready to…
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