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Democratic and Republican bills to replace sequester cuts fail in the Senate
Two competing bills aimed at averting huge spending cuts failed Thursday in the US Senate, including a Republican effort that would have ceded authority to the White House to implement the reductions. Both bills fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance, virtually assuring that the $85 billion in…
Maddow: Democrats did not make up the ‘war on women’
On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow cataloged a slew of recent Republican bills that aim to roll back women’s access to contraception and abortion. “Slap an anti-abortion label on it and apparently this year’s model of Republican lawmaker will automatically vote for it,” she quipped. Not surprisingly,…
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