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Bush: Read more than you watch TV
The Swampby Mark Silva We've seen President Bush in classrooms before - we saw him there on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, at Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., listening to second-graders reading. And we saw him there again......Tags: Ceremonies, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Elementary Schools, Schools, Armed Forces
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Activists launch Web site to deny campaign cash to opponents of public election financing
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Kovacs has contributed to political campaigns since he was a senior in college almost four decades ago. But now he is making a public show of closing his wallet, fed up with Congress' failure to act on pressing issues such as...Tags: Charity, Boston, Colleges and Universities, Lobbying, Campaign Finance
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Two opposites from region are among lucky few to get inaugural tickets
Call Washington BureauJacqueline Hackett and Emily Berret are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. But they'll have at least one thing in common Jan. 20 -- a close-up view of Barack Obama's inauguration. Hackett, a Republican, and Berret, a Democrat, are among the...Tags: Ceremonies, Charlie Dent, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, George Washington University, Jim Gerlach
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Republicans seek to make an example of attorney general nominee
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, brings to his confirmation hearing next week a dream resume and a bull's-eye target with his picture in the middle. Holder will get a Republican grilling...Tags: Laws, Justice and Rights, Bill Clinton, Civil Rights, Al Gore
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Law enforcement wants stimulus money but a conservative scholar garbles the message
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee's first hearing of 2009 was designed to let law enforcement organizations push for a piece of any economic stimulus bill. A conservative scholar, invited by Republicans, didn't follow the script. Two...Tags: Republican Party, Law Enforcement, Bill Clinton, Parliament, Prosecution
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Chris Matthews won't run for Senate, MSNBC says
Special to The Morning CallMSNBC host Chris Matthews on Wednesday put an end to speculation that he was considering a bid for the U.S. Senate, telling his producers that he had decided not to jump into the 2010 race in his home state of Pennsylvania. In a routine production...Tags: Government, Jimmy Carter, Pennsylvania, Keith Olbermann, National Government
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MSNBC's Chris Matthews says he won't run for Senate seat
The Associated PressMSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania. MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines says Matthews told the staff of his "Hardball" show Wednesday that he's not...Tags: Upper House, Primaries, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Parliament
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Judge Suspended Over Phony Protective Order
| The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline has suspended a Philadelphia judge without pay for three months because he issued a phony protective order as a favor to a Romanian diplomat. The court also placed Common Pleas Judge James DeLeon on...Tags: Court Administration, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Rentals, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Constitutional Issues
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Specter: Eric Holder = Alberto Gonzales?
Spin CycleArlen Specter, giving no indication that he has been fooled by any of Eric Holder's various excuses for supporting the pardon of Marc Rich, promises a rough confirmation hearing for the New Yorker in a Senate speech that promises to......Tags: Eric Holder, Campaign Finance, Government, Lawyers, Justice System
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Few GOP moderates may wield abundance of clout
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — The ranks of the moderate Republicans in Congress have been decimated in recent elections, and those who remain in office have been marginalized by their own party, which has veered sharply to the right over the past generation. But...Tags: Laws, Oregon, Maine, Parliament, Upper House
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Pennsylvanians bound for Pennsylvania Ave.
Of The Associated PressSome Pennsylvanians already have canceled plans to attend this month's historic presidential inauguration -- unnerved by the specter of millions of people jamming the nation's capital, potential gridlock on the highways, a scarcity of affordable hotel...Tags: Peter Jackson, Sharon Stone, Democratic National Conventions, Conservation, Alabama
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Moderate Republicans may be in big demand in Senate
Congress has so few moderate Republicans that at least in the Senate they could squeeze into a Volkswagen Beetle. Their ranks have dwindled in recent elections. Those who remain in politics have been marginalized by their own party, which has...Tags: Michael N Castle, Laws, Maine, Parliament, Upper House
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