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1 hr ago | CNN

Senate health care debate to focus on Dems' divide

With Republican opposition unanimous so far, the Senate debate starting Monday on a comprehensive health care bill will focus on bridging differences among the majority Democrats.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Democrat, Nebraska, Evan Bayh, Richard Lugar, Republican

10 hrs ago | CBS2

Levin: Economy Too Poor For War Tax

Share + Nov 29, 2009 11:23 am US/Central WASHINGTON 1 of 1 Senator Carl Levin said a war tax on higher-earning Americans is not out of the question to support a surge of troops in Afghanistan, but believed such a tax is now too late.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics, US House of Representatives, David Obey

15 hrs ago | Free Republic

Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 29 November 2009

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY : Sens.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Arkansas Government, US News, US Politics, Mike Huckabee, Entertainment, Drama, Television, US Military, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, US Army, Charitable Organizations, US Senate, Democrat

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Sacramento Bee

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Bernard Sanders, Democrat, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Detroit Free Press

Obama is to unveil his plan for Afghanistan on Tuesday

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50% increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, US Politics, Hillary Clinton, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Think Progress

ThinkFast: November 23, 2009

The federal government faces " a trifecta of headaches : a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed." Still, the NYT's Paul Krugman warns that a phantom debt menace could ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, Luis Gutierrez, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Immigration Reform, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Senate

Daily Kos

Foes of Afghan Escalation Step Up Opposition

Add David Obey to the increasingly vocal foes of General Stanley McChrystal's proposed escalation of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a group that includes Arlen Specter and the 57 Congresspeople who signed Massachusetts Congressmen James McGovern's letter to the President.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, David Obey, US House of Representatives, Democrat, James McGovern, US Senate

SooToday

Bart battles Great Lakes algae blooms

NEWS RELEASE CONGRESSMAN BART STUPAK 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN ************************* Stupak bill to limit phosphorus, address algae blooms in Great Lakes WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Bart Stupak has introduced legislation to limit domestic cleaning products, such as laundry detergents and dish washer soap, from containing more ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Bart Stupak, Democrat, Candice Miller, Republican, US Senate, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Stone Soup Musings

Sen. Carl Levin is The Real Deal

The Republican Party is staking its future on people like Sarah Palin for commonsense solutions to our nation's problems.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, World News, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Tax

CBS News

Wis. Rep. Obey Calls for War Tax on Wealthy

Updated 12:52 p.m. ET Rep. David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is the latest lawmaker to call for a new tax aimed at the rich to pay for a troop increase in Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, David Obey, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, US Senate

Sun Nov 22, 2009

KVII

Fort Hood suspect in pretrial confinement

Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan has been placed in pretrial confinement, but will remain in a San Antonio military hospital.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Democrat, US News

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Marine Corps Times

Levin: No hearings on gay ban until 2010

Promised December congressional hearings into President Barack Obama's proposed repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on service by gays will be postponed until next year so the Senate Armed Services Committee can concentrate on investigating the Fort Hood shootings, according to the committee chairman.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Democrat, US News

BizzyBlog.com

Tax Increase Campaign Item 3: Wars Cost Money And Rich Must Pay, MI Senator Levin Tells Bloomberg

At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Tax, David Obey, US House of Representatives, Wisconsin, Barack Obama

Fri Nov 20, 2009

KBCI CBS 2

Levin: May be more troubling emails from Hasan

There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX, Terrorism, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Denton Record-Chronicle

Defense Secretary Robert Gates: We must find military threats

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered all branches of the military Thursday to seek better ways of "identifying service members who could potentially pose credible threats to others." He also announced that the Army will study whether it could have prevented the massacre at Fort Hood.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX, Terrorism, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Detroit Free Press

$4M set aside for study to retrain autoworkers

The Department of Labor is providing $4 million for a study of displaced autoworkers in hopes of identifying opportunities to retrain them for work in alternative energy fields.

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Energy, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

North Jersey Media Group

IRS amnesty draws 14,700

MIAMI a ' More than 14,700 U.S. taxpayers came forward to disclose billions in offshore bank accounts in 70 countries under a voluntary Internal Revenue Service program allowing most to avoid criminal prosecution as long as they pay what they owe, IRS officials said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Prison, Tax, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Tue Nov 17, 2009

AZCentral.com

Senator criticizes White House on Fort Hood briefings

Sen. Susan Collins is criticizing the Obama administration's briefings on the Ft.

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Related Topix: Fort Hood, TX, US Military, US News, US Army, Fort Hood, Susan Collins, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Democrat

Los Angeles Times

Senate blocks effort to halt facility upgrades in U.S. for Guantanamo detainees

Reporting from Washington - The Democratic-controlled Senate today thwarted an effort to block spending for upgrading facilities in the United States for housing prisoners transferred from Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, a move that Illinois officials feared could have complicated efforts to place detainees at a prison in their state.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Cuba, World News, US Politics, James Inhofe, US News, US Senate, Republican, Chicago Metro, Democrat

Mon Nov 16, 2009

FoxNews.com

Senate Committee Postpones Fort Hood Hearing At Request of White House

The Senate Armed Services Committee postponed its Monday briefing on the deadly Fort Hood massacre at the request of the White House -- despite calls from some lawmakers to press forward with a congressional investigation into the shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded 29.

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Related Topix: US News, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, US Politics, Peter Hoekstra, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Democrat, John McHugh

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