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2 hrs ago | Daily Kos

Fraud On The Middle Class - "The Real Story On Taxes

While we continue to be distracted by manufactured scandals , Middle Class America, Working America, & Poor America continue to get their clocks cleaned.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul

6 hrs ago | The Washington Post

Native American veterans memorial gets legislative push

Sen. Brian Schatz introduced legislation Thursday to reauthorize the construction of a Native American veterans memorial on the Mall.

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Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, US News, Non-Profit, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Health

Thu May 23, 2013

The Beaumont Enterprise

Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

In this May 21, 2013, photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., expresses his displeasure that Apple CEO Tim Cook was being brought before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee as the panel examines the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul, John McCain, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Mike Lee

KTAR

John McCain requests info from DHS on man suspected of killing cop

Sen. John McCain formerly requested information from the Department of Homeland Safety on a man suspected of killing a Phoenix police officer on Sunday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Phoenix, AZ

CBS News

Video: GOP Sens. slam Obama's suggestion that war on terror "must end"

Flanked by several GOP colleagues who echoed his remarks, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted the president's declaration that the war on terror "must end" as premature and foolhardy, saying that a desire to bring the war "to a compete closure contradicts the reality of the facts on the ground," and arguing that "al Qaeda will be with us for a long ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John McCain, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, John Boehner, US House of Representatives

Stars and Stripes

Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones

President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. In a lengthy address at the National Defense University, Obama defended his ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Cuba, World News, US Senate, Republican

Roll Call

Levin, McCain: Suspend Lois Lerner From IRS Job

In a letter to new IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and ranking member John McCain, R-Ariz., requested Lerner be suspended immediately due to an apparent failure to disclose information to their investigatory subcommittee.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Carl Levin, Democrat, Republican, John McCain

Daily Kos

Multiple fact-checks of Gomez agree: He lies.

The Boston Globe , in a news story, has already called out Massachusetts Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez for his dishonest new ad.

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Related Topix: Scott Brown, US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, John McCain

The Huffington Post

John McCain: Americans 'Are Being Ripped Off' By Cable Companies

John McCain continued his fight for a la carte cable programming that would allow subscribers to pay for just the cable channels they watch on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Andy Samberg, Opinion

WebProNews

John McCain: "ESPN Tax" Needs To Go

John McCain became the best friend of many cable subscribers around the country earlier this month when he introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US News, John McCain

MarketWatch

Bernanke to Congress: You're killing us

Investors understandably paid more attention to Ben Bernanke's views on monetary policy when he testified in Congress this week than to his thoughts on fiscal policy.

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Related Topix: US News, Ben Bernanke, Susan Collins, US Politics, US Senate, Republican

KGUN

Updated: 3:12 a.m.Horne: Border security should be decided by panel

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says a federal immigration reform bill should not allow the Department of Homeland Security to pronounce the U.S.-Mexico border secure.

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Related Topix: Jeff Flake, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Jeff Flake, Republican, US House of Representatives, Arizona, Arizona Government, Immigration Reform

Roll Call

McCain Looks to Defuse 'Nuclear' Threat

McCain and Rubio disagree over how hard the GOP should push debt limit restrictions when allowing the appointment of budget agreement conferees.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John McCain, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz

The Atlantic

John McCain Is the Latest Senior Senator to Have Had Enough of Junior Ted Cruz

For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also about so much more.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John McCain, Senator Rand Paul

Wed May 22, 2013

WBTV

Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action

Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the law.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, John McCain, Carl Levin, Democrat

Free Republic

McCain Attacks Rubio for Opposing Debt Ceiling Increase (when...

On the Senate floor Wednesday, Senator John McCain angrily stated that fellow Republican Senator Marco Rubio was delaying Senate business by objecting to a routine increase of the debt limit.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John McCain, Senator Marco Rubio

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Fears Of Killing Immigration Bill Doomed Same-Sex Amendment

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. , listens to testimony during a hearing on the immigration bill on April 22.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Gay/Lesbian, Republican, John McCain

National Public Radio

Fears Of Killing Immigration Bill Doomed Same-Sex Amendment

After five marathon sessions debating 150 proposed amendments, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a landmark rewriting of the nation's immigration laws this week - and the bill emerged largely intact.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Gay/Lesbian, Republican, John McCain

Reuters

Senate panel backs arming Syria rebels

A Senate panel voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to send weapons to rebels fighting Syria's government, but it was not clear who would get the arms even if the bill succeeds, as Washington struggles to deal with its response to the conflict.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, Republican, US House of Representatives, Senator James Risch, US Senate, Robert Menendez, Democrat

World Magazine

Abortion wars

Arizona Sen. John McCain and other moderate Republicans pointed to ill-fated abortion comments as one reason the GOP lost the 2012 elections and suggested conservative lawmakers should "leave the issue alone" in the future.

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Related Topix: Abortion, US Politics, Trent Franks, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, John McCain, Prison