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37 min ago | Boston Herald

Maine senators oppose border crossing fees

Maine's two senators are joining other members of Congress in opposing border crossing fee along the northern and southwestern borders.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Angus King, US House of Representatives, Representative Kevin Cramer, Representative Peter Welch, Democrat, Opinion

4 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Dispute over budget widens rift within GOP

Senate Republicans are locked in a widening internal dispute over future budget negotiations, splitting along generational and ideological lines on the party's approach to the central issue that drove the conservative surge in the Obama era: how to deal with the federal debt.

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

Fri May 24, 2013

KATU-TV Portland

Advocate: Military transfer policy hurt Vancouver sex assault victim

PORTLAND, Ore. A Vancouver woman who says her life was in danger after being raped twice at a Texas Air Force base says she's been further victimized by military policies about sexual assault.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, TX, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

Kennebec Journal

Maine delegation ups pressure on DOD to buy American shoes

Members of Maine's congressional delegation are trying to keep up the pressure on the Department of Defense to buy footwear from U.S. manufacturers, a move that would likely benefit the state's New Balance sneaker factories.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Angus King, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Chellie Pingree, Maine, Department of Defense, Skowhegan, ME

Navy Times

Senators: Limit recruits' athletic shoe choices to U.S.-made footwear

Athletic shoe vouchers for Army, Navy and Air Force recruits could be used to purchase only American-made footwear under a bill introduced Thursday by two senators from Maine.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, US Air Force, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Angus King

Bangor Daily News

Collins sounds alarm on shortage of critical Lyme disease drug

Concerned over a shortage of a key medication used to treat Lyme disease, Maine Sen.

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Related Topix: Health, Lyme Disease, Medicine, US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, Democrat, Amy Klobuchar, Law, Healthcare Law, Food and Drug Administration, Doxycycline (generic), Vibramycin, Doryx

Thu May 23, 2013

The Columbus Dispatch

Bill aimed at military sexual assaults 'epidemic' gets more support

WASHINGTON Two senators have signed onto a bill originally introduced by Rep. Mike Turner aimed at stopping what they call an "epidemic" of sexual assault in the Armed Forces.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Niki Tsongas

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, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, John McCain

CBS News

Lawmakers push to punish sexual offenders in the military

On the heels of a recent report detailing 26,000 cases of military sexual assault in 2012 alone, a handful of lawmakers are pushing tough new laws that would punish the perpetrators of these crimes rather than the victim, and which seek to help transform the culture in a military that has been riddled with sexual offense.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, Democrat, Republican, Michael Turner, US House of Representatives

The Advertiser Democrat

A dishonorable level of sex crimes among the ranks

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Prison, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Chellie Pingree

Columbia Journalism Review

How extreme is that legislator, really?

When Republican Scott Brown faced Democrat Martha Coakley in a January 2010 special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he was criticized by Coakley and other Democrats as being too conservative.

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Related Topix: US News, Scott Brown, US Senate, Republican, Edward Kennedy, Democrat, University of Chicago, US Politics, Olympia Snowe

Wed May 22, 2013

The Hill

Scandal of dysfunction

Amid scrutiny and oversight of the Obama administration's many failures and the scandals that have resulted, it's easy to forget that Congress has failed - once more - to fulfill its statutory duty to pass an annual budget by April 15.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Olympia Snowe, Harry Reid, Democrat, Opinion

Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

Ted Cruz: 'I Don't Trust The Republicans'

Source: TPM Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday defended his objection to initiating House-Senate budget negotiations unless Democrats take a debt limit increase off the table, saying he doesn't trust his party to hold the line.

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Related Topix: US News, Senator Ted Cruz, US Politics, US Senate, John McCain, Republican, Liberal Political News

Tue May 21, 2013

The Hill

McCain bucks party by objecting to restrictions on budget conferees

Sen. John McCain bucked members of his own party Tuesday by objecting to a GOP request to prohibit budget committee conferees from raising the debt ceiling.

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

Sun May 19, 2013

Sun Journal

Let the light of day shine

As members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King now are faced with a particularly important opportunity - the chance to finally publicize this country's use of torture since 9/11. In December, the Intelligence Committee approved a 6,000-page report on the CIA's use of torture on post-9/11 detainees.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Olympia Snowe, Senator Angus King

Sun Journal

A dishonorable level of sex crimes among the ranks

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Prison, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Chellie Pingree

Fri May 17, 2013

TheStreet.com

Why the End of 'Craft' Beer Is Just a Tax Break Away

Garret Oliver has been brewmaster at The Brooklyn Brewery since 1994. He was the brewmaster at Manhattan Brewing before that and has served as editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer , written two other books on beer and continues to make a series of brews that gets all the beer geeks excited.

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Related Topix: Beer, Drink, Tom Latham, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Ron Kind, Democrat, Iowa, US Senate

Wisconsin Gazette

Gays 'thrown under the bus' in immigration bill

The Senate Judiciary Committee is marking up the massive bill that leaders in both parties agree presents the best opportunity to reform immigration policy in decades.

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

Thu May 16, 2013

SFGate

Senate confirms Orrick as federal judge

A divided U.S. Senate confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of William Orrick III , a former top immigration lawyer in President Obama's Justice Department , to the federal court in San Francisco.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Senator Jeff Flake, Republican, Lisa Murkowski

MSNBC

Gillibrand leads Senate charge for protocol changes in military sexual assault cases

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday proposed major changes to military laws for sexual assault cases, backing a bill to prevent military commanders from handling sexual assault cases that involve their subordinates.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Dan Benishek