Wonkbook: Bernanke lashes Congress
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Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: Bernanke to Congress: You’re killing us
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Bernanke to Congress: Seriously, guys, what are you doing?
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Bernanke to Congress: It's your fault
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Congress clears bill on lying about medals
WASHINGTON — Lying about receiving a military medal could become a crime, under a bill headed to the president's desk. The Stolen Valor Act cleared ...
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Stolen Valor Act Passed By Congress
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Heck’s Stolen Valor Act wins swift passage in Congress
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Congress completes work on Stolen Valor Act
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a ...
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Congress: Reid and the filibuster fight
Politico: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is waging an under-the-radar campaign to get his fellow Democrats to back a summertime fight to overhaul ...
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Robert Kaiser on Dodd-Frank: 'This example of Congress working also illuminated why it works so rarely.'
Almost three years ago, the Dodd-Frank Act was enacted, a sweeping piece of legislation aimed at overhauling regulation of the financial system.
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Congress must quit dithering on climate change
Regarding the May 20 op-ed by Rep. Lamar Smith, “Let’s cool our rhetoric on climate change”: Apparently, Mr. Smith (R-Tex.), the chairman of the ...
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IRS watchdog takes turn in hot seat, challenged for keeping scandal from Congress
In an unusual twist to the Capitol Hill probes into the tax agency, lawmakers have started to challenge the government watchdog who uncovered the ...
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Obama nominee vows to work with Congress to fund transportation
By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to be transportation secretary promised on Wednesday to work with Congress to ...
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Congress Crowdsourcing New High-Skilled Immigration Bill, Contribute Here
The U.S. House of Representatives just released its own version of a high-skilled immigration reform bill and is actively seeking input through the ...
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Jennifer Rubin: Iran and Congress rebuke Obama's Syria policy
Two significant events yesterday suggested the president's position on Syria -- inert -- is getting more untenable by the day. ABC News reports: ...
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