WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel is poised to take the first step toward ending a decades-old U.S. ban on travel to Cuba and removing other hurdles to food sales to the Caribbean island...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S61420100629?type=politicsNews
Republican leaders threatened the lawmaker, Representative Joe L.
Barton of Texas, with the loss of his seat on the House energy committee.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/us/politics/18barton.html
Chief Deputy Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.
House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-Ohio) charge of negligence on the part of the White House in the Gulf oil spill cleanup.
Republican Rep.
Ginny Brown-Waite made a surprise retirement announcement on the same day as her states filing deadline for office. Citing persistent health problems� the lawmaker said she came to the disappointing and sad conclusion that I cannot run for re-election.� The 11th hour move gave Florida Republicans little maneuvering room, ...
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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/04/30/fla-house-republican-to-retire/?mod=wsj_share_digg
A legislator from Virginia cites a passage from the Bible that says if a woman has a child with some kind of disability, then she must have aborted her first pregnancy based on dramatic evidence.� Now, if the Bible is true as this lawmaker claims, then Sarah Palin had an abortion the first time she was pregnant because her baby has Down syndrome.
A book due out this week by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin has all the right politicos sweating and backpedaling, from John McCain to the Senate majority leader, and even Bill and Hillary Clinton.
But it's former lawmaker Sarah Palin who takes it on the nose. -=W/ VIDEO=-
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/authors-mccain-aides-worried-palin-mentally-unstable/
