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October 15, 2010
Tomorrow, the National League Championship series between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies begins. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) have made a high-stakes wager with Ghirardelli and Hershey's chocolates on the line (the winner of the bet will receive a chocolate supply from the loser's district):
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October 15, 2010
This morning, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced there will be no automatic Cost-of-Living-Adjustment for 2011:
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October 14, 2010
Secret money from corporate special interests – that favor shipping American jobs overseas, turning Social Security over to Wall Street and turning Medicare over to the insurance companies – is funding the not-so-secret Republican agenda.
Bruce Josten, Executive Vice President of Government Affairs for the U.S.
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October 13, 2010
As millions of Americans struggle in this economy, the rich and powerful special interests should not be able to drown out the voices of citizens.
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October 13, 2010
A report released by the non-partisan Campaign Money Watch reveals that American jobs have been outsourced in states and districts where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending millions of dollars from secret corporate and possibly foreign donors to drown out the voices of the middle class.
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October 8, 2010
Leader Boehner failed to offer any plan for America; instead, like other Republican leaders, he once again showed he would return to the same discredited policies that drove America's economy into a ditch.
Mr. Boehner couldn't explain why Congressional Republicans have voted 11 times in the last 4 years to protect tax loopholes for corporations that ship American jobs overseas.
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October 8, 2010
Republicans have continued to falsely claim that the Recovery Act "failed" in numerous television ads this year, even after an analysis by the non-partisan FactCheck.org concludes that "more people would be unemployed if not for the stimulus bill."
This afternoon in Ohio, House Republican Leader John Boehner continued
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October 8, 2010
As this year's recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo joins the pantheon of great leaders for non-violence, justice, and freedom throughout history.
Liu Xiaobo is a champion for the best hopes of humankind, a courageous advocate for democracy and human rights in China, whose only crime was putting his political views into writing.
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October 8, 2010
Today in Ohio, House Republican Leader John Boehner is making his "closing argument" (again). According to released excerpts, Mr.
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October 8, 2010
This morning, the Department of Labor announced that in September the unemployment rate remained the same (9.6%), 95,000 total nonfarm jobs were lost, and the private sector added 64,000 jobs—marking the ninth consecutive month of private sector growth with 863,000 private sector jobs created this year: