The Senate's Long Slide to Gridlock
November 26, 2012
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WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Dole had just assumed the mantle of Senate majority leader, after the Republican landslide of 1994, when he confronted a problem. Piles of Republican legislation from Newt Gingrich’s self-styled “revolutionary” House were stacking up in a narrowly divided, more deliberate S...
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WAVY: Lawmakers resume fiscal cliff debate
November 26, 2012
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - Local congressman are back at the bargaining table, trying to find a way to avoid a so-called fiscal cliff. The Hampton Roads region has a lot at stake in this debate. If Congress fails to find a compromise, the Budget Control Act of 2011 will kick in at the end of the year,...
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MSNBC: GOP leader backs off Grover’s tax pledge
November 26, 2012
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By Jane C. Timm House Majority Leader Eric Cantor distanced himself from anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist’s pledge on Monday’s Morning Joe, explaining that solving the fiscal cliff is more important than the pledge he signed as a young member of the Virginia legislature more than a decade ago. “Wh...
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