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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed lawmakers to pass his proposal to provide up to $10 billion in aid to struggling homeowners, saying a failure to address the housing crisis would put the rest of the economy at risk.
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T12:08:13Z
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Highway Trust Fund, which finances U.S. road, bridge and mass-transit projects, may become insolvent just before the November presidential election unless lawmakers lock in additional funding sources. The fund, which ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T05:05:52Z
PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said the future of Congress is bleak and the party will suffer badly in the next Lok Sabha elections. Talking to media on the sidelines of the 'Janata ke durbar mein mukhya mantri' programme, he said ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T15:21:29Z
Stung by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's criticism of its senior leaders LK Advani and Narendra Modi on the issue of corruption, BJP on Monday hit back saying he cannot see corruption at the Centre and has accepted defeat in Uttar ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T14:09:54Z
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has endorsed Athens Law Director Pat Lang in his bid for U.S. Congress, the campaign announced last week. Lang is running for Ohio's 15 th U.S. House District, a newly drawn district that now includes most of Athens County ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T23:59:15Z
Sanjay Dutt claims it was good friend Amar Singh who reminded him of his family's long association with the party and advised him to return to the fold Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt yesterday claimed that his return to the Congress Party came after advice to ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T04:44:24Z
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States.
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T16:25:55Z
Time to catch up with developments on the “inside-the-Beltway special,” or, to be precise, insider trading by members of Congress. In a blog in mid-December, “On Wall Street and inside the Beltway: Betraying the Public Trust,” I ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T12:36:51Z
Tiruchirappalli: Four local Youth Congress functionaries have been arrested for allegedly attacking Bhartiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu unit Vice President H Raja protesting his remarks against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T13:34:07Z
KOLKATA: The Congress Sunday dismissed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claims of not getting enough financial support from the central government. The party also asserted that it will continue its "constructive criticism" of the ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-05T13:20:59Z
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We look at the pros and cons of having citizen lawmakers - and how it affects the atmosphere at the Statehouse, how things get done, and who runs for office - with Bert Johnson, an associate professor of political science at Middlebury, Scott MacKay ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T15:50:07Z
David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said while campaigns reach out to specific constituents, he's never seen anything "quite like this." "I've never seen pet owners as a key demographic in an election," Damore said.
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T16:04:26Z
“When our political leaders can’t agree on whether climate change ... Jenkins said the results of this study present a clear message to the climate science community. “The message is that they need to re-think their strategy. Many scientists believe ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T17:01:42Z
In the last decade, population growth in Western swing states outpaced the national average, according to David Damore, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. With the Nevada Republican caucus underway ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T14:12:16Z
a Tennessee State University political science professor told a handful of Occupy Nashville members at Legislative Plaza on Saturday. “During an election year, there’s all this political rhetoric because both parties are trying to outdo each ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T07:36:12Z
Pete Stark gave Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich a political poke in the eye today by introducing ... accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, brokerage services, or investment advice or management.
Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T13:48:26Z
CHICAGO—A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement. Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University’s “Occupy Everywhere” class. It’s a political science course that looks at the movement that started last ...
Publ.Date : 2012-02-05T20:16:10Z
The results, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms previous findings that people often separate political views from traditional religious teachings. “Liberals are conceding that they’re deviating ...
Publ.Date : 2012-01-30T23:36:33Z
The University of Iowa has agreed to a $130,000 settlement with a former student who was pressured to let a troubled political science professor fondle her in exchange for a higher grade, her lawyer told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Publ.Date : 2012-02-01T17:43:25Z
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Mitt Romney has taken a commanding lead in the Nevada caucuses, winning almost 50% of the vote reported so far. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich remain in a tough battle for second place with Rick Santorum in a distant fourth.
Rather than be surrounded by supporters on Nevada caucus night, Newt Gingrich surrounded himself with reporters.
Mitt Romney's son Josh talks to CNN about his father's campaign and recent comment on the poor's safety net.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to Ron Paul about Nevada and how long he plans to stay in the race.
Rick Santorum reacts to Mitt Romney's victory in Nevada and looks to the upcoming primaries.
Attorney General Eric Holder will face off with House Republican Darrell Issa Thursday over Mexican-border gun-running, a showdown that comes after Issa and the Justice Department exchanged sharp letters in recent days.
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The issue of race is making a loud appearance in the 2012 presidential race.
Republicans face a defining choice less than a month before the payroll tax holiday expires.
Now it's the former House speaker who's living off his rhetorical chops and conservative unease.
Republicans are losing some Senate money battles. But they might win the war regardless.
He connects them with negative campaigning.
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