Pilot: Acquainting Congress with Arithmetic
December 9, 2012
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By Donald Luzzatto The Virginian-Pilot © December 9, 2012 Addition and subtraction aren't hard. But you could hardly tell from watching Washington. As satisfying as that insult was, it doesn't change the reality: The world's biggest math problem is playing out this month in D.C., and it seems to be...
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The New York Times: Boehner Gains Strong Backing From House Republicans
December 5, 2012
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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER WASHINGTON — With a daunting fiscal crisis looming and conservatives outside the House torching him at every turn, Speaker John A. Boehner might be assumed to have a shaky hold on his gavel. Instead, it appears he is enjoying the broadest support of his tumultuous two-year sp...
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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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