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Senate Session 2011-07-30 (15:13:27-16:18:02) Senate Session 2011-07-30 (15:13:27-16:18:02) The Senate took up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plan for the debt reduction. Rated: 5     Duration: 3876 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:53:23 PDT	Senate Session 2011-07-30 (18:31:23-19:32:30) Senate Session 2011-07-30 (18:31:23-19:32:30) The Senate took up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plan for the debt reduction. Rated: -1     Duration: 3668 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:47:08 PDT	Senate Session 2011-06-30 (15:57:51-17:01:09) Senate Session 2011-06-30 (15:57:51-17:01:09) After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 12 pm), Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of David H. Petraeus ... Rated: 5     Duration: 3799 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:49:08 PDT	Senate Session 2012-09-21 (11:59:50-13:47:00) Senate Session 2012-09-21 (11:59:50-13:47:00) After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 12 pm), Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of David H. Petraeus ... Rated: 5     Duration: 3799 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:49:08 PDT Rated: 4.5     Duration: 6431 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:24:21 PDT
Senate Session 2011-11-29 (15:29:40-16:44:47) Senate Session 2011-11-29 (15:29:40-16:44:47) The Senate resumed consideration of S.1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. Rated: -1     Duration: 4508 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:03:10 PST	Senate Session 2011-07-30 (20:34:01-21:34:34) Senate Session 2011-07-30 (20:34:01-21:34:34) The Senate took up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plan for the debt reduction. Rated: -1     Duration: 3634 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:26:22 PDT	Senator Norm Coleman | USGLC Impact 2012 Symposium Senator Norm Coleman | USGLC Impact 2012 Symposium For more photos & videos, visit www.usglc.org Rated: 3     Duration: 1006 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:21:33 PDT	Senate Session 2011-09-22 (12:56:52-14:04:04) Senate Session 2011-09-22 (12:56:52-14:04:04) For more photos & videos, visit www.usglc.org Rated: 3     Duration: 1006 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:21:33 PDT Rated: -1     Duration: 4032 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:31:13 PDT
Senate Session 2011-05-25 (12:15:50-13:21:32) Senate Session 2011-05-25 (12:15:50-13:21:32) LIVE US SENATE tba Rated: 1     Duration: 3943 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:18:20 PDT	Senate Session 2011-10-06 (16:11:29-17:20:26) Senate Session 2011-10-06 (16:11:29-17:20:26) LIVE US SENATE tba Rated: 1     Duration: 3943 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:18:20 PDT Rated: 4     Duration: 4137 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:22:08 PDT	Bipartisan Fiscal Commission Bipartisan Fiscal Commission The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform addresses our nation's mid- and long-term fiscal challenges in a series ... Rated: 3.6086957     Duration: 8656 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:05:59 PDT	Senate Session 2011-11-18 (09:00:03-10:31:16) Senate Session 2011-11-18 (09:00:03-10:31:16) The Senate convened to resume consideration of S.1867, the Department of Defense Authorization Act. Rated: -1     Duration: 5474 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:17:37 PST
Senate Session 2011-11-10 (15:48:01-16:54:20) Senate Session 2011-11-10 (15:48:01-16:54:20) The Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, it began consideration of the motion to proceed to SJRes.27, a joint ... Rated: -1     Duration: 3979 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:23:20 PST	Senate Session 2011-03-16 (11:35:25-12:35:52) Senate Session 2011-03-16 (11:35:25-12:35:52) The Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, it began consideration of the motion to proceed to SJRes.27, a joint ... Rated: -1     Duration: 3979 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:23:20 PST Rated: 5     Duration: 3628 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:22:00 PDT	Senate Session 2011-11-18 (11:44:38-12:53:40) Senate Session 2011-11-18 (11:44:38-12:53:40) The Senate convened to resume consideration of S.1867, the Department of Defense Authorization Act. Rated: 5     Duration: 4143 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:55:10 PST	Senate Session 2012-06-06 (15:29:56-16:31:16) Senate Session 2012-06-06 (15:29:56-16:31:16) The Senate resumed consideration of the motion to proceed to S 3240, the farm bill. Rated: -1     Duration: 3681 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:44:47 PDT
Senate Session 2011-05-25 (10:00:21-11:10:44) Senate Session 2011-05-25 (10:00:21-11:10:44) LIVE US SENATE tba Rated: -1     Duration: 4224 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:18:16 PDT	Senate Session 2012-06-12 (10:59:50-12:00:49) Senate Session 2012-06-12 (10:59:50-12:00:49) The Senate considered the judicial nomination of Andrew Hurwitz. Rated: -1     Duration: 3660 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:14:23 PDT	Senate Session 2011-04-12 (09:59:57-11:03:24) Senate Session 2011-04-12 (09:59:57-11:03:24) The Senate considered the judicial nomination of Andrew Hurwitz. Rated: -1     Duration: 3660 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:14:23 PDT Rated: 3.6666667     Duration: 3808 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:47:36 PDT	Senate Session 2011-09-14 (12:43:26-13:50:36) Senate Session 2011-09-14 (12:43:26-13:50:36) The Senate considered the judicial nomination of Andrew Hurwitz. Rated: -1     Duration: 3660 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:14:23 PDT Rated: 3.6666667     Duration: 3808 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:47:36 PDT Rated: 1     Duration: 4030 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:24:53 PDT
Senate Session 2011-11-17 (16:29:29-17:36:16) Senate Session 2011-11-17 (16:29:29-17:36:16) The Senate convened for a period of morning business and thereafter began consideration of S.1867, the Department of Defense Authorization Act ... Rated: 5     Duration: 4007 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:39 PST	Senate Session 2011-06-21 (11:06:16-12:10:01) Senate Session 2011-06-21 (11:06:16-12:10:01) The Senate convened for a period of morning business and thereafter began consideration of S.1867, the Department of Defense Authorization Act ... Rated: 5     Duration: 4007 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:39 PST Rated: -1     Duration: 3826 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:51:10 PDT	Senate Session 2011-03-09 (12:00:27-13:04:53) Senate Session 2011-03-09 (12:00:27-13:04:53) The Senate convened for a period of morning business and thereafter began consideration of S.1867, the Department of Defense Authorization Act ... Rated: 5     Duration: 4007 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:39 PST Rated: -1     Duration: 3826 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:51:10 PDT Rated: -1     Duration: 3867 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:25:27 PST	Senate Session 2012-06-27 (09:30:02-10:36:14) Senate Session 2012-06-27 (09:30:02-10:36:14) The Senate convened for a period of morning business and thereafter began consideration of S.1867, the Department of Defense Authorization Act ... Rated: 5     Duration: 4007 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:39 PST Rated: -1     Duration: 3826 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:51:10 PDT Rated: -1     Duration: 3867 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:25:27 PST Rated: -1     Duration: 3973 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:06:38 PDT

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The Game Is Called Chicken

Almost immediately after the so-called grand bargain between President Obama and the Republican speaker of the house, John Boehner, unraveled last July, the two sides quickly settled into dueling, self-serving narratives of what transpired behind closed doors. In the months that followed, some of Washingtons most connected Democrats and - By MATT BAI

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Sigwalt and her fellow village trustee Paul Humpfer this past April, they were, understandably, feeling assured, if not emboldened. A few weeks earlier, with the endorsement of the two local newspapers, they were elected to their village board on the platform that their town, Carpentersville, Ill., should do everything in its power to discourage - Alex Kotlowitz article on election of a three-to-two majority to village board in Carpentersville, Ill, who are committed to discouraging illegal immigrants from settling there; Judy Sigwait and Paul Humpfer, newly elected trustees, are driving force behind enactment of ordinance requiring village employees to use only English for official business, and they plan to propose bans on renting to illegal immigrants and hiring them; Tom Roeser, who runs Otto Engineering, nearly half of whose 502 employees are Hispanic, has taken on Sigwait and Humpfer, as has Adam Ruiz, second-generation Mexican-American; Hispanics make up 40 percent of 37,000 people in town, up from 17 percent in 1990, but there are indications that Sigwait-Humpher campaign is prompting some of them to move; photos (L) - Alex Kotlowitz, a regular contributor to the magazine, is a writer in residence at Northwestern University. - By Alex Kotlowitz

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POLITICS/POLICY; The Poverty Platform

In April 1964, when Lyndon Johnson sought to rally public support for his new War on Poverty, he did it while sitting on a pile of two-by-fours on a front porch in Inez, Ky. -- an appearance that helped establish the Appalachian South as a national symbol of economic deprivation. And so it was fitting that John Edwards, announcing his candidacy for - Matt Bai article on antipoverty program at heart of former Sen John Edwardss campaign for president, which rests on using tools of government to favor wage earners over corporations; these tools, predistributionist rather than redistributionist, would divert money from wealthiest Americans before they earn it; include keeping interest rates low because that reduces unemployment and lifts wages, incurring budget deficits to make large-scale social investments in health care and job retraining, tripling earned-income tax credit and creating special savings accounts in which government would match first $500 in saved wages each year; photos (L) - Matt Bai, a contributing writer, covers national politics for the magazine. His book, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, will be published in August. - By Matt Bai

Last ditch effort to avoid fiscal cliff under way - Idaho Statesman

The end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders made a final stab at compromise Friday night to prevent middle-class tax increases from taking effect at the turn of the new year and possibly block sweeping ...

The Accidental Lieutenant

Albany SOMEWHERE in the bowels of the Budget Division, under harsh light, a dozen graying men sat around a table for two hours staring at charts of the states rising debt burden, a tale of looming disaster in deceptively cheerful colors. In the middle, Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch had three paper cups of water lined up in front of him. He had - By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

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The guest list for the White House meeting included Reid, McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. But the key players were clearly Reid and McConnell, both of ...

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All eyes on them, Senate leaders seek fiscal deal. The Seattle Times Senate leaders rushed to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt ...

ALL EYES ON THEM, SENATE LEADERS SEEK FISCAL DEAL

All eyes on them, Senate leaders seek fiscal deal. by admin on Saturday, December 29th, 2012 | Comments Off. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. leaves the White House in Washington Senate leaders rushed to assemble a ...

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A political summit on Friday at the White House left it to the Senate's top Democrat and Republican to work out a possible compromise to avoid the fiscal cliff, participants said. ... Reid and Democrats reject the GOP proposals, which would extend all the Bush tax cuts and revamp the spending cuts of the fiscal cliff, calling them insufficient and saying they would shift too much deficit reduction burden on the .... Chevron Eyes Asia with Canadian Natural Gas Projects ...

Youre Nuts!

It wasnt that long ago that Republican moneymen and operatives in Washington were moping around K Street like Eeyore in the Hundred Acre Wood, lamenting their partys extremist image and casting about for a candidate with a chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012. Citing what he called the near self-immolation of House Republicans during the - By MATT BAI

President Gerald R. Ford, Who Led U.S. Out of Watergate Era, Dies at 93

Former President Gerald R. Ford, who gently led the United States out of the tumultuous Watergate era but lost his own bid for election after pardoning former President Richard M. Nixon, died at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 93, making him the oldest former president, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who died in 2004, by - Former Pres Gerald R Ford, who gently led US out of Watergate era but lost own bid for election after pardoning former Pres Richard M Nixon, dies at age 93; was oldest former president; his 896 days in White House were pivotal ones of national introspection, and he radiated soothing familiarity; he served undefeated through 13 elections to the House and rose to be its Republican leader; became vice president after Spiro T Agnew resigned in Oct 1973 and ascended to presidency in Aug 1974 after Nixon resigned, thus becoming first person to serve as president without having been elected to that office or vice presidency; photos (L) - By JAMES M. NAUGHTON and ADAM CLYMER

Fiscal Cliff - NBC Washington

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THE 2004 ELECTION; Im Ready for the Job, Bush Says in News Conference After Election

Following is a transcript of President Bushs news conference yesterday, as recorded by The New York Times: Opening Statement Yesterday I pledged to reach out to the whole nation. And today Im proving that Im willing to reach out to everybody by including the White House press corps. This week the voters of America set the direction of our nation - Transcript of Pres Bushs news conference following election to second term; photo (L)

The Game Is Called Chicken

Almost immediately after the so-called grand bargain between President Obama and the Republican speaker of the house, John Boehner, unraveled last July, the two sides quickly settled into dueling, self-serving narratives of what transpired behind closed doors. In the months that followed, some of Washingtons most connected Democrats and - Matt Bai article provides a full accounting of how the negotiations over historic deal between Pres Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner to address Americas debt ended in failure. Drawings (L) - By MATT BAI

Update: No 'fiscal cliff' deal yet from White House meeting

18 hours ago ... The president was meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ... If congressional leaders object to his plan, Obama will ask them for a ... If lawmakers have no alternative approach, he will seek an ... But the largest percentage of respondents blamed “all of the above.” .... Sanford eyes US House bid ...

ALL EYES ON THEM, SENATE LEADERS SEEK FISCAL DEAL | Latest News

Senate leaders rushed to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt to find common ground after weeks of postelection gridlock. This ...

ALL EYES ON THEM, SENATE LEADERS SEEK FISCAL DEAL - Nation & World ...

WASHINGTON – Senate leaders rushed to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt to find common ground after weeks of postelection ...

Fiscal Cliff - NBC Miami

Senate leaders say they hope to reach a compromise that could be presented ... If Congress and the president do not agree on a fiscal deal for 2013, ... could have hamstrung ports' operations and roiled close to half of all U.S. container cargo. .... comes after he had earlier said he might consider, but wouldn't actively seek, ...

Fiscal Cliff "Mini-Deal" in the Works, Senate Reauthorizes ...

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Senate leaders pursue fiscal-cliff deal - MarketWatch

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Youre Nuts!

It wasnt that long ago that Republican moneymen and operatives in Washington were moping around K Street like Eeyore in the Hundred Acre Wood, lamenting their partys extremist image and casting about for a candidate with a chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012. Citing what he called the near self-immolation of House Republicans during the - By MATT BAI

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