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Primary Sweep Has Romney 1 Win from GOP Nomination
Last Updated: 6:34 PM 05/23/12 - Mitt Romney swept all the delegates in GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas and picked up more endorsements from party leaders, putting him one win away from claiming the Republican nomination for president.
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Romney to Propose Voucher-Like Education Overhaul
Last Updated: 9:48 AM 05/23/12 - Shifting from the economy to education, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was proposing a voucher-style system that could significantly alter the public school system and revive the debate over school choice.
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Powell Not Ready to Endorse Obama for Re-Election
Last Updated: 12:06 PM 05/22/12 - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time.
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Reno Assemblyman Calls for Campaign Reforms
Last Updated: 7:49 AM 05/22/12 - Assemblyman Pat Hickey called for tightening Nevada's campaign contribution reporting laws and shortening election cycles Monday, saying under the current system lawmakers spend too much time raising money and taxing the patience of voters.
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House OKs $642 Billion Defense Bill
Last Updated: 10:04 AM 05/18/12 - The House has passed a $642 billion defense bill despite a White House veto threat.
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House OKs Continued War in Afghanistan
Last Updated: 4:33 PM 05/17/12 - The House is backing continuation of the war in Afghanistan.
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Congressional GOP Pushes for Action on Taxes
Last Updated: 3:01 PM 05/17/12 - Republican lawmakers are intensifying their demands for quick congressional action on the tax code.
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Senate Democrats Reject House GOP Budget Plan
Last Updated: 3:45 PM 05/16/12 - Democrats controlling the Senate rejected for the second year in a row Wednesday a budget plan passed by House Republicans.
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George W. Bush Offers Tepid Endorsement of Romney
Last Updated: 3:13 PM 05/15/12 - George W. Bush is backing presumptive Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney.
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Shift on Marriage Energizes Immigration Activists
Last Updated: 1:15 PM 05/15/12 - President Barack Obama's shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who are working side-by-side with gay activists in their push for immigration reform. The alliance has been growing across the country.
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Obama on Gay Marriage: 'Right Thing to Do'
Last Updated: 3:55 PM 05/14/12 - President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it "expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody."
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Paul: 'We Will No Longer Spend Resources'
Last Updated: 2:12 PM 05/14/12 - Ron Paul says he is done spending money on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Obama Seeks to Undercut Romney's Record on Jobs
Last Updated: 11:35 AM 05/14/12 - President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials.
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GOP: Economy Tops Gay Marriage as Campaign Issue
Last Updated: 10:26 AM 05/12/12 - President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too.
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Romney Campaign Responds to Obama’s Nevada Visit
Last Updated: 4:20 PM 05/11/12 - In a brief conference call ahead of President Barak Obama’s visit to Reno, U.S. Congressman Mark Amodei and Nevada Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki raised important questions about the Presidents visit and focus on housing.
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Obama, Backing Gay Marriage, on Fundraising Tour
Last Updated: 4:03 PM 05/10/12 - President Barack Obama said Vice President Joe Biden got "a little bit over his skis" in publicly embracing gay marriage, forcing Obama to speed up his own plans to announce support for the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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Romney Says Obama Has Failed on Energy Policy
Last Updated: 10:27 AM 05/09/12 - Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama claiming credit for increased American energy production is akin to Romney saying he was responsible for the Red Sox winning the World Series when he was Massachusetts governor.
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Mitt Romney Wins Three Republican Primaries
Last Updated: 9:49 PM 05/08/12 - Mitt Romney has won the Indiana presidential primary, plus primaries in West Virginia and North Carolina.
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GOP Blocks Senate Debate on Dem Student Loan Bill
Last Updated: 10:15 AM 05/08/12 - Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic bill on Tuesday aimed at keeping interest rates on federal college loans from doubling July 1 in an election-year battle aimed at the hearts- and votes - of millions of students and their parents.
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Obama's Vague Gay Marriage Stance Under Scrutiny
Last Updated: 12:05 AM 05/08/12 - President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny.
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Romney's Son to Speak at Nevada GOP Convention
Last Updated: 7:02 PM 05/04/12 - The son of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will be in Sparks on Saturday to address the Nevada Republican convention.
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Gingrich Ends Campaign, No Endorsement for Romney
Last Updated: 3:17 PM 05/02/12 - Newt Gingrich can now call himself a former presidential candidate.
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Gingrich Expected to End Presidential Run
Last Updated: 12:44 PM 05/02/12 - As Newt Gingrich prepared to abandon his presidential bid, President Barack Obama saw it as an opportunity to swipe at Mitt Romney.
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Obama in Afghanistan, Sees 'Light of a New Day'
Last Updated: 9:32 PM 05/01/12 - On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. "We can see the light of a new day on the horizon," he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.
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Highlights of US-Afghanistan Agreement
Last Updated: 3:15 PM 05/01/12 - Highlights of the strategic partnership agreement signed in Kabul by President Barack Obama and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai outlining the relationship between their countries after the U.S.-led war ends in 2014:
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APNewsBreak: Paul Campaign Ignored Army Inquiries
Last Updated: 9:40 AM 05/01/12 - Documents show Ron Paul's presidential campaign didn't return repeated messages from an Army investigator looking into a soldier who endorsed Paul in uniform at an Iowa rally.
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Gingrich Thanks Campaign Supporters in New Video
Last Updated: 9:23 AM 05/01/12 - Newt Gingrich thanked supporters Tuesday, a day before he officially leaves the Republican presidential race, and pledged to work hard to prevent the "genuine disaster" he says would come from re-electing President Barack Obama.
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Romney Says He Would Have Ordered bin Laden Killed
Last Updated: 2:14 PM 04/30/12 - Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says "of course" he would have ordered Osama bin Laden killed.
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Obama, Clintons Deepen Political and Policy Ties
Last Updated: 10:04 PM 04/29/12 - Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine political and policy partnership. Both sides have a strong incentive in making the alliance work, especially in an election year.
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Romney Predicts Recovery, Ignores New Numbers
Last Updated: 3:06 PM 04/27/12 - Mitt Romney says the nation's economy is recovering. But he says it could be recovering much faster.
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GOP Ignores Veto Threat, Passes Student Loan Bill
Last Updated: 10:20 AM 04/27/12 - Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and passed a bill to keep interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling this summer.
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Senate OKs Renewing Violence Against Women Act
Last Updated: 4:54 PM 04/26/12 - The Senate overcame election-year gender politics Thursday to pass a bill renewing the government's main domestic violence program.
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Political Battle Over Student Loans Heating Up
Last Updated: 2:14 PM 04/26/12 - House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of conduct "beneath the dignity of the White House." The top House Democrat said Boehner considers the health of women "a luxury."
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Migrant Case Could Lead to Sweeping Changes
Last Updated: 10:58 AM 04/26/12 - The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration if the Supreme Court follows through on its suggestion that it would let local police enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's immigration law.
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Speaker: House to Vote Friday on Student Loans
Last Updated: 5:00 AM 04/26/12 - The House will vote Friday on a Republican bill preventing interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer, paid for by cutting money from President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday.
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House Backs Bill Capping Gov't Spending on Junkets
Last Updated: 11:26 AM 04/25/12 - Outraged by lavish government conferences on the taxpayers' tab, the House has backed a measure to impose tough limits on future events and how much agencies can spend.
Gingrich to End Presidential Campaign
Last Updated: 1:24 PM 04/25/12 - Two advisers to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich say he will formally end is campaign next Tuesday and will likely to endorse Mitt Romney.
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Obama Woos Students, Pushes Low-Rate Student Loans
Last Updated: 1:11 PM 04/24/12 - President Barack Obama went after the college vote Tuesday, pitching cheaper student loans as he courted the one age group where he has a decided advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney. The twist? Romney, too, has endorsed the idea.
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Romney Eyes 5 More Wins, Promises 'Better America'
Last Updated: 1:13 PM 04/24/12 - The suspense gone, Mitt Romney glided into five primaries on Tuesday as the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, piling up national convention delegates while commanding the spotlight to sharpen his appeal for the campaign against President Barack Obama.
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Social Security Heading for Insolvency Even Faster
Last Updated: 3:16 PM 04/23/12 - Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program.
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A Divided Congress Confronts a Rising Cyberthreat
Last Updated: 10:57 AM 04/21/12 - The mysterious caller claimed to be from Microsoft and offered step-by-step instructions to repair damage from a software virus. The electric power companies weren't falling for it.
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More Secret Service Agents Gone; Obama Briefed
Last Updated: 6:01 PM 04/20/12 - A White House official says President Barack Obama has been briefed by the director of the Secret Service on the investigation into the agency's prostitution scandal.
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Romney Pulls in $12M as Obama Builds War Chest
Last Updated: 2:50 PM 04/20/12 - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign raised $12.6 million in contributions in March, adding to roughly $14 million his Republican Party brought in last month. But the combined figure puts Romney at a disadvantage with the man whose job he wants in November.
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WH: Obama 'Silver Spoon' Remark Not About Romney
Last Updated: 11:30 AM 04/19/12 - The White House says President Barack Obama wasn't talking about Republican Mitt Romney when the president said he "wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth."
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Reid: Secret Service Agents Were 'Stupid'
Last Updated: 4:40 PM 04/19/12 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the 11 Secret Service employees under investigation for cavorting with prostitutes were "stupid," and there's not much Congress can do to stop others from making the same choices.
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2nd Panel Blasts GSA for Parties, Trips, Bonuses
Last Updated: 3:43 PM 04/17/12 - General Services Administration witnesses came under sharp criticism from Congress for a second day on Tuesday, as lawmakers expressed outrage over junkets, bonuses and parties paid for by taxpayers.
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GOP to Cut Food Stamps in Deficit-Reduction Drive
Last Updated: 9:10 AM 04/17/12 - Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps and would make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to claim child tax credits as they piece together legislation to cut $261 billion in the coming decade.
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House Speaker Endorses Mitt Romney for President
Last Updated: 9:38 AM 04/17/12 - House Speaker John Boehner has finally endorsed Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee, saying his economic policies would help the unemployed find jobs.
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GOP Derails Senate 'Buffett Rule' Taxes on Wealthy
Last Updated: 10:23 PM 04/16/12 - Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic "Buffett rule" bill Monday forcing the nation's top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, using the day before Americans' taxes are due to defy President Barack Obama on one of his signature election-year issues.
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Romney: Obama Will Erode the Rights of Gun Owners
Last Updated: 8:11 PM 04/13/12 - The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners.
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