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House GOP rejects 2-month payroll tax cut
Republicans controlling the chamber are demanding immediate negotiations with the Senate on a year-long plan.
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D.C. Council approves ethics reforms
The D.C. Council has approved a broad package of ethics reforms and sent it to Mayor Vincent Gray for his signature.
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VOTE: Should convicted public servants keep their pension?
ABC7 learned Tuesday night that despite his conviction and jail sentence, Jack Johnson is still eligible to get his pension from Prince George's County. Should convicted public servants get their pensions? Take our poll.
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Report: House GOP to vote down payroll tax extension
House Democrats and Republicans are once again in a stare-down as they put a bill that would extend a payroll tax cut to vote on Monday night, but House GOP members say they'll vote the Senate's version down.
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GOP attacks, defenses heat up as Iowa approaches
As valuable campaign time dwindles before the Iowa caucuses, the frontrunners for the 2012 GOP nomination are busily preparing for the hottest race of the campaign season.
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Gingrich says rivals' criticism taking a toll
Newt Gingrich says unrelenting criticism has taken a toll as Mitt Romney stepped up insider attacks in hopes of regaining front-runner status with the first presidential vote little more than two weeks away.
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Senate set to vote on temporary spending bill
The Senate is set to vote Saturday on compromise legislation to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months. It's a partial victory for President Obama, but it sets up more fighting in a short period of time.
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Blue Bird on Boehner’s Shoulder
The speaker seemed practically giddy Friday when he walked by a camera stake-out position and loudly sang “Zip-a-dee do dah, Zip-a-dee ay…my, oh my…what a wonderful day!”
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Candidate for D.C. Council arrested for solicitation
The Washington Post reports that a candidate running for D.C. Council’s Ward 7 position was arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute.
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Judges hear Maryland redistricting lawsuit arguments
A lawyer told a three-judge panel on Tuesday that Maryland should have three majority-minority congressional districts instead of two.
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Tensions mount over payroll tax cut extension
In a battle that's described as 'full-throated warfare,' House Republicans are demanding that their Senate counterparts return from vacation to negotiate a longer extension of the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits.
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Boehner wants one-year extension of tax cuts
The House intends to vote down a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut that cleared the Senate late last week, Speaker John Boehner said Monday, and request immediate negotiations on a full-year renewal
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Gov. McDonnell's 2012 budget includes education, Medicaid cuts
Bob McDonnell's new two-year budget for the Commonwealth includes both additions and cuts to funding for public schools throughout the area, as well as potential cuts to Medicaid spending.
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No deal: House GOP leaders torpedo bi-partisan payroll tax cut bill
Top House Republicans rebelled Sunday against a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill extending payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months.
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Inside Washington Dec. 18, 2011
This week on Inside Washington: Republicans try to stop Newt Gingrich. What is it about the man that bugs them? And the end of the war in Iraq.
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Obama signs stopgap measure, awaits spending bill
President Barack Obama has signed a 24-hour stopgap spending measure to keep the government operating as he awaits Senate action on a $1 trillion spending bill.
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Trillion-dollar spending package on track to avert shutdown
Congress appears on track to avert a government shutdown this weekend, even as President Barack Obama's push to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for another year is encountering snags.
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Kissing what? Peaking Now & Tout-It-Out!
Despite Jon Huntsman's lagging poll numbers though, he says he refuses to pay homage to the man who’s now best known for barking “You’re fired!”
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