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Over 100 Immigration Activists Arrested in D.C. as Partisanship Paralyzes Congress
Thirteen-year-old Stephanie Roman-Reyes can identify with the tens of thousands of refugee children in danger of deportation along the southern U.S. border.Huddled beneath a tree in Lafayette Squ ...
04 Aug, 2014
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How Do We Define the Political Center on Privacy?
While the U.S. political scene is often described as polarized, many members within the major political parties can agree on one issue: privacy and surveillance. From Democrats like Dianne Feinstein a ...
04 Aug, 2014
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2 States, D.C. to Let Voters Decide Fate of Marijuana Legalization
A plume is haunting America -- the plume of legal marijuana. The November ballots of two states, Oregon and Alaska, and the District of Columbia will include initiatives to legalize recreational marij ...
31 Jul, 2014
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Independent Candidates See 2014 as Opportunity for Change in Washington
Despite consistently low approval ratings of Congress, candidates outside the Democratic and Republican parties have faced an uphill battle gaining enough exposure and credibility to get elected.Since ...
28 Jul, 2014
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Harry Reid: The Most Powerful Man in Congress
The current era, dubiously named “the New Gilded Age” by more than a few journalists, is characterized not only by extreme inequality of wealth, and therefore power, but also the concentration of ...
21 Jul, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- July 16, 2014
1. California No Party Preference candidate Dan Schnur published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News about the growing independent voting bloc and the future of politics."Independent voters are no ...
16 Jul, 2014
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What Happens if the Highway Trust Fund Gets Too Low?
By the time Dwight David Eisenhower became president of the United States, he had already secured historical immortality as the supreme commander of the victorious Allied Forces in the Second World Wa ...
15 Jul, 2014
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Ill. GOP Hopeful Mike Bost Forms Small Business Coalition to Compete in CD-12
In Illinois, a Republican challenger recently announced the formation of a small business coalition he hopes will carry him to an upset victory in November.Currently a representative in the General As ...
14 Jul, 2014
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Independent Congressional Candidate Chris Stockwell Says He Can Win in Mass.
In an already hotly contested race for the congressional seat in Massachusetts’ sixth district, an independent candidate has just thrown his hat into the ring.Chris Stockwell, an avowed centrist and p ...
07 Jul, 2014
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Lobbyists Spend over $3 Billion a Year to Influence Legislation
In American folklore, it is President Grant who coined the term “lobbyists” to designate those influence peddlers who attempted to bribe him with whiskey and cigars during his jaunts to the Willard Ho ...
01 Jul, 2014
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