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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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Independent Greg Orman Says We Need Real Problem Solvers in Washington
United States Senate seats from Kansas have comprised of a constant stream of Republican politicians since George McGill (D) lost his re-election bid in 1938. Kansas is considered, at least in nationa ...
30 Jun, 2014
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Senate Candidate Kevin Terrell Says Minnesotans Are His Only Special Interest
Editor's note: This article has been updated from the original published draft. The article said Mr. Terrell has first-hand experience with Somalia suspects. This is not the case, and the article has ...
26 Jun, 2014
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Bipartisan Policy Center Releases Plan to Improve Democracy in America
What does the Bipartisan Policy Center have in common with the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the First Amendment, and the Civil Rights Movement? They all represent major news stories important enough to be featu ...
25 Jun, 2014
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20,000 New Republican Voters Made All The Difference in Eric Cantor's Defeat
On June 10, 2014, 55 percent of 65,000 voters from more than 700,000 residents in the seventh district of Virginia cast ballots in an open primary with one question. By an 11-point margin, they soundl ...
16 Jun, 2014
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