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Benghazi Again
Republicans never run out of dead horses to whip.
Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The GOP-led [...]
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New conservative lobbying push for gay marriage
BY PATRICK CONDON, ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A national group of prominent GOP donors that supports gay marriage is pouring new money into lobbying efforts to get Republican lawmakers to vote to make it legal.
American Unity PAC was formed last year to lend financial support [...]
From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at April 28, 2013, 11:06am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs
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Republican lawmakers won't hear Bright Futures bill
Two Democrats have a plan that would prevent thousands of black and Hispanic students from losing out on Bright Futures scholarships.
There's just one problem: Nobody seems willing to listen.
Starting next year, Florida students will need to post higher scores on the SAT and ACT scores to qualify for the state-funded [...]
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Sinking To A New Level of Stupid
Number of comments: 5This is not from The Onion. It really happened.
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee sprung to action and demanded answers after confusing a mop sink recently installed in the state Capitol for a Muslim foot-washing sink.
Members of the state House and Senate contacted state Senate Clerk Russell Humphrey to ask [...]
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Health care workers criticize Weatherford stance on Medicaid expansion
Using characters from the "Wizard of Oz" to drive their point, health care workers rallied at the Capitol today in support of Medicaid expansion. Alongside men dressed in costumes to portray the Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Man, speakers encouraged Republican lawmakers to "have a heart," "have courage" and [...]
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Contemptible
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Speaking of tantrums:The House of Representatives voted Thursday to make Eric H. Holder Jr. the first sitting attorney general held in contempt of Congress in U.S. history after he withheld documents that Republican lawmakers demanded as part of an investigation into a flawed gunrunning operation.
The vote — [...]
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Florida law against Cuba may help Cuba
The oddest thing about Florida’s new state law to punish foreign companies that do business in Cuba is not that it is an election season gimmick by Republican lawmakers to win Cuban-American votes, nor that it is likely to cost taxpayers a lot before it ends up defeated in the [...]
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Sen. Marco Rubio refutes Gov. Rick Scott on Cuba crackdown law
Sen. Marco Rubio joined the chorus of Republican lawmakers who disagree with Gov. Rick Scott for calling a Cuba-crackdown bill unenforceable and unconstitutional.
“I believe that it’s constitutional,” Rubio told The Miami Herald and WLRN-Miami Herald News, “but I don’t sit on the Supreme Court. So it’s not going to be [...]
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