Articles filed under Politics
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Rand Paul irks senators by mingling while waiting for virus resultsMar 23, 2020 1:00 am - Sen. Rand Paul is coming under fire after exposing other lawmakers to the coronavirus while he was awaiting his own test results - which turned out to be positive. Paul,...
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Fallout of 2008 bailout looms over Washington negotiationsMar 23, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - In the fall of 2008, an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, regulators and Bush administration officials banded together to rescue an economy they feared was ho...
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Provide stimulus for small businesses, not $50 billion bailout for airlinesMar 23, 2020 1:00 am - U.S. airlines are requesting $50 billion of taxpayer money for another bailout. We should not make the same mistake twice. When Congress bailed out the airlines after th...
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Duckworth gets some buzz as potential Biden running mateMar 22, 2020 1:00 am - Could political lightning strike Illinois twice? Thirteen years after Barack Obama launched his campaign for president, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth's name is po...
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In midst of health crisis, need for nuclear power ever more clearMar 22, 2020 1:00 am - We are in the midst of a pandemic, the likes of which has not been seen in our lifetimes. Pandemics have happened in the past. But this time is different from any other ...
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Let's use this crisis to get teachers the pay they deserveMar 22, 2020 1:00 am - By Mark Shields My sainted mother was a public school teacher until she married my father and immediately, as a married woman, was forced by local Massachusetts rules th...
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Congress toils on $1 trillion economic rescue planMar 20, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - As leaders from Congress and the White House toiled in high-stakes negotiations on a mammoth $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package Friday, President Dona...
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Senator Burr asks for ethics probe into his own stock salesMar 20, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, is asking for an ethics review after coming under criticism for selling of...
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COVID-19 could be deadly for American small businessMar 20, 2020 1:00 am - Over the last few weeks, the United States has been grappling with the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic. But the devastating effects have only just begun to...
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Doom, gloom and the drive that strives to overcome it allMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - When I first started thinking about the theme for this column early last week, it was with the idea of sharing with you the impact on a newsroom of covering a sustained ...