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Republican Smith wins Mo. congressional race
Republican state Rep. Jason Smith won a special election Tuesday for a vacant congressional seat in southeast Missouri that had been held by the same political family for the past 32 years. Smith carried about two-thirds of the vote while defeating Democratic state Rep. Steve Hodges and several others in ...
New IRS head says taxpayers no longer trust agency
His agency under relentless fire, the new head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged to Congress on Monday that American taxpayers no longer trust the IRS amid a growing number of scandals — from the targeting of conservative political groups to lavish spending on employee conferences. But Acting Commissioner Danny ...
Obama calls for end to mental illness stigma
President Barack Obama said Monday that he wants to end the stigma of mental illness and enrolled the star power of actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close at a White House conference organized in response to the December shootings at a Connecticut elementary school. The event was designed to encourage ...
Priority legislation in question with 1 week left
South Carolina's legislative session is supposed to end this week, yet all the reform measures that legislators of both parties and chambers called top priorities back in January remain undone, and there's no budget yet for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The issues that angered voters in 2012 ...
THE $2.7 TRILLION MEDICAL BILL
c.2013 New York Times News Service MERRICK, N.Y. — Deirdre Yapalater’s recent colonoscopy at a surgical center near her home here on Long Island went smoothly: She was whisked from pre-op to an operating room where a gastroenterologist, assisted by an anesthesiologist and a nurse, performed the routine cancer screening ...
Mo. US House hopefuls cite Obama, Social Security
The Republican candidate is attempting to link his Democratic opponent to President Barack Obama. The Democrat, meanwhile, is suggesting his Republican rival would dismantle Social Security. Missouri voters have seen this campaign strategy before. The latest to employ it are Republican state Rep. Jason Smith and Democratic state Rep. Steve ...
Republican vs. Republican on covering uninsured
It's Republican versus Republican in the latest round of political battles over health care. Conservative Republican legislators in major states are trying to block efforts by more pragmatic governors of their own party to accept health insurance for more low-income residents under President Barack Obama's health care law. Unlike their ...
Pressing needs test GOP's smaller government stand
President Barack Obama says a government that works properly can be best-equipped to help and protect the public. Republican believers in a less-is-more government generally disagree. Yet on a variety of policy fronts, pressing financial and other needs are forcing Republicans to concede more publicly than usual that minimalist government ...
Paul: GOP needs to become a 'bigger' party
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Friday that Republicans could appeal to a broader electorate in blue states like California by connecting with voters who have shunned the party in the past and by being big enough to agree to disagree on some issues. Paul, who is considering a presidential campaign ...
A respite for Medicare; Social Security no worse
Medicare's long-term health is starting to look a little better, the government said Friday, but both Social Security and Medicare are still wobbling toward insolvency within two decades if Congress and the president don't find a way to shore up the trust funds established to take care of older Americans. ...
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