CIA’s Former Top Lawyer Fires Back At Senate Report, Criticizes Feinstein
By James Rosen, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The CIA’s former top lawyer disputes Senate findings that the spy agency lied about its brutal interrogations of terrorist ...
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A Few Republicans Push House To Move On Jobless Bill After Senate OK
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — As soon as the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a measure Monday to extend unemployment aid to jobless Americans, a bele ...
Read More »Democratic Turnout Seen As Key To Party’s Retaining Senate Control
By Michael A. Memoli and David Lauter, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Faced with a strong prospect of losing control of the Senate in November, Democrats have begun a hig ...
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Senate Finds CIA Illegally Interrogated Terror Suspects After Sept. 11
By Ali Watkins, Marisa Taylor and David Lightman, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- CIA officers subjected some terrorism suspects it held after the Sept. 11 attacks to in ...
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Senate Democrats And Republicans Divided On Caterpillar’s Tax Avoidance
“Caterpillar is an American success story that produces phenomenal industrial machines, but it is also a member of the corporate-shifting club that has shifted billions of dollars ...
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Top GOP Lawmakers In New Jersey Pass On Chance To Challenge Booker
By Andrew Seidman, The Philadelphia Inquirer TRENTON, N.J. -- Even as the national GOP works to take control of the Senate in November’s midterm elections -- and high-profile chal ...
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Senate Panel Vote On Releasing CIA Study Delayed
By David Lightman and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats, locked in an unprecedented power struggle with the CIA, ...
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Senate Advances Unemployment Benefits Bill, But House GOP Balks
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — A bipartisan agreement to restore unemployment insurance benefits for more than 2.2 million jobless Americans cleared a key ...
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Boehner’s Anti-Unemployment Insurance Excuse Is Falling Apart
Nearly three months after federal unemployment benefits expired for over a million Americans nationwide, House Speaker John Boehner's excuse for refusing to take up a bill to rene ...
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Senators Already In Their Corners In Upcoming Debate Over Ukraine Aid
By William Douglas and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Russia's annexation of Crimea has produced yet another perfect storm in Washington: a fast-moving in ...
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