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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Obama hits Fox News — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel. — Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native, who said “Immigrants have made America great as the world leader in business …
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Democrats to reintroduce DREAM Act — Senate Democrats will re-introduce the long-stalled DREAM Act, hoping to tap into momentum from President Barack Obama's speech along the border Tuesday about America's need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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Washington Wire:
Text of Obama's Speech on Immigration — Here is the White House transcript of President Barack Obama's remarks on immigration as delivered Tuesday in El Paso, Texas. (This post was updated from the text, as prepared for delivery.) — REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT — ON COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM
The Huffington Post:
Reid To Boehner: If You Want $2 Trillion In Cuts, Start With Oil And Gas Tax Breaks
Reid To Boehner: If You Want $2 Trillion In Cuts, Start With Oil And Gas Tax Breaks
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Jim DeMint / National Review:
Speeches and Summits Won't Secure the Border
Speeches and Summits Won't Secure the Border
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Budget chief wants plan with 50-50 split between spending cuts and tax hikes
Budget chief wants plan with 50-50 split between spending cuts and tax hikes
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Senate Democrats set to attack big oil tax subsidies
Senate Democrats set to attack big oil tax subsidies
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New York Times:
Statement From the Family of Osama bin Laden — Statement from the family of Sheikh Osama bin Laden — I Omar Ossama Binladin and my brothers the lawful children and heirs of the Ossama Binladin (OBL) have noted wide coverage of the news of the death of our father, but we are not convinced …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Bin Laden Sons Say U.S. Broke International Law — WASHINGTON — The adult sons of Osama bin Laden have lashed out at President Obama in their first public reaction to their father's death, accusing the United States of violating its basic legal principles by killing an unarmed man …
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Bin Laden death now part of Obama's re-elect message — President Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Austin, Tex. Tuesday. (Jim Young/Reuters) — Reporting from Austin, Tex.— Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is now an applause line in a presidential campaign speech.
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Pam Benson / CNN:
Bin Laden death photos to be shown to some members of Congress
Bin Laden death photos to be shown to some members of Congress
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Christian Heinze / Ballot Box:
Palin and Trump: It's complicated — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and businessman Donald Trump have formed a political bond, one united by their populist ideology and contempt for the mainstream media. — Their kinship grew during the height of the birther controversy.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump collapses — Donald Trump has had one of the quickest rises …
Trump collapses — Donald Trump has had one of the quickest rises …
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Corry Schiermeyer / Zogby:
Todays Number — IBOPE Zogby Poll: Cain Now Second to Christie …
Todays Number — IBOPE Zogby Poll: Cain Now Second to Christie …
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kff.org:
House Republican Budget Plan: State-By-State Impact of Changes in Medicaid Financing — This analysis projects the state-by-state impact of converting Medicaid into a block grant and eliminating the planned expansion of the program by repealing the health reform law, as called for under the House Budget Plan.
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Report: Up to 44m more uninsured under GOP budget
Report: Up to 44m more uninsured under GOP budget
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Jim McNerney / Wall Street Journal:
Boeing Is Pro-Growth, Not Anti-Union — Washington's actions have assaulted the capitalist principles that have sustained America's competitiveness since it became the world's largest economy nearly 140 years ago. — Deep into the recent recession, Boeing decided to invest more than $1 billion in a new factory in South Carolina.
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Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Rand Paul Suggests Conspiracy In Labor Fight: ‘Mr. President, Do You Have An Enemies List?’
Rand Paul Suggests Conspiracy In Labor Fight: ‘Mr. President, Do You Have An Enemies List?’
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Oliver Willis and Washington Post
Kevin Lamarque / The Atlantic Online:
How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology — Since the last realist president, George H.W. Bush, left office, two groups— neoconservatives and liberal interventionists—have overtaken American foreign policy — The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.
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ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Pakistan Hints China Wants a Peek at Secret Helicopter — Pakistani officials said today they're interested in studying the remains of the U.S.'s secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid of Osama bin Laden's compound, and suggest the Chinese are as well.
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Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
In Washington, You Don't Need To Know Anything About Policy To Be a Senator Or Chair Important Commissions — Here's an important fact about the United States of America. Since 1940, advances in prenatal, neonatal, and pediatric medicine have massively reduced early in life deaths. This is common sense.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Southern border is more secure, but not thanks to Obama, says Cornyn — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) conceded this week that security on the Mexican border has improved under the Obama administration - but not, he said, because of the president's policies. — “We are better than we were …
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The Politico:
Obama fundraises in Austin, Texas — President Obama's take from his Austin, Texas, fundraisers is $2 million, a Democratic source said Tuesday. — More than 50 attendees paid $35,800 - the maximum legal limit - to dine with the president at a private residence.
Patrick Caldwell / American Prospect:
Republican Electoral Strategy: Don't Let the Democrats Vote — The Texas Legislature passed two bills yesterday that on the surface look like good governance measures but are actually efforts to discourage the Democratic base from voting. The state Senate approved a bill requiring voters …
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Humbled Gingrich to launch 2012 bid — Sees strength in adviser team — Newt Gingrich vowed Tuesday that his 2012 run for the GOP presidential nomination will be free of the intellectual arrogance and personal disorganization that he concedes marred his tenure as speaker of the U.S. House in the 1990s.
New York Times:
After Bin Laden, U.S. Reassesses Afghan Strategy — WASHINGTON — The killing of Osama bin Laden has set off a reassessment of the war in Afghanistan and the broader effort to combat terrorism, with Congress, the military and the Obama administration weighing the goals, strategies …
Hannah Hess / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ill. lawmaker says raising obese kids should cost parents at tax time — • An Illinois lawmaker says parents who have obese children should lose their state tax deduction. — “It's the parents' responsibility that have obese kids,” said state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga.
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Wall Street Journal:
President to Renew Muslim Outreach — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Jon Huntsman hires former Haley Barbour aide — Jon Huntsman has added former Haley Barbour communications aide James Richardson to his campaign-in-waiting. — Richardson informed friends and colleagues of the move in an email Tuesday. “Wanted to send word your way that I've saddled …
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
New York Times Magazine Relies upon Faked Research to Smear Military — On the day that Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down and killed, the New York Times Sunday Magazine published a cover story detailing the murder of Afghan civilians by American troops.
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