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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Top Dems, Republicans blast Obama's nuke deal with Iran — Top lawmakers on both side of the aisle on Sunday voiced skepticism about the newly struck agreement with Iran, and vowed to keep up the pressure with sanctions. — Senior members in both chambers said that, at first glance …
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Washington Post:
An Iran deal worth trying — risks and all — THE AGREEMENT with Iran announced early Sunday in Geneva will cap the expansion of its nuclear infrastructure and lengthen the time Tehran would need for a “breakout” attempt to build a bomb. Though the accord is freighted with risk …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Longer-Term Deal With Iran Faces Major Challenges
Longer-Term Deal With Iran Faces Major Challenges
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The Week, WJLA-TV, The Caucus and Associated Press
Barrie McKenna / Globe and Mail:
Canada ‘deeply skeptical’ Iran will follow through on nuclear deal
Canada ‘deeply skeptical’ Iran will follow through on nuclear deal
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Brookings Institute, Michael J. Totten's blog and National Review
Bob Dreyfuss / thenation.com/blogs/161:
Historic US-Iran Deal Is First Step Toward Peace
Historic US-Iran Deal Is First Step Toward Peace
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Schumer ‘Disappointed’ With Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal
Schumer ‘Disappointed’ With Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement
Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Early skepticism, caution on nuclear deal
Early skepticism, caution on nuclear deal
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Filibuster's end imperils Sebelius — Kathleen Sebelius may become the biggest loser in the Senate's approval of filibuster reform. — The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has kept her job despite the botched rollout of ObamaCare's insurance exchanges, but it will now be easier for Obama to replace her.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare — Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Filibuster Rope-a-Dope? — Did the crafty Mitch McConnell just succeed in getting Democrats to damage their long-term interest by nuking the filibuster? I've always defended the filibuster (and still do) as a valid anti-majoritarian device, especially useful for when fitful voters …
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CNN:
President's marks as manager take hit in new CNN/ORC poll — Washington (CNN) - Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll. — And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pressure builds on Boehner — If Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put the Senate's immigration bill to a vote in the House, it wins. — The math is pretty simple. It will take 218 votes to pass it. All 200 Democrats are on board as well as three Republican co-sponsors.
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Obama: 'I'm not a particularly ideological person' — President Barack Obama says he is not a “particularly ideological person,” but remains passionate about certain issues. — “I'm not a particularly ideological person,” Obama said Sunday during a fundraiser in Seattle.
Lawrence R. Jacobs / New York Times:
Right vs. Left in the Midwest — MINNESOTA and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin's Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
California, Here We Come? — It goes without saying that the rollout of Obamacare was an epic disaster. But what kind of disaster was it? Was it a failure of management, messing up the initial implementation of a fundamentally sound policy? Or was it a demonstration that the Affordable Care Act is inherently unworkable?
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KENS:
On-duty officer sexually assaults 19-year-old during traffic stop, police say — SAN ANTONIO — Officer Jackie Neal, 40, was in full uniform, in a marked squad car and on-duty when he made a traffic stop Friday morning and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
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James Jay Carafano / National Review:
Munich II — No, that's not a facile, partisan jab. What just went down in Geneva is, in fact, a replay of the greatest diplomatic tragedy of the 20th century. — The Munich deal rested on the ridiculous notion that Hitler could be satiated. The new pact builds on the equally ludicrous idea …
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