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Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Dear Democratic Colleague on CRomnibus — It is clear from this recess on the floor that the Republicans don't have enough votes to pass the CRomnibus. This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed: the bank bailout and big money for campaigns provision.
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The Hill:
Funding bill struggles for votes as government shutdown nears — A $1.1 trillion bill to keep the government open appeared to be teetering Thursday after House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) announced her opposition and the package narrowly survived a procedural vote.
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JustOneMinute and PoliticusUSA
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown — House Republican leaders are staking on thin ice with the government funding bill, facing stiff opposition from the left and the right that threatens passage just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.
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New York Times, Shakesville and Washington Monthly
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama — Liberal House Democrats are fighting tooth and nail against President Obama over the fate of an enormous year-end government spending bill. — With just hours to go before a scheduled government shutdown, the Democrats launched a lobbying blitz …
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Hot Air, Fox News and Ed Driscoll
Roll Call:
Lacking Sufficient Support, House GOP Leaders Delay ‘Cromnibus’ Vote
Lacking Sufficient Support, House GOP Leaders Delay ‘Cromnibus’ Vote
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PoliticusUSA
The Huffington Post:
Joe Manchin Joins Democrats Opposed To Obama Treasury Pick Antonio Weiss
Joe Manchin Joins Democrats Opposed To Obama Treasury Pick Antonio Weiss
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Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo, Business Insider and Politico
Politico:
Down to the wire — Obama, GOP scramble for votes while spending plan lingers.
Down to the wire — Obama, GOP scramble for votes while spending plan lingers.
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ABC News, The Hill, BillMoyers.com, Hit & Run and Daily Kos
David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
A Key Obama Treasury Nominee Now Needs Even More GOP Votes to Save His Job
A Key Obama Treasury Nominee Now Needs Even More GOP Votes to Save His Job
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Talking Points Memo
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren, left fume over deal
Warren, left fume over deal
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Open Carry Activist Charged With Shooting Ex-Husband And Stepdaughter Dead — A woman charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and stepdaughter has strong connections to groups advocating for expanding open carry gun laws in Texas. — Local news outlets on Wednesday reported …
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Todd Unger / WFAA-TV:
Woman in custody after two found dead in Arlington home
Woman in custody after two found dead in Arlington home
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Liberaland, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart” — An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked. UPDATE: Both Rudin and Pascal have apologized for the emails. — Danny Moloshok / Reuters
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Scott Rudin Apologizes After Leak Of Sony's Hacked Racially Insensitive E-Mails On Barack Obama
Scott Rudin Apologizes After Leak Of Sony's Hacked Racially Insensitive E-Mails On Barack Obama
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Hinterland Gazette, Politico and Mediaite
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race
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New York Times, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem — Over the last several months, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been giving speeches, campaigning for candidates, appearing at public forums, and meeting with wealthy donors, which has led many people to believe that he may soon enter the race to become the next Republican presidential nominee.
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Politico:
Backers: Romney more open to 2016 run — He has sounded unimpressed with the emerging GOP field, associates say. — For most of the past year, Mitt Romney supporters have publicly said he should consider running again. And for most of the past year, Romney has seemed uninterested. — Until recently.
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The PJ Tatler
Beverly Johnson / Vanity Fair:
Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story. — Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched.
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Defends Use of Interrogation Tactics, Avoiding Issue of Torture — Brennan on Tactics and Finding Bin Laden Brennan on Tactics and Finding Bin Laden — John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, said that information obtained from detainees that were subjected …
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The Moderate Voice, USA Today, The Intercept and The Week
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Anthony Breznican / Inside Movies:
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ character names revealed (in coolest way possible) — exclusive — We finally got to meet some new characters in the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but now we're getting to put some names with the faces. — J.J. Abrams, the film's co-writer …
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Screen Rant, Mashable, abc7news.com and The Verge
Texas Monthly:
And the Bum Steer of the Year Is . . . Was 2014 the year of the Un-Bum Steer? So many of our usual suspects behaved themselves (more or less) that we wondered if something was amiss. Texas A&M didn't do anything too Aggie-like, the Dallas Cowboys were actually in the playoff hunt for a change …
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Truth Revolt, The Daily Caller, “The Lid”, Mediaite, Towleroad News #gay, Washington Post and Bloomberg Politics
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus — I'm hearing from two sources, including one Republican lawmaker, that Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.) provided one of the final, decisive votes needed to clear a crucial procedural hurdle because House leadership promised to pull …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and RedState
Kasie Hunt / NBC News:
Rick Perry: Presidential Campaign's ‘Not an IQ Test’ — Texas Gov. Rick Perry says life experience is more important than book smarts in a president, telling NBC News he's not the same guy who ran in 2012.
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Outside the Beltway
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Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’
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Hot Air, FishbowlDC, American Spectator, Bloomberg Politics and The Huffington Post
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Why The Media's Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone — George Packer argues in The New Yorker that journalism's big crisis is just a business crisis. In the very first paragraph, noting the collapse of Rolling Stone's story about a violent gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity …
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Minding The Campus, National Review, Bloomberg View, JustOneMinute, The Dish and Ed Driscoll
Robert W. Wood / Forbes:
Obama Justice Department Was Involved In IRS Targeting, Lerner Emails Reveal — Sadly, the 18 month investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups isn't over, and it may be worse than anyone thought. A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had surely hoped would never surface.
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Hot Air, Power Line and “The Lid”
Athena Jones / CNN:
Minority congressional staffers plan walkout in wake of Brown, Garner decisions — Washington (CNN) — Congressional staffers plan to walk off their jobs Thursday afternoon to show their support for the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in the wake of the decision by two grand juries …
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Truth Revolt and Mediaite
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Black Congressional Staffers Plan Ferguson, Garner Walkout
Black Congressional Staffers Plan Ferguson, Garner Walkout
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Hullabaloo, Washington Post and The Gateway Pundit