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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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ABC News, Hit & Run 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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Shakesville and Washington Monthly
New York Times:
House Narrowly Passes Bill to Avoid Shutdown; $1.1 Trillion in Spending — WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion spending package that would fund most government operations for the fiscal year after a rancorous debate that reflected the new power held by Republicans …
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Roll Call, Washington Post and New Economic Perspectives
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, Taylor Marsh, 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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Hullabaloo, Washington Monthly and Business Insider
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
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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PoliticusUSA, Gawker, Mediaite, Joe. My. God. and Hullabaloo
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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
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Scott Rudin Apologizes After Leak Of Sony's Hacked Racially Insensitive E-Mails On Barack Obama — EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin has issued a public apology for the racially insensitive comments that surfaced last night in an exchange of hacked private e-mails between him and Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Amy Pascal.
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Mediaite, Hinterland Gazette and Politico
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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Sony Pictures Tries to Disrupt Downloads of Its Stolen Files
Sony Pictures Tries to Disrupt Downloads of Its Stolen Files
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Washington Post, Mashable and The Verge
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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Hot Air, New York Times and The Daily Caller
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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Political Wire and The PJ Tatler
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Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem
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Daily Kos, OnPolitics, CNN, Washington Monthly, Business Insider and Talking Points Memo
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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USA Today, The Moderate Voice, The Intercept and The Week
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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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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Gawker, Hinterland Gazette and TMZ.com
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
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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RedState
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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The Daily Caller, Truth Revolt, “The Lid”, Mediaite, Towleroad News #gay, Washington Post and Bloomberg Politics
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Few See Quick Cure for Nation's Political Divisions — Large Majority Expects No Progress on Top Problems Facing U.S. — As 2014 draws to a close, the public is deeply pessimistic about the prospects for healing the nation's deep political divisions. And most Americans …
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Washington Post
BJS:
Rape and Sexual Assault Among College-age Females, 1995-2013 — Lynn Langton, Ph.D., Sofi Sinozich, BJS Intern — Compares the characteristics of rape and sexual assault victimization against females ages 18 to 24 who are enrolled and not enrolled in college.
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The Federalist, Hot Air, JustOneMinute, ThinkProgress, The Marshall Project, Maggie's Farm and The PJ Tatler
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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Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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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 and Bloomberg Politics