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Politico:
Conservatives rage against the machine — Opponents of Obama's immigration action hoped the GOP would use budget to push back harder on issue — Conservatives began the lame-duck session enraged over President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration and hell-bent on unraveling …
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Bloomberg View
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters. — Dimon's involvement came amidst progressives enraged …
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Prairie Weather
The Hill:
House approves $1.1T bill to fund government despite Dem uprising — The House on Thursday approved a $1.1 trillion bill funding most of the government through September despite an outcry from Democrats and significant defections in both parties. — By a vote of 219-206 …
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Bloomberg Politics, Daily Kos, Daily Signal and Hit & Run
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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Washington Post, Shakesville, Outside the Beltway and New Economic Perspectives
The Hill:
Funding bill struggles for votes as government shutdown nears
Funding bill struggles for votes as government shutdown nears
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Politico, Washington Post, PoliticusUSA, ABC News, Hit & Run and Daily Kos
Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Dear Democratic Colleague on CRomnibus
Pelosi Dear Democratic Colleague on CRomnibus
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The Daily Beast, Roll Call, CANNONFIRE, The Hill, RedState, Daily Kos, Politico, The Daily Caller and Business Insider
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
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The Gateway Pundit, RedState and Hot Air
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post and Roll Call
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
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Hot Air and Washington Post
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama
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Hot Air, Fox News, Taylor Marsh, Ed Driscoll, Hinterland Gazette and Politico
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown
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Shakesville and Washington Monthly
William McGurn / New York Post:
Tortured tantrums: Feinstein's fake fury — Angus King raises an excellent point about torture. It's just not the point he probably intended. — This week on CNN, Maine's Independent senator was asked about the Senate Democrats' release of a scathing report saying the CIA interrogation program …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report — The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality. Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us …
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Guardian
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Torture Is Who We Are — A country, like a person, is what it does. — Torture, declared President Obama this week, in response to the newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation, is “contrary to who we are.” Maine Senator Angus King added that, “This is not America. This is not who we are.”
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The Moderate Voice and The Dish
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty — (CNN) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Gov. Chris Christie's unapologetic love for the Dallas Cowboys is “pathetic,” adding that it's rooted in a “basic inferiority complex.” — “If you are a Jerseyite …
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New Jersey Online, Political Wire and Booman Tribune
Will Carr / Fox News:
Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale dead at 43 — Dominic Di-Natale, a globetrotting journalist whose work at Fox News Channel and other news organizations took him to Usama bin Laden's compound, demonstrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square and, more recently, to the scene of racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., has died.
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Talking Points Memo, Gawker and Mediaite
CBS News:
ISIS issues guidelines for sex slavery — Shares - — Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq. — Many of the captives are believed to be sold …
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Liberty Unyielding and “The Lid”
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
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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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National Review, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The PJ Tatler, OnPolitics, CNN, Washington Monthly, Business Insider and Bloomberg Politics
Politico:
Tea party fumes over campaign finance plan — Activists see high dollar limits as a power grab by GOP establishment. — Tea party activists are attacking a campaign finance rider in the $1.1 trillion spending bill that they view as a sneaky power grab by establishment Republicans designed to undermine outside conservative groups.
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Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Inside the collapse of the year's biggest tax deal — It was a rough few weeks for Sen. Ron Wyden (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) — Sen. Ron Wyden has so many knives in his back, it's a wonder he's still walking around upright. But as his tenure as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee draws …
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Political Wire and Bloomberg View
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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Daily Kos, Liberaland and Raw Story