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Booker to testify against fellow senator Sessions in unprecedented move — Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is set to testify against Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Wednesday in an unprecedented move during his attorney general confirmation. — This would be the first time in Senate history …
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Sessions failed to disclose oil interests as required, ethics experts say — Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions did not disclose his ownership of oil interests on land in Alabama as required by federal ethics rules, according to an examination of state records and independent ethics lawyers who reviewed the documents.
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. John Lewis to Testify Against Jeff Sessions for Attorney General — Booker to testify against colleague Sessions 6:22 — Sen. Cory Booker is set to make history this week when he testifies before the Judiciary Committee against Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Inside Sessions' strategy to combat racism allegations — The Trump team and Senate Republicans have a strategy to usher Sen. Jeff Sessions through his attorney general confirmation hearing that will highlight his ties to moderate Republicans and Democrats and efforts on bipartisan legislation …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Pompeo's confirmation hearing to be CIA director postponed one day
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick
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CNN:
First on CNN: Condoleezza Rice endorses Sessions for attorney general
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
The Voter Fraud Case Jeff Sessions Lost and Can't Escape
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Obamacare Repeal Might Have Just Died Tonight — The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare and delay the implementation of the repeal - with a promise to come up with a terrific replacement later - is probably its best way to destroy Obamacare. Unfortunately for Republicans …
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A Half-Dozen GOP Senators Just Fired A Big Warning Shot On Obamacare Repeal — Cries to slow down and wait for a replacement are getting louder. — Senior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post — Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Freedom Caucus looks to delay budget — and Obamacare repeal — The House Freedom Caucus wants to delay a vote on a budget that includes Obamacare repeal instructions, a potential setback for the GOP's — and Donald Trump's — top priority. — The group of hardline conservatives wants …
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Bloomberg:
Breakaway Senate Republicans Push to Delay Obamacare Repeal — More support for ‘repeal and replace’ to happen simultaneously — Republicans increasingly open to delaying repeal of tax hikes — A breakaway group of five moderate Senate Republicans pushed Monday to delay …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Voters skeptical of Obamacare repeal without a replacement plan
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
5 GOP Senators Propose Delay On O'Care Repeal To Work Out Replacement
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
A lead Republican in the fight to repeal Obamacare said Monday night …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP leaders vow to plow ahead with Obamacare repeal
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Robby Mook / New York Times:
Russia's D.N.C. Hack Was Only the Start — Imagine the headlines if, in 2015, Russian agents had leapt out of a van at 2 a.m. in Southeast Washington and broken into the Democratic National Committee offices using sophisticated tools and techniques to steal tens of thousands of documents …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends Meryl Streep's anti-Trump speech — President Obama's top spokesman on Monday defended actress Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech that criticized President-elect Donald Trump — “She clearly was delivering a thoughtful, carefully considered message that she believes in deeply …
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Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
Sorry, Meryl but that hypocritical anti-Trump rant was easily the worst performance of your career …
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New York Times:
Obama Watchdog in Congress Has New Target in Trump Era: Postal Reform
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
If You're Freaking Out Over Donald Trump's Presidential Powers, Thank a Liberal!
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Grace Watkins / Politico:
Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation — Monica Crowley, President-Elect Donald J. Trump's pick for a top National Security Council job, plagiarized numerous passages in her Ph.D. dissertation, Politico Magazine has found. — An examination of the dissertation …
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The Trump team's embarrassing defense of fraudulence
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Josephine Mendez / Herald-Dispatch.com:
Huntington High teacher suspended over racially charged tweets — HUNTINGTON — A social studies teacher at Huntington High has been suspended with pay following the discovery of several racially charged tweets shared through her personal Twitter account over the span of more than a year, a school official said Monday.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
U2 delays album release after Trump win — The band U2 is delaying the release of its new album in the aftermath of the unexpected victory of President-elect Donald Trump — The band is reconsidering some aspects of “Songs of Experience,” a follow-up to its 2014 album, “Songs of Innocence.”
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Vince Golle / Bloomberg:
U.S. Small-Business Optimism Index Surges by Most Since 1980 — NFIB gauge jumps to 105.8 in month after presidential election — Expectations for business conditions are highest since 2002 — Optimism among America's small businesses soared in December by the most since 1980 as expectations …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Russian town wants to name street for Donald Trump — has boasted about the many buildings and products that bear his name. Now, he could add a Russian street to that list. — Residents of Ryazan, a town about 125 miles southeast of Moscow, are circulating a petition to rename Godless Street …
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Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Women's March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race — Many thousands of women are expected to converge on the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration. Jennifer Willis no longer plans to be one of them.
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