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Campaign Money May Have Been Offered to Blagojevich
Burris Bombshell...Geithner Heads to China Next Week...watch these videos...
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Obama picks Sotomayor for High Court... N. Korea at it Again
If nominated, 54-year-old Sotomayor would be the nation's first Hispanic justice.... watch the video
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News from Senator Saxby Chambliss
This week the Senate passed H.R. 2346, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, which provides funding for various government programs, including ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and H.R. 627, the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Act...
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Remember the True Meaning of Memorial Day
Memorial Day gained resurgence under the Clinton Administration when Congress established the National Moment of Remembrance.  The idea was born when children touring the Nation’s Capital were asked what Memorial Day means, and they responded, “That’s the day the pool opens”...
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Why Speaker Pelosi Should Step Down
Prior to her now infamous press conference last week, Speaker Pelosi insisted that the CIA had not told her in 2002 that waterboarding and other enhanced techniques were being used. In contrast, Leon Panetta, the current CIA director, wrote a memo last Friday to CIA employees in which he stated that "our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of [Al Qaeda terrorist] Abu Zubaydah...
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Isakson Praises Passage of Legislation to Investigate Economic Crisis
Says Isakson, “The only way to get an objective evaluation of where mistakes were made is to create an independent commission of experts to ask what went right, what went wrong and what could we have done to prevent this. We need a forensic audit of the laws of the United States as it relates to the financial markets and our economy"...
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Georgia Pharmacist Travels to Washington to Stand Up for Community Pharmacies and Patients
Tim Short of Sawnee Drug Co. is urging Congress and the Obama Administration to utilize the assistance of community pharmacies in the development of a health care reform plan enhances patient care....
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Obama, Netanyahu lay out Iran, Palestinian divides
US President Barack Obama on Monday held crucial talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which highlighted divisions on confronting Iran and the notion of a Palestinian state. (May 18) - watch this video...
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Obama Speaks on Fuel-Efficiency Standards
Live! From the White House - President Barack Obama Holds News Conference. (May 19)...
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Arnold welcomes Obama to California
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