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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)
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07/26/11 07:02 PM ET
At a time when our nation is balancing competing priorities, reducing federal spending and strengthening U.S. global leadership, it is worth highlighting a modest investment that has yielded strong returns for our nation — our contributions to the United Nations.
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Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) and Martin Sheen
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07/26/11 07:00 PM ET
State and national leaders are taking a
closer look at the $70 billion spent annually on America’s correctional
system.
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Christopher Soghoian and Peter Swire
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07/26/11 06:48 PM ET
Simple actions by U.S. telephone companies can avoid the sorts of break-ins to voicemail accounts that are at the heart of the Murdoch newspaper hacking scandal.
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Barbara Lee
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07/26/11 06:45 PM ET
When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 presidential bid, she spoke of the future, of “bold but practical changes” and renewing “the promise of America.”
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Jose Antonio Vargas
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07/25/11 06:40 PM ET
In these anxious times, everyone needs someone to blame, and that someone has become “illegals.”
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Rep. Lamar Smith
(R-Texas)
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07/25/11 06:38 PM ET
Millions of Americans are looking for work. The federal government is borrowing 43 cents on every dollar it spends. And the economy is dragging along the bottom. Incredibly, and contrary to common sense, some argue that granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants will solve all our problems and create jobs, increase revenues and boost the economy. But their claims are built on a foundation of sand.
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Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin
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07/21/11 07:55 PM ET
America’s debt ceiling was quietly raised 10 times over the past 10 years. Only now has it become a national debate. The elephant in this room is not the GOP. It is the millions of Tea Party activists who have shifted the national debate to government overspending — a debate that was long overdue.
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Elaine L. Chao
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07/21/11 06:37 PM ET
Students entering college four years ago could reasonably assume that the recession would be a rapidly receding speck in America’s rearview mirror by the time they graduated. After all, in the four deepest previous recessions — those of 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981— employment three years after those downturns began was on average 4.7 percent higher than the pre-recession peak.
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Bill Press
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07/21/11 06:31 PM ET
On my radio show this week, newly elected Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) acknowledged she was settling in to her new job in Washington. Still, she volunteered, at the end of the week she couldn’t wait to hop on a plane and get back to “the real world.”
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Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.)
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07/20/11 06:09 PM ET
Just one year has passed since President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law, and in that time a strange amnesia has developed among many on Wall Street and here in Washington. Apparently content to ignore the economic devastation we just experienced, critics of the new law choose not to tally the costs from the lost jobs, homes and investments of millions of American families. Instead, critics fixate on the costs of regulating financial companies with demonstrated ability to put our entire economy at risk.
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