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1 hr ago | The Hill

Vitter trades fire with 'Obama phone' firm

Sen. David Vitter and TracFone Wireless, a pre-paid cellphone carrier, are hurling accusations at each other over a federal phone subsidy program for the poor.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Republican, Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Hurricane, Natural Disasters

5 hrs ago | The New York Times

The Caucus: The Weekend Word: Remembrance

Many of the nation's poorest citizens will not receive access to health insurance under President Obama's health care laws because about half the states refuse to expand Medicaid, Robert Pear reports.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Medicaid, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Liberal Political News

9 hrs ago | The Charlotte Observer

Banks still want a bailout

The nation's biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, Republican

Fri May 24, 2013

Environmental Leader

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: TSCA Update, Utility Shield Law, Mining Guidance

Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Frank Lautenberg, Republican

KSLA-TV Shreveport

E. Ind. man gets 37 years in prison in son's death

A month after Louisiana Sen. David Vitter introduced legislation that would end subsidized mobile phone service, one company that provides the cell phones sought to defend it.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Cell Phones, Electronics, Shreveport, LA, Monroe, LA

The Times-Picayune

Sen. David Vitter's proposed changes to food stamp program would...

People wait peacefully outside the Alario Center in Westwego for the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program center to begin operations Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Westwego, LA, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Opinion

Salon

David Vitter's hypocritical, punitive, horrible new amendment

In a sleepy moment on the Senate floor Wednesday, Senate Democrats accepted an amendment to the long-delayed farm bill that, if passed in its current form, would represent another step in turning previously incarcerated Americans into a permanent underclass.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Prison, Debbie Stabenow, Democrat

NOLA.com

On the Hill: Landrieu tweets her unhappiness with Toomey

Sen. Mary Landrieu , D-La., is tweeting about her unhappiness with Sen. Pat Toomey , R-Pa. "Last week @SenToomey blocked a vote to keep flood insurance affordable; this week his anti-sugar amendment could cost Louisiana 27,000 jobs," Landrieu tweeted.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Mary Landrieu, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Bill Cassidy, Senator Pat Toomey, Senator Jeanne Shaheen

Common Dreams

Will the Environmental Health Movement Compromise on Chemical Safety Reform?

It is the latest attempt to overhaul the antiquated and ineffective Toxic Substances Control Act .

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Related Topix: Control Group, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Frank Lautenberg, Republican, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Liberal Political News

BusinessWeek

The Question Obama's EPA Pick Gina McCarthy Can't Answer

Gina McCarthy has fielded 1,100 questions from Senate Republicans in Congress since President Obama picked her in March to head the Environmental Protection Agency-more than any EPA nominee before her.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environment, Science, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

Thu May 23, 2013

Mediaite.com

Senate Unanimously Approves Sen. David Vitter's Really Stupid,...

Who knew that the U.S. Senate could still agree on things? An amendment to the current version of the farm bill caught my eye earlier today, when someone tweeted a link to a Huffington Post entry entitled " Senator Vitter Offers - and Senate Democrats Accept - Stunning Amendment With Racially Tinged Impacts ," by Center on Budget and Policy ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Debbie Stabenow, Democrat

The Times-Picayune

Houma towing magnate charged with illegal campaign payments to U.S. senators

A Houma towing and tugboat magnate was charged in federal court Thursday with making false statements related to illegal contributions to the campaigns of Democratic Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Mary Landrieu, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Republican

El Paso Times

Bipartisan bill on chemical safety produced by senators

The U.S. law on chemical safety is 37 years old, riddled with exceptions and widely considered ineffective - so much so that the government hasn't even tried to restrict an unsafe chemical since courts overturned its asbestos ban in 1991.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Frank Lautenberg, Robert Menendez, US House of Representatives, Republican, Environmental Law, Law, Mary Landrieu

The Las Vegas Sun

Republicans press NRC chair for answers on Yucca Mountain

The crisis that engulfed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and threatened to tip the scales on the Yucca Mountain project last year is in the past, if the bipartisan nods of reserved approval that new chairwoman Allison MacFarlane received at her reconfirmation Thursday are any indicator.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Senator John Barrasso, US Senate, Republican, Harry Reid, Democrat, Barack Obama, Nuclear Energy

The Washington Post

The Frenchification of America

Mark Sanford was elected this month to Congress after admitting an extra-marital affair while governor and disappearing from office.

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Related Topix: Mark Sanford, US Governors, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Human Sexuality, Sports

WHIO

Senate rejects bid to let states run food stamps

This May 15, 2013 file photo shows stacks of paperwork awaiting members of the House Agriculture Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as it met to consider proposals to the 2013 Farm Bill.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, US Politics, James Inhofe, US News, US Senate, Republican, Debbie Stabenow, Democrat

Star Tribune

Banks still want big bailouts

The nation's biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, Republican, Opinion

Wed May 22, 2013

Politico

Vitter stokes buzz about governor bid

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter will spend several days this fall raising money for an outside group set up to support him in both state and federal elections, fueling speculation that the Republican may be preparing to run for governor in 2015.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Mitt Romney

The Huffington Post

Bob Greenstein: Senator Vitter Offers -- and Senate Democrats Accept...

In today's Senate debate on the farm bill, Senator David Vitter offered -- and Senate Democrats accepted -- an amendment that would increase hardship and will likely have strongly racially discriminatory effects.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US News, Prison

The Daily Beast

Anthony Behar/SipaWeiner's Shameless SchtickDespite a sex scandal,...

After a sex scandal, a one-time fighter for the middle class learned to love crony capitalism, writes John Avlon.

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Related Topix: Sex Scandal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Anthony Weiner, Democrat, US Senate, Republican, Newt Gingrich