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4 hrs ago | Portsmouth Daily Times

Military funding measure could mean local jobs

Bryan Davis, Vice President of Sole Choice, a shoelace manufacturer in Portsmouth, says last week's passage by the U.S. House of Representatives passage of H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, could, if passed, mean an increase in business and possibly the creation of more jobs at that plant.

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Related Topix: Portsmouth, OH, US Politics, Representative Brad Wenstrup, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Niki Tsongas, Democrat, US Senate, Sherrod Brown

14 hrs ago | Daily Kos

MA-Sen: Scott Brown (R), "I think I could beat Ed Markey (D), absolutely"

Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown told Fox 25 he could beat Congressman Ed Markey, who is currently running against Republican Gabriel Gomez in the June 25 special election for U.S. Senate.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, John Kerry, Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Joe Lieberman

22 hrs ago | Daily Kos

Elections Morning Digest: Brian Schweitzer might decide in six million years or so

Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Brian Schweitzer, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Max Baucus, US House of Representatives, Ed Case, Representative Colleen Hanabusa, Republican

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Reuters

Massachusetts Senate candidates spar on U.S. surveillance programs

The Republican underdog fighting for Massachusetts' open U.S. Senate seat in a Tuesday debate attacked his rival, a veteran Democratic congressman, over recently revealed programs in which federal agencies track Americans' use of phones and the Internet.

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Related Topix: US News, Edward Markey, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren, US Senate, Republican, Edward Kennedy

Politico

Brown does minimal duty as Gomez surrogate

Gabriel Gomez is trying to show that Scott Brown isn't the only Republican who can steal a Senate seat in a special election in liberal Massachusetts.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Stephen Lynch, Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Cape Cod Times

An early summer grilling

Next week's election to fill Secretary of State John Kerry's vacated Senate seat looks like a win for U.S. Rep. Ed Markey.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics, John McCain, Tom Coburn, Opinion

Lowell Sun

Murray says 'many' have asked her to run for governor

Senate President Therese Murray on Monday said she had not yet made a decision on her political future, indicating that she is undecided on running for re-election in 2014 and declining to rule out a run for governor.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Michael Capuano, US News, Representative Joseph Kennedy, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Senate, Republican

WAPI-AM Birmingham

Ex- - Obamacare' Official to Run for Mass. Governor

Donald Berwick, a former controversial figure in the Obama administration who served as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said he will run for governor of Massachusetts next year.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Medicare, US Politics, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

ABC News

Lightning Rod Ex-'Obamacare' Official to Run for Mass. Governor

Donald Berwick, a former controversial figure in the Obama administration who served as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said he will run for governor of Massachusetts next year.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Medicare, US Politics, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

ABC News

The Note: Syria Comes To Ireland

GAMING OUT THE G8: The civil war in Syria is expected to dominate much of the discussion as President Obama sits down with the Group of Eight leaders in Northern Ireland today, just days after the White House confirmed the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, ABC's MARY BRUCE reports.

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Related Topix: US News, Vladimir Putin, Michelle Obama, US Senate, Republican

Sun Jun 16, 2013

ABC News

Mass. Senate Race Worries Both Sides

Republican Gabriel Gomez, left, shakes hands with Democratic Congressman Edward Markey at the end of the debate, June 11, 2013 in the studios of WGBY in Springfield, Mass.

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Related Topix: US News, Edward Markey, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, John Kerry, US Senate, Republican

Bladen Journal

Joyce Britt has attended the state's GOP Convention before, having gone to the event in 2012 when it was held in Greensboro.

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Related Topix: US News, Pop/Rock, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Haley Barbour, US Governors, US Senate, Republican

Boston Herald

CBS ends national broadcast of July 4 Pops concert

For the first time in more than 20 years, the July 4 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will not be televised nationally.

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Related Topix: The Boston Pops, Classical, US News, US Senate, Republican

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Boston Herald

Gomez jabs at Markey for recruiting big Dem backups

U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel E. Gomez, campaigning up and down the state yesterday, said the high-profile visits by President Obama and former President Bill Clinton are examples of his opponent's insider status, something he'll target until election day on June 25. The GOP's Gomez - speaking to the Herald at the Semana Hispana festival in Lawrence ... (more)

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton, History in the News, Edward Markey, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Senate, Republican, Opinion

Examiner.com

Analysis: Could the GOP retake the U.S. Senate majority in 2014?

Today's Real Clear Politics average of polls on the special Massachusetts senate election between Democratic nominee Edward Markey and Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez shows the Democrat leading by 9.3 percent.

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Related Topix: US News, Edward Markey, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, US Senate, Republican, Representative Tom Cotton, Senator Jeanne Shaheen

Daily Kos

MA-Sen: Patrick Leahy

Received two fundraising e-mails from two Senators I admire who are supporting Congressman Ed Markey's U.S. Senate bid.

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Related Topix: Edward Markey, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Immigration Reform

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Boston Herald

Democratic US Sen. Warren's PAC raises $229,000

A political action committee formed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has raised nearly $229,000 during the first six months of the year, records show.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Elizabeth Warren, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Niki Tsongas, Democrat, Financial Services, Federal Election Commission, Senator Al Franken, Opinion

Roll Call

Markey Raises $1 Million More than Gomez, Spends $4 Million More

Strong fundraising in April and May added to his $4.6 million cash balance on 4/11 helped Rep. Edward Markey far outspend Gabriel Gomez in the battle to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, now President Obama's Secretary of State.

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Related Topix: Edward Markey, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Senate, Republican, John Kerry, Edward Kennedy

Outside the Beltway

Republicans Haven't Learned The Lessons Of 2012

National Journal's Josh Kraushaar notes that the Republican Party doesn't seem to have learned much from the 2012 election and, to the extent the problems it faces that led to what can only be seen as a defeat least year have been pointed out to them, they don't seem to be at all interested in implementing reforms.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican, US House of Representatives, 2012 Presidential Election, Edward Markey, US Senate, Democrat

Sentinel & Enterprise

Light turnout expected June 25

Late June, with school having recently ended or soon to do so, and the Fourth of July little more than a week away, is not a time people are used to going to the polls to vote.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Stephen Lynch, Democrat, John Kerry, Senator Elizabeth Warren, US Senate, Republican