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Federal workers fret over debt talks
As the president and the speaker of the House intensified their debate over raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling Monday night, the real world impact was reflected among Maryland federal workers like Jacqueline Hamilton. After 44 years of...Tags: Baltimore County, Laws, Joe Biden, Medicare, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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6th District congressional candidate wants to share job-creating success
andrews@herald-mail.comEditor's note: This is one in an occasional series of profiles about candidates running for election in the 6th Congressional District. John Delaney said he has a proven record of creating jobs — more than 1,000 of them in Montgomery County, Md....Tags: Alex X Mooney, CapitalSource Inc., Robert J. Garagiola, Politics, Roscoe G Bartlett
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Candidates run for Congress despite home address
All politics is local. All candidates for Congress are not. At least eight candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland — including four prominent contenders — are running this year in congressional districts that do not...Tags: Baltimore County, Frederick County (Maryland), Martin O'Malley, Political Candidates, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
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Election decision may force disclosure of secret donors
WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars to influence the 2012 election now face the prospect of having to reveal their secret donors, after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower-court order requiring the...
Tags: White House, Voting, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Laws
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Grade level of congressional speech falls
A study suggesting that the sophistication of congressional floor speeches has declined by a full grade level since 2005 ranks Reps. Chris Van Hollen and John Sarbanes as the most eloquent -- or verbose, depending on perspective -- members of Maryland&...Tags: Democratic Party, Elijah E. Cummings, National Security Agency, U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Federal workers take $15B hit in payroll tax deal
Federal employees will be required to contribute $15 billion toward the cost of extending federal unemployment insurance under a tentative agreement struck in Congress that would also maintain the 2010 payroll tax break, federal worker union officials...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Labor Legislation, Congressional Budget Office, Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance
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Cheating by China threatens Maryland jobs
They still don't get it. Every four years, presidential candidates pledge allegiance to American manufacturing and profess a love for "Made in America." But when the going gets tough, no presidential candidate can match this rhetoric with action. In a...
Tags: China, Barbara A. Mikulski, Politics, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Barack Obama
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For 6th District Republicans, the gerrymander blues
As Tuesday's congressional primary approaches, Western Maryland Democrats, longing for a change in representation, have reason to be optimistic. Republicans, on the other hand, have reason to sing the blues. The change in the 6th Congressional District...
Tags: Robert J. Garagiola, Political Candidates, Politics, Executive Branch, Republican Party
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Key races, little interest as primary nears
Despite high-profile races — including a Republican presidential contest that brought the candidates swinging through the state and a nationally significant House race in Western Maryland — elections officials predict that turnout could fall...Tags: Regional Elections, Baltimore County, Severna Park, U.S. Elections, Politics
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Md. lawmakers take on political spending spree
Three Maryland lawmakers are leading vastly different approaches in Congress to address the growing influence of so-called super PACs and other political nonprofits that have poured money into campaigns, raising concerns about the outsized influence of...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Baltimore County, Federal Election Commission
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A pregnant woman with HIV, and the cost of U.S. foreign aid cuts
When I met a woman I'll call "Mary" in Luwingu, a remote district in northern Zambia, she had already seen three of her children die. She did not know that she had contracted HIV until she arrived at the clinic where for the past few months I had been...Tags: Family, Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Conservation, Malaria
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Bartlett, Van Hollen taking service members to State of the Union speech
Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett and Chris Van Hollen are planning to take service members past and present to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address Tuesday evening.
Bartlett, a Western Maryland Republican, and Van Hollen, a Montgomery County...Tags: Defense, U.S. Marine Corps, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Unions
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