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Kasich Braces for Union-Law Battle; Bachmann Slams Dems’ Shutdown Games
U.S. Top News Early Edition: Gaddafi forces storm Misrata, rebels offer truce
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Newser Daily Digest - GOP Wants to Make Unbalanced Budget Illegal
GOP Wants to Make Unbalanced Budget Illegal
(Newser) - The GOP is hoping to tack a 28th amendment on to the Constitution: one that would mandate a balanced budget. All 47 GOP senators are behind the proposal, which was announced yesterday, but "the whole thing is a long shot," an analyst tells Reuters . Earlier attempts have fallen... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
GOP Budget Would Kill 70K Kids: USAID Chief
(Newser) - House Republicans' version of the budget deal to keep the government running would cause the deaths of at least 70,000 children around the world who depend on America aid, USAID chief Rajiv Shah testified yesterday. The agency predicts that 30,000 will die because of the scaling back of... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Florida Lawmaker Scolded for Saying 'Uterus'
(Newser) - Lessons in political decorum, Florida-style: During floor debate in the state House, Democrat Scott Randolph joked that his wife should "incorporate her uterus" if she wanted to avoid abortion restrictions, reports the St. Petersburg Times . His point was that Republicans are so reluctant to regulate businesses, they would steer... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Tea Party Rally Message: 'Cut It or Shut It'
(Newser) - Amid signs of a potential deal to avoid a government shutdown, a group of Tea Party activists gathered in DC today to urge Republicans to keep on slashing. "Cut it or shut it," and "We want less," went the chants outside the Capitol, reports the Hill... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Donald Trump: Bill Ayers Wrote Obama's Book
(Newser) - Donald Trump isn’t content with questioning Obama’s citizenship —now he’s questioning his authorial accomplishments, too. In an interview with Laura Ingraham yesterday, Trump espoused the theory that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s memoir, Dreams of My Father, Aol News reports. Obama is only the president “... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
GOP Wants Plan to Stop Every Illegal Immigrant
(Newser) - Congressional Republicans are working on a hardline anti-immigration bill that would call for more border fencing, more sensors, more border patrol agents, and aerial drones in an all-out attempt to prevent all illegal entry into the country. The bill is unlikely to pass the Senate, the LA Times observes, so... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Scott Walker Backs Down, Won't Enact Union Law
(Newser) - Looks like Scott Walker won't be implementing his anti-union law against court orders after all. Judge Maryann Sumi issued a ruling today stating that the law had not taken effect, and a top aide to the governor tells the AP that he will reluctantly comply with it. The ruling comes... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Obama's Libya Blundering Could Wreck His Presidency
(Newser) - Andrew Sullivan delivers a withering critique of President Obama on the news that CIA agents are on the ground covertly helping anti-Gadhafi rebels. It means the president has been "at best vague" and "at worst deceptive" in his public pronouncements, Sullivan writes at his Daily Dish blog at... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Indiana Rep: Women Will Lie About Rape to Get Abortions
(Newser) - Indiana’s House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve one of the country’s strictest anti-abortion laws, but not before some emotional battles with Democrats trying to temper it, the Indianapolis Star reports. One fight that caught Think Progress ’ eye: On Tuesday, Democrat Gail Riecken introduced an amendment that would... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Wisc. GOP Tries to Yank Duffy's '$174K' Video
(Newser) - When Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy started taking heat for complaining that he was struggling to get by on his $174,000 salary, the Polk County GOP yanked the video of the townhall meeting from its website; now it's trying to eradicate the video from the Internet, reports Talking Points Memo.... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Backers Already Imagining Giffords' Campaign Ads
(Newser) - Gabrielle Giffords’ backers acknowledge that they don’t want to get too far ahead of themselves … but that isn’t stopping them from daydreaming about the dramatic campaign commercials that would run, should Giffords recover and decide to make a play for Jon Kyl’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat . Several... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
Dems Offer $33B in Cuts to Revive Budget Talks
(Newser) - The White House jolted budget negotiations back to life yesterday, getting Senate Democrats to agree to $33 billion in cuts in the hopes of finding middle ground with John Boehner and Co., Politico reports. Joe Biden met with Democratic leadership yesterday evening, and emerged saying that the Senate and president... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, April 1, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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