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“This bill represents a textbook example of how not to deal with the economic challenges that our country faces,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).

“Political isolation is something the Iranians are very much concerned about,” said Thomas Pickering, who served as undersecretary of state in the Clinton administration, arguing that continued diplomacy gave the U.S. the leverage of presenting Iran with a united coalition.

A draft report proposes fundamental changes to military-civilian relationships during complex wars.

“This is a state that Democrats said was going blue, or least purple,” said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, on Virginia. “How do they explain it if they lose?”

“Mr. Secretary, I’m not a man that fears this administration or you,” Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) told Geithner. “But I do fear the accumulation of power exercised by someone in the future that can be extraordinary.”

President Obama confirmed Wednesday that he plans to keep the controversial military commissions alive.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), a vocal critic of exorbitant executive pay, fears new legislation will give competitive advantage to the biggest banks.

Obama seeks to cultivate ties with groups within the American Jewish and Arab-American communities to support a two-state solution.

Recent policies put both illegal and legal works at risk.

“He’s a Republican gladiator, not a conservative,” said American Conservative Union chairman David Keene.