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Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Posts Tagged Amanda Terkel

Gridlocked U.S. Senate thin on women lawmakers

By | 11.02.11 | 2:20 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

There are only 17 women in the 100-member U.S. Senate, which is one of so many under-the-radar problems exacerbating gridlock in the dysfunctional chamber, the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel reports. By comparison, 17 is the same number of women who presently sit in the 35-member Colorado senate. The upshot, according More…

Bill O’Reilly Can’t Stop Harrassing Women

By | 03.23.09 | 12:39 pm

Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress has a blow-by-blow timeline of an ambush by Jesse Watters, a producer for Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” who asks accusatory, leading questions of people Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like. Terkel lives in Washington, but Watters stalked her on a vacation jaunt into Virginia. More…