Iowa U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) can count himself among the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, according to a USA Today analysis of financial disclosures of members of Congress.
Republicans are increasingly divided on the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts that was hammered out by the Obama administration and the Republican Congressional leadership. Potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney urged Congress to vote against the bill in an op-ed published Tuesday in USA Today.
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Today, two newspaper articles made a splash in the blogosphere. One noted that one in six Americans — 50 million people — relies on food stamps, welfare payments, Medicaid, unemployment insurance or other anti-poverty programs — a point picked up by, among others, Daniel Foster at The National More…
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has taken his case against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the public, explaining why he plans to vote against a nominee that even some in his own party are saying is among the most qualified candidates for the high court in decades.
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Sure enough, the story I wrote about that appeared Monday in USA Today that said the stimulus bill would provide jobs for some 300,000 undocumented immigrants has created a firestorm.
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