(2010-07-30) — Hours before his trial was set to begin in the House, veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, struck a deal late last night with the House ethics panel which has charged him with 13 violations of Congressional rules and federal law.
Under the terms of the agreement, Rep. Rangel, who claims he’s done nothing [...]

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(2010-07-29) — Admitting there’s no way to ask a visitor for identification without treating him like a criminal, President Obama today lifted the requirement that Secret Service, military and police personnel assigned to the White House be required to establish a visitor’s threat status before granting admittance.
The move comes just a day after a federal [...]

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(2010-07-29) — Just hours after a federal judge blocked enforcement of several provisions in Arizona’s new immigration law (S.B. 1070), the Obama administration rolled out a new border security plan designed to demonstrate that the federal government is hearing the voice of the people of Arizona.
Judge Susan Bolton Wednesday halted Arizona’s implementation of S.B. 1070 [...]

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(2010-06-03) — President Barack Obama today in his first face-to-face meeting with Gov. Jan Brewer since the Arizona chief executive signed a law allowing police to enforce federal immigration legislation, insisted that “the U.S. needs illegal immigrants to do jobs others won’t do.”
Specifically, the president said he needs undocumented workers to fill a variety of [...]

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(2010-05-25) — The Obama administration, in a brief filed in federal court Monday, said the Commonwealth of Virginia’s claim that the president’s health reform plan is “unconstitutional” demonstrates a “woefully narrow and provincial grasp of constitutionality.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the court, “Despite Virginia’s outlandish claims, the constitutionality of this measure was [...]

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ScrappleFace.com editor in chief Scott Ott joins talk host Terry Gilberg tonight at 11 p.m. Eastern (8 p.m. Arizona) for a live call in show to discuss Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Listen online at KFYI.com, and call in.

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(2010-04-26) — Eager to avoid the controversy that surrounded his last Supreme Court pick, President Barack Obama today categorically rejected “empathy” as a characteristic he seeks in a court nominee.
“On the contrary,” the president said emphatically, “I’m looking for a judge who cannot be swayed by the subjective feelings that the Founding Fathers enshrined in [...]

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