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		<title>Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers&#8217; properties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David S. Fallis, Scott Higham and Kimberly Kindy, Published: February 6 A U.S. senator from Alabama directed more than $100 million in federal earmarks to renovate downtown Tuscaloosa near his own commercial office building. A congressman from Georgia secured $6.3 million in taxpayer funds to replenish the beach about 900 feet from his island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama denounces Senate vote to block Cordray at consumer watchdog agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reference: Issues concerning past Obama Nominees By David Nakamura and Ylan Q. Mui, Published: December 8 An agitated President Obama accused congressional Republicans on Thursday of not standing up for ordinary Americans after the Senate derailed his nominee to head a new federal consumer protection agency. At a brief news conference, the president charged that his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal workers behaving badly!</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11526/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed O&#8217;Keefe (Andrew Harrer &#8211; BLOOMBERG) Most of the 574,000 employees of the U.S. Postal Service complete their appointed rounds and quickly move envelopes and packages to final destinations. But some postal workers steal mail, burn it, hoard it or claim thousands of dollars in fraudulent workers compensation claims, according to a new watchdog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The supercommittee failed because Democrats insisted on $1 trillion in new taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Kyl, Rob Portman, Pat Toomey, Jeb Hensarling, Fred Upton and Dave Camp, Published: November 25 We do not choose to add more to the blame game for failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction , but one Democratic talking point needs debunking: that the talks failed because of Republicans’ attachment to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supercommittee announces failure in effort to tame debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, Published: November 21 A special congressional committee created to try to curb the national debt abandoned its work and conceded failure Monday, the latest setback in a long effort by Washington to overcome ideological differences and stem the rising tide of red ink. In a joint statement issued hours before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed O’Keefe: September 22 The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year — including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report. In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management has made more than $601 million in benefits payments to deceased federal annuitants, according to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lame Duck Session: Dems passing any bill they can before they loose their power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lame-duck session with unexpected victories By Perry Bacon Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 4:34 PM When the lame-duck session of Congress started more than a month ago, President Obama looked defeated and deflated, publicly acknowledging the &#8220;shellacking&#8221; his party had taken in the November midterm elections. Now, a six-week session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Net Neutrality Coup funded by a who&#8217;s who of left-liberal foundations.</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11449/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Net Neutrality Rules By John Fund The Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s new &#8220;net neutrality&#8221; rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal activist groups and foundations. The losers are likely to be consumers who will see innovation and investment chilled by regulations that treat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 111th Congress&#8217;s Final Insult to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bluto Blutarsky must have been an Appropriator. The 111th Congress began with an $814 billion stimulus that blew out the federal balance sheet, so we suppose it&#8217;s only fitting that the Members want to exit by passing a 1,924-page, $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill. The worst Congress in modern history is true to its essence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate spending bill contains thousands of earmarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FY 2011 Omnibus Appropriations Act Full Text By Philip Rucker and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, December 15, 2010; 12:00 AM Weeks after swearing off earmarks, many senators stand to gain tens of millions of dollars for pet projects in a massive spending bill that could be their last chance at the money [...]]]></description>
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