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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>Congress&#8217;s Phony Insider-Trading Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The denizens of Capitol Hill are remarkable investors. A new law meant to curb abuses would only make their shenanigans easier. By JONATHAN MACEY Members of Congress already get better health insurance and retirement benefits than other Americans. They are about to get better insider trading laws as well. Several academic studies show that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama denounces Senate vote to block Cordray at consumer watchdog agency</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11546/</link>
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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>Walker signs &#8216;castle doctrine&#8217; bill, other measures</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11536/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor also OKs legislation to cap attorney fees, use test results to fire teachers By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel Dec. 7, 2011 Madison &#8211; Homeowners who shoot intruders will have new legal protections, under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Scott Walker. The Republican governor also signed legislation to limit attorney fees in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holder faces House Republicans over health-care law, ‘Fast and Furious’</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11547/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jerry Markon, Published: December 8 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. clashed with congressional Republicans on Thursday, defending the Justice Department in the face of criticism of its “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking sting and its refusal to turn over documents on the health-care law adopted last year. Under exhaustive questioning from the House Judiciary Committee, [...]]]></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>U.S. Rep. Ribble moves out of District &#8211; A Democrat Move.  Not illegal but defiantly WRONG</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least Kagen stood by his District.  You lost my Vote for re-election! SHERWOOD — U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble confirmed reports Tuesday that he recently moved out of the 8th Congressional District and returned to his family&#8217;s three-bedroom home on Lake Winnebago in Sherwood, a house he left more than a year ago to challenge [...]]]></description>
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