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SENATOR DEMINT – WHY HE’S OPPOSED TO KAGAN NOMINATION

WASHINGTON TIMES JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY DEMINT: The Constitution is the precedent Americans don’t want their country reinvented By Sen. Jim DeMint ., Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Illustration: Kagan’s constitution by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times When a president and a Congress collude to pass and sign into law unconstitutional power grabs, bailouts and takeovers there

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CONGRESS SETS UP INDEPENDENT OIL SPILL INVESTIGATING COMMISSION

JULY 9, 2010 The White House Gets Drilled How ideologically stacked is President Obama’s offshore drilling commission? So much that even many of his fellow Democrats can’t support it. Five Democrats on the Senate Energy Committee last week delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the White House, voting with Republicans to have Congress set up an

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GOVERNMENT PORK CREATES A CULTURE OF DEPENDENCY

JULY 10, 2010 Robert Byrd’s Highways to Nowhere Government pork hasn’t made West Virginia prosperous. By BRIAN BOLDUC ‘His heart belonged to you,” President Obama told the hundreds of West Virginians who attended Robert Byrd’s funeral last week. “Making life better here was his only agenda.” Maybe so. But despite the $4 billion in pork

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DEMOCRATS HAVE PLANS FOR THEIR “AFTER THE ELECTION” SESSION

JULY 9, 2010 The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy Union ‘card-check,’ cap and trade, and so much more. By JOHN FUND Democratic House members are so worried about the fall elections they’re leaving Washington on July 30, a full week earlier than normal—and they won’t return until mid-September. Members gulped when National Journal’s Charlie Cook, the

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SENATOR KYL SPEAKS OUT ON US/RUSSIAN TREATY

JULY 8, 2010 The New Start Treaty: Time for a Careful Look The Senate shouldn’t rubber stamp an arms control strategy rooted in a vision of ‘nuclear zero’ without opening up the negotiating record. By JON KYL Hearings to ratify the nuclear arms treaty with Russia known as New Start are now underway in the

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SPENDING HAS PRODUCED ANXIETY IN THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE

JULY 8, 2010 Obama and the Spending Volcano An eruption of public spending from Mount Obama has caused deep anxieties among the voters in America’s villages. By DANIEL HENNINGER The Democrats in Washington are beginning to look like a tribe of volcano worshipers, living in the ever-present shadow of Mount Obama, which has been spewing

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DR. BERWICK WILL BE APPOINTED DURING CONGRESSIONAL RECESS

Obama Appoints His Rationer-in-Chief NATIONAL REVIEW July 07, 2010 11:08 AM By Grace-Marie Turner President Obama is making a huge end-run around the American people with his recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick. “This recess appointment is an insult to the American people,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), a physician and leading Berwick opponent.

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CONTROVERSIAL DR. TO BE APPOINTED DURING CONGRESSIONAL RECESS

President to Fill Medicare and Medicaid Post Without Senate Approval Published July 06, 2010 | FoxNews.com Donald Berwick, seen in this 2006 photo at a National Institutes of Health seminar, was appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid. WASHINGTON — President Obama intends to bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head

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