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Dems defeat Lamborn’s ‘defund NPR’ proposal

Congressional Democrats voted down the first GOP legislative proposal since the midterm elections, Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn's proposal to strip tax money from...

Unemployment rate drops to 9.7%, GOP leaders unmoved

The economy added 431,000 jobs last month, dropping the national unemployment rate from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the Department of Labor Statistics announced...

GOP Whip Cantor’s office pushes phony ‘New England Journal of Medicine...

From yesterday’s Twitter feed of Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the GOP whip’s office: Dayspring doesn’t mis-attribute the study to the New England Journal of Medicine,...

Bachmann anti-health reform ‘House Call’ as intraparty hijacking

There are a few telling details about yesterday’s rally against the House’s health care reform bill that got lost in the coverage. The rally...