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Oversight
Analysis: Four Theories on John Boehner's Debt Limit Strategy
In a conference call last week, Boehner said the GOP would push Obama on the debt limit, but not the continuing resolution to fund the government.
Oversight
GOP Wants Conservatives to Trade a Shutdown for an Even Bigger Crisis
Debt ceiling is a better 'leverage point' for concessions on Obamacare, aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tells Reuters.
Management
Ronald Reagan to Richard Nixon on Watergate: 'This Too Shall Pass'
Latest set of tapes suggest Reagan assured Nixon that his Watergate speech was effective.
Defense
The Mind of Bradley Manning
His defense team called him a naive idealistic kid with biological mental disorders.
Oversight
Analysis: The Choreographed Fight Over a Government Shutdown
Obama won't sign a bill to defund health care reform, and Republicans know it.
Oversight
Liz Cheney Pledges to Stamp Out the Last Remnants of Compromise in Congress
Cheney has said she will obstruct the President's policies and agenda.
Management
The Perils of Being the Earnest Intern
Hill intern goes a little over the top professing his love for flags.
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Management
Americans Finally Have Access to American Propaganda
Supporters hail change as a victory for transparency.
Oversight
How the IRS Made All Kinds of Groups' Lives Miserable
Congressional Democrats charge that the IRS acted inappropriately in reporting how it acted inappropriately.
Management
Senate Confirms Penny Pritzker to Be Commerce Secretary, 97 to 1
Obama praises the "bipartisan action" in Congress.
Defense
Will Syria Be Obama's Fourth War?
The country is being compared to Kosovo, Rwanda, Libya, Iraq — which lessons should apply?
Management
Mike Morrell Says He's Quitting CIA for His Family (Not Benghazi), for 'Real'
Morell's name has been in the news for removing the references to terrorism in the Benghazi talking points.
Defense
Military Commanders Retain Powers in Sexual Assault Cases
Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin killed the proposal.
Oversight
Romney Wishes Hurricane Sandy Hadn't Happened Because It Hurt His Chances
2012 candidate says the storm gave the 'president a chance to look presidential.'
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Management
Analysis: Obama's Trade Nominee's Cayman Bank Accounts
Michael Froman also benefitted from the 'carried interest' loophole.
Oversight
Millennials Don't Hate Big Government, but They Do Hate the GOP Economic Fix
Young people don't believe cutting government will grow jobs, College National Republican Committee finds.
Oversight
Will Darrell Issa Finally Find His Benghazi Smoking Gun?
Issa subpoenaed all the Benghazi talking points-related emails from 10 State Department aides.
Defense
Analysis: A Global War on Terror by Another Name Doesn't Tell Us How to Succeed
President Obama rejected the Bush-era term Global War on Terrorism in a major speech announcing changes to his counterterrorism policies.
Defense
How Petraeus Turned the CIA into the Good Guys in Benghazi
The intelligence agency has been quite effective in limiting the public discussion of its role.
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