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Monday, April 14, 2014 |
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What No One Wants to Admit About Social Security Taxes
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:18 PM :: 4331 Views :: National News, Taxes
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“At least that’s going to pay for my retirement”?
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
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Getting Your Neighbor's Mortgage Off Your Lawn
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:37 PM :: 3473 Views :: National News
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Fannie and Freddie have received billions in subsidies, but the homeownership rate is only 1 percentage point higher than it was in 1968....
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Monday, April 7, 2014 |
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Why Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 11:21 PM :: 7722 Views :: National News, Development, Labor, Rail
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The Atlantic Cities magazine published a condensed analysis of seven main reasons that explain why U.S infrastructure project cost more than elsewhere....
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Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
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How Obama Is Strangling the Economy in Red Tape
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:06 AM :: 4040 Views :: National News
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Regulation: It’s a mostly hidden drain on the economy....
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 |
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VIDEO: Rand Paul Gets Rousing Welcome at UC Berkeley
By Video @ 2:43 AM :: 7881 Views :: National News, First Amendment, Politicians, Republican Party
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Sen. Paul spoke about his class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration and the National Security Agency....
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014 |
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How to Avoid Another Housing Crisis
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:43 AM :: 4560 Views :: National News, Cost of Living
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What’s one thing Congress could do to help the economy and American homeowners?
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Monday, March 17, 2014 |
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How to Hide Billions in Taxpayer Money and Get Away With It
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:10 PM :: 3516 Views :: National News
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...the housing entities’ “profits paid to the Treasury in 2013 alone have resulted in federal spending and deficits being underreported by more than $100 billion....
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Monday, March 10, 2014 |
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Who's Watching You Online?
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:36 AM :: 4168 Views :: National News
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“Exploiting social networks for military and intelligence purposes is a global game”
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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Happy 225th Birthday, U.S. Constitution!
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:54 PM :: 3544 Views :: National News
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It was 225 years ago that the Constitution officially came into effect, when members of Congress were sworn in for the first time in New York City....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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A Quick Guide to Obama's 2015 Budget
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:06 PM :: 3817 Views :: National News
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...Heritage experts dive into President Obama’s new budget proposal....
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 |
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Only One of These Makes the Country Work
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:32 AM :: 3740 Views :: National News
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“America’s greatness is found in its individuals, not in the collective....”
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Monday, March 3, 2014 |
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Gov. Bobby Jindal: America, We Can Do Better
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:11 AM :: 4038 Views :: National News
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In Washington, facts can sometimes be stubborn things. I guess that’s why some media pundits thought my comments at a governors’ association meeting last Monday—which highlighted the slow growth and failed economic policies of our President—impolitic or impolite.....
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
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Are You Being Represented?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 4308 Views :: National News
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Do the hot topics in Washington reflect your concerns about the country?
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
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How to Free the Housing Market from Government—and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:50 AM :: 3818 Views :: National News
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"...send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again...."
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Monday, February 17, 2014 |
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When Presidents Upheld the Law
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4041 Views :: National News
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What a contrast to President Barack Obama’s “I can do whatever I want” attitude ....
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Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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7 Times Obama Ignored the Law to Impose His Executive Will
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:55 AM :: 3686 Views :: National News
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"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2008
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Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
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If Only a Snow Shovel Could Dig Us Out of This
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:15 AM :: 3596 Views :: National News
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Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history....
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
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Congress Is Giving Obama a Blank Check
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:30 AM :: 3766 Views :: National News
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Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....
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Monday, February 10, 2014 |
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Stuck in Congressional "Groundhog Day"
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 3697 Views :: National News
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This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....
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Friday, February 7, 2014 |
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You Can't Trust Washington on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:45 PM :: 3787 Views :: National News
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President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws....
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Thursday, February 6, 2014 |
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Bam! We're Already Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 3928 Views :: National News
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By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....
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Thursday, February 6, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega still missing; American Samoa in legislative Danger
By Selected News Articles @ 5:04 AM :: 7636 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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We found no small irony in Gabbard quickly taking the seat Faleomavaega waited years to earn....
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 |
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Explosive Report: How Obamacare Will Drive People Out of the Workforce
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 4644 Views :: National News, Health Care
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...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014 |
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Taxpayers Covering Insurance Companies' Losses
By NCPA @ 7:31 PM :: 4543 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The federal government will reimburse insurers for 50 percent of any losses through the "risk corridors" in the Affordable Care Act....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014 |
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"I Don't Know How President Obama Thinks That He's Helping Us"
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:11 PM :: 4605 Views :: National News, Health Care
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“Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over, ‘If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance’?”
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Saturday, February 1, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega on Hillary’s Hit List?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:02 PM :: 6874 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Faleomavaega was one of Obama’s earliest backers while then Gov. Togiola Tulafono endorsed then-Sen. Clinton....
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Friday, January 31, 2014 |
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Immigration Plan: Trust Obama?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:28 AM :: 4076 Views :: National News
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House Republicans say they are ready to move forward with an immigration reform plan....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
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The President Won't Be Needing You
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 4247 Views :: National News
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President Obama says this is a “year of action”—and last night he made it very clear whose action he was talking about....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Republican Response to State of the Union
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 4179 Views :: National News
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...after five years of promises, what do we have to show for it?....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Full Text: State of the Union Speech 2014
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 4268 Views :: National News
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Let’s make this a year of action....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Grassroot Institute: Obama Needs to Respect Constitution
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:54 PM :: 5554 Views :: Akaka Bill, National News
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As every middle school student is taught, the legislative branch makes laws, as the executive branch executes those laws....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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SOTU: 7 Things It's Not Too Late For
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:53 AM :: 3988 Views :: National News
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1. Save Americans from skyrocketing energy bills....
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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Hawaii's Weak Congressional Delegation Unable to Protect Tsunami Center
By News Release @ 4:57 AM :: 6729 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Labor
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...NOAA has quietly elevated its tsunami warning center in Alaska by relegating its Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to secondary status....
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega Still Finds Ways to Travel
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 PM :: 6143 Views :: National News, Ethics, Politicians
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... National Journal has published an article titled “How Lobbyists Still Fly Through Loopholes” and it should not surprise anyone that our South Pacific flyboy is among the Members of Congress featured....
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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Progressive Tax Code Not Visible in Tax Expenditures
By NCPA @ 2:46 PM :: 5670 Views :: National News, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....
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Sunday, January 19, 2014 |
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Bumble Bee CEO to Faleomavaega: You’re a Liar
By Selected News Articles @ 2:00 AM :: 8795 Views :: National News, World News, Labor
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Bumble Bee chief executive Chris Lischewski has called untrue the Delegate’s assertion that Bumble Bee tuna is processed by child labor....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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OMB: $101B Spent on Incorrect Federal Payments Each Year
By NCPA @ 2:34 PM :: 4812 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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Why Did the Benghazi Story Change?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 7243 Views :: National News, World News, Military
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An explosive intelligence report made public this week revealed that officials knew it was a terrorist attack that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012—and they knew right away....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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How Congress Gets Away with Spending THIS Much Money
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3605 Views :: National News
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The relatively small, district-level pork projects are dwarfed, however, by the entitlement programs that are actually sucking away our money year after year....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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Omnibus Laden With $744M Federal Pork for Hawaii
By News Release @ 5:18 AM :: 5982 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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... more than $744 million directly for Hawaii projects ....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega Video Raises More Questions than Answers
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 AM :: 5353 Views :: National News, Politicians
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Faleomavaega issued a news release Monday to accompany a copy of a 30-second video Christmas greeting he provided KVZK-TV during the holidays. In his statement he blasted Samoa News for not publishing earlier releases ....
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
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Government Failures Congress Wants You to Fund This Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 3494 Views :: National News
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Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are getting millions (or billions) of dollars....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
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Index of Economic Freedom: US Drops to 12th
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 3775 Views :: National News
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When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.
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Monday, January 13, 2014 |
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More Local Media Fraud on Faleomavaega?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:47 PM :: 6532 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation
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We thought the media had turned the corner on the issue of how to handle the disappearance of Faleomavaega....
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Saturday, January 11, 2014 |
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Washington Correspondent Breaks Faleomavaega Illness Story
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 5732 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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...the first newsperson in Washington, D.C. to address the question of Eni Faleomavaega’s prolonged absence from the Nation’s Capital....
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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Tuna War: Congratulations, Samoa News
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 6247 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Yesterday we called on the media to take seriously the tuna content issue being fought out in the Farm Bill in Congress and Samoa News led with a page one story today....
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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Members of Congress Won't Read This Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:20 AM :: 3999 Views :: National News
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Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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Will Minimum Wage Legislation Wreck American Samoa Economy Again?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 6490 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Labor
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Faleomavaega got caught napping in 2007 and by the time he raced back to Washington in an effort to get us extricated, it was too late....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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Report: Am Samoa Governor Prepares to Replace Faleomavaega
By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 PM :: 4055 Views :: National News
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Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the only candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is an assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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How to Fight Poverty -- and Win
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 3605 Views :: National News
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President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964....
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