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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 |
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Congress Back in Session: Faleomavaega a No Show
By Selected News Articles @ 8:51 PM :: 6107 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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...at last local radio station 93KHJ-FM has published a breakthrough article today on its talanei.com website asking about the delegate’s health....
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Monday, January 6, 2014 |
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The National Debt in One Picture
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3538 Views :: National News
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Congress is beginning its new year with a budget deal that busts right through “caps” it was supposed to have on spending....
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014 |
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The Left's Big Issue for 2014
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:42 PM :: 4376 Views :: National News
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The liberal Center for American Progress launched a new center devoted to the subject, and President Obama has been making it a centerpiece of his speeches....
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Monday, December 30, 2013 |
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Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:28 PM :: 4081 Views :: National News
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The cupboard is overflowing with liquor, crystal glassware, and more....
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Saturday, December 28, 2013 |
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Samoa News Continues to Deceive Public on Faleomavaega; credibility sinking
By Selected News Articles @ 6:01 PM :: 8647 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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We had hoped our common sense prescriptions on how to handle questionable statements emanating from the office of Delegate Faleomavaega would have proved persuasive to Samoa News but apparently not....
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Friday, December 27, 2013 |
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Your Money in Pictures: The Top 5 Charts of 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:55 AM :: 4505 Views :: National News
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What If a Typical Family Spent Money Like the Federal Government? ....
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
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Flood Insurance: Sharpening the Government's Blurry Maps
By Selected News Articles @ 1:58 PM :: 7027 Views :: National News, Land Use, Cost of Living
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FEMA's maps govern whether home and business owners are required to buy flood insurance....
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 |
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8 Americans to Remember This Christmas
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:21 AM :: 5313 Views :: National News
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While most of us are gathering with loved ones, there are Americans being held prisoner in repressive countries around the world....
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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Succession Plan Quietly Underway for Faleomavaega Seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 6924 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
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Christmas vacation: Obamas get trip to Hawaii, taxpayers get ‘jelly-of-the-month’ club
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:00 PM :: 5169 Views :: National News
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...The president and his friends pay rent for the 17-day trip, about $25,000 per week. Taxpayers pay for most everything else, about $4 million....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
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What the Government Got You This Year (in Pictures)
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 3720 Views :: National News
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Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory....
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
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Samoa Reporter Accidentally Admits Coverup: Missing Congressman Found "Convalescing in Utah"
By Andrew Walden @ 11:25 PM :: 10503 Views :: National News, Ethics, First Amendment, Politicians
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...American Samoa Congressional Delegate Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr has been found...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Talanei Perpetuating Faleomavaega Fraud?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 9981 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Samoa News finally raises questions about Faleomavaega
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 7061 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
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Rep Faleomavaega a No-Show Again
By Selected News Articles @ 5:13 PM :: 6758 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
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The More You Buy, the More You Save
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 3967 Views :: National News
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Some Members of Congress are using this logic in their latest budget proposal....
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
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3 Things You Need to Know About the Congressional Budget Deal
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:56 AM :: 3524 Views :: National News
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Many had high hopes that the first budget conference in four years would make a substantial down payment toward fixing the U.S. spending and debt crisis.....
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
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UPDATE: Faleomavaega a "no show" at event; Remarks delivered for him
By Selected News Articles @ 9:32 PM :: 6638 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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We will be watching via internet to see if he shows up at his subcommittee session tomorrow....
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 |
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An Unlimited Christmas Credit Card
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 3614 Views :: National News
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What if you had no spending limits this holiday season?
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Monday, December 9, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Faleomavaega back in action?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:38 PM :: 4302 Views :: National News
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...there has been a virtual blackout of news coverage....
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Saturday, December 7, 2013 |
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Undoing the Past
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:03 PM :: 4721 Views :: National News
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This week marked the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.....
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Monday, December 2, 2013 |
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Supreme Court Declines to hear Online Sales Tax Case
By Selected News Articles @ 12:41 PM :: 4360 Views :: National News, Taxes
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The law is a complicated one, made so in an effort to get around the Supreme Court’s past rulings that states could not require sales tax collection by a company if that company is not physically present in the state....
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Monday, December 2, 2013 |
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Beware of Happy Talk on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3436 Views :: National News
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Is immigration reform coming back from the dead?
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Friday, November 29, 2013 |
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Black Friday Spending Spree (in Washington)
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:28 AM :: 5019 Views :: National News, Taxes
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...members of the budget conference committee are considering several options that could increase spending by up to an additional $100 billion....
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Coverup on Rep Faleomavaega Health Questions?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:07 PM :: 7585 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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It has been almost a month now since Delegate Faleomavaega was stricken with some unrevealed ailment after arriving on an evening flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago....
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Friday, November 22, 2013 |
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They Got Away With It
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:39 AM :: 4140 Views :: National News
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"...my colleagues propose this rule change because they can get away with it...." -- Sen Barack Obama
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
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While Obama Remakes the Courts, Harry Reid Wants to Remake the Senate
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 3464 Views :: National News
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"Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster—if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate—then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2005
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
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Is Our Government Still "Of the People"?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:45 PM :: 4140 Views :: National News
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Seven score and 10 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered the greatest speech in American history....
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
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Congress Should Do These 3 Things in the Next 31 Days
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:49 AM :: 3628 Views :: National News
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In the next 31 days—starting today—the budget conference committee will try to accomplish something Congress has failed to do for the past four years....
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Friday, November 8, 2013 |
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U.S. Sugar Policy Sends Candy Makers Abroad
By NCPA @ 10:06 AM :: 7226 Views :: National News, Agriculture, Small Business, Cost of Living
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U.S. candy makers are expanding production in other countries as federal price supports and a global glut of the sweet stuff give an ever-greater advantage to foreign rivals....
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Friday, November 1, 2013 |
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FCC Announces $1M for Hawaiian Tel Rural Broadband on Big Island
By News Release @ 5:17 AM :: 4850 Views :: National News, Ethics
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And the money didn't go to Sandwich Isles Communications!
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Monday, October 28, 2013 |
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From One Obamacare to Another
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:48 AM :: 4507 Views :: National News
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Obama is now back to beating the broken drum on amnesty....
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Monday, October 21, 2013 |
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$17,000,000,000,000
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:33 PM :: 4451 Views :: National News
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President Obama boasted last week that he had signed legislation to lift “the twin threats” to our economy....
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Saturday, October 19, 2013 |
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Pew: Five States Which Paid to Keep National Parks, Monuments Open
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 8450 Views :: National News, Hawaii Statistics, Military, Tourism
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Visitors spend about $76 million a day in communities near national parks, the National Park Service estimated....
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Friday, October 18, 2013 |
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Obama’s Priorities vs. the Economy
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:04 PM :: 3724 Views :: National News
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Now that the government is whirring again, President Obama has identified three priorities for the country....
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
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Djou: Afghanistan Casualties Teach Nation a Lesson on Shutdown
By Rep Charles Djou @ 4:30 PM :: 5480 Views :: National News, Military
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...these soldiers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, will return home this week to a nation that initially refused to pay their families the military death benefit....
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
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Now and Later: The Impact of the Government Shutdown
By UHERO @ 2:24 AM :: 6619 Views :: National News, Hawaii Statistics, Military
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There are about 34,000 civilian federal jobs in Hawaii, a fraction of which were deemed essential....
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Monday, October 14, 2013 |
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Two Things Washington Cannot Ignore
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:12 AM :: 5064 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The House has passed a variety of bills that would have reopened portions of the federal government, but the Senate has rejected them....
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 |
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Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 4757 Views :: National News, Health Care
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President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive....
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Saturday, October 5, 2013 |
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Grassroot: Poll Favors Limited, Accountable Government
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:08 PM :: 4415 Views :: National News
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Grassroot Institute has been spreading the word about the results of the Reason Foundation’s poll....
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Friday, October 4, 2013 |
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Mr. President, You Can End the Government Shutdown
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 3663 Views :: National News
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Obama is so intent on protecting his unpopular, unworkable, and unfair health care law that he’d prefer to keep the government closed....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Storming the Barricades in Washington
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 3740 Views :: National News
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On Tuesday, the National Park Service put up barricades around the open-air memorial that is normally accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even when Park Service personnel are not there....
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013 |
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How’s the Economy at Your House?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:03 PM :: 3819 Views :: National News
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...the furor over Washington furloughs will only take you so far in the rest of America....
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
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Shutdown: HRP Chairman Calls for Senate to Act
By David S Chang @ 7:44 PM :: 6153 Views :: National News, Health Care, Republican Party
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The House has continually been reaching out to the Senate Democrats and President Obama to pass a resolution to ensure everyone receives equal treatment....
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
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The Story Behind the Government Shutdown
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:18 PM :: 5081 Views :: National News, Health Care
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Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare....
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Monday, September 30, 2013 |
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Hawaii GOP: Schatz, Hirono Vote for Government Shutdown
By David S Chang @ 9:00 PM :: 4752 Views :: National News
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Schatz’s own office has indicated that 25,000 federal workers throughout the state would be left without pay....
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Sunday, September 29, 2013 |
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Republicans Pass Compromise Funding Bill, Pay for Troops: Now Democrats Threaten Government Shutdown
By Selected News Articles @ 12:34 PM :: 4681 Views :: National News
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Reps Hanabusa and Gabbard voted against funding the Federal Government....
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Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
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$43,000 Per Household
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 4658 Views :: National News
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Congress has added $43,000 in debt for every American household in just the last four years....
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Monday, September 23, 2013 |
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6 Reasons Why the National Debt Keeps Rising
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:53 AM :: 4235 Views :: National News
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... rather than risk Warren Buffett’s taxpayer-funded benefits decreasing, politicians pretend America’s national budget can handle all the extensive promises they’ve made ....
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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What You Need to Know About the Debt Limit
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:43 AM :: 6461 Views :: National News, Economy, Taxes
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The Congressional Budget Office just dropped a budget update on Washington, and it’s not good. The U.S. government is spending recklessly—and Obamacare is adding fuel to the fire....
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