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Ground Chuck

The partisanship on the Senate Judiciary Committee has gotten so bad that Chairman Orrin Hatch (R), the straight-laced Mormon from Utah, essentially called Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) a “dumb ass” at Wednesday’s hearing.

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Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.
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Defense Sequester Policy Briefing

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Nobody seems to like the automatic Pentagon spending cuts set for January, but there is little Congressional agreement on an alternative.

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