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McCain-Feingold II: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Throughout the debate over the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, critics warned that instead of reducing the role of money in politics, it would simply divert million-dollar contributions from broad-based political parties to special interest groups. They warned as well that, once outside the regulated domain of the parties, those contributions would disappear from public scrutiny.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.
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Defense Sequester Policy Briefing

Defense Sequester Policy Briefing

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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