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Subpoenas May Lead to Showdown

House leaders are heading toward a potential legal confrontation with the Justice Department over subpoenas issued quietly last month seeking thousands of pages of documents from the Appropriations, Armed Services and Intelligence committees as part of the ongoing investigation into the activities of incarcerated former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.).

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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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