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Obama’s Comment on Keating Five Scandal Is ‘Politics as Usual’

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has spent the past 16 months telling the American people that his candidacy and eventual ascension to the presidency will spell the end of the “old politics” of division and rancor. His is a different kind of politics, he says, one that eschews partisan or personal attacks in favor of transformational change and unity.

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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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