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Posted by About.com US Politics on July 2nd, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
It's the weekend of July 4, 2011, and so it seems like a good time to take a step back and look at how our representative form of democracy is working these days.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 30th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
It's not uncommon for a Senate Majority Leader to go to the Senate floor and warn colleagues that he will cancel an upcoming recess if they don't complete their work.
Often the warning results in a flurry of activity after which senators flee the Capitol for a break. This year Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said it and meant it. He canceled the Senate's week-long July 4, 2011 recess, although he continues to be under pressure to reverse the decision. (For the record, the House of Representatives is scheduled to be back in session on July 6, 2011.)
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 25th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
Among the people closely watching the current debate over raising the debt ceiling is a man named Grover Norquist. He's president of a benign-sounding group known as Americans for Tax Reform.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 24th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
If you were watching the United States Senate on June 23, 2011, you might have thought your television was on the fritz; there were more stripes than usual on the screen. It wasn't your television; it was Seersucker Thursday.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 23rd, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
An emotionally charged issue that divides many Americans will come to a head at a meeting next week in our nation's capital. No, it's not the war. Or abortion. Or even guns. It's college football bowl games.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 18th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
June 17 is a watershed date in American history. It was on that day in 1972 that five burglars were arrested breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 16th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
Longtime watchers of Newt Gingrich knew that a little staff revolt wasn't going to drive him out of the race for the Republican nomination for president.
Just days after his presidential campaign staff quit in a huff, Gingrich gave a speech in Los Angeles in which he pledged to soldier on. He pledged to keep campaigning, even though staff members in the hierarchy of his organization left as a group.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 12th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
Sometimes Congress has a hard time doing its job and it can have serious ramifications. Take the requirement that Congress is supposed to reauthorize programs periodically, once the programs are created.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 11th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
Anthony Weiner has become the Democrats' problem that won't go away.
After it was revealed that the married Democratic congressman exchanged twitter messages with a 17-year-old Delaware girl - not just adults - three key Democrats said Weiner should quit.
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Posted by About.com US Politics on June 10th, 2011 | Categorized as US Politics
Some politicians seem to be having problems with new-fangled technology and they're getting in trouble because of it. They can't seem to accept that there is no such thing as private communication anymore.
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