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It was the burden of federal tax law on same-sex couples, after all, that prompted the legal challenge to DOMA in the first place. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Lieberman also has law enforcement experience as the former attorney general of Connecticut. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it’s time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve,” he said in the statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“It’s too important a subject to walk away from.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
As chief of staff and previously as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Mr. Emanuel has not been shy about trying to steer party nominations to those he considers the stronger candidates. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I call on this Congress to root out all the corrupt lawyers and bureaucrats in the DOJ and the FBI so the greatest president of my generation can do the work that the American people duly elected him to do,” Hunter said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
According to the Times, however, while past secretaries of state often used personal email, updated regulations required such emails to be preserved. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“What I have is a backbone, and I want to move Maine forward.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
The fierce competition will end next month with the selection of a chairman for the 2012 election cycle. | 0 | 0 | neu |
There won’t be amnesty inside it.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
While he said he did not oppose government financing of schools, Mr. Santorum said that “public education should be a dynamic process that’s locally run.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Steele’s tenure has been one of the few blemishes this year for the Republican Party, which scored historic victories in the midterm elections. | 0 | 1 | info |
“We’re just one day removed, so it still feels different, I think,” Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said before the game, recalling past tragedies that many swore would reshape the nation’s politics. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Clinton responded to the controversy on Wednesday, tweeting that she had asked the State Department to make her private emails publicly available. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I’ll be right there with you as a citizen, inspired by your voices of truth and justice, good humor, and love.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Romney had stopped short of calling on Akin to resign in an interview with WMUR Monday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump is also expected to approve Congress’ spending bill, which grants him $1.375 billion for the wall, as opposed to the $5.7 billion he initially demanded. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — President Trump assailed Democrats and a television comedian on Wednesday in his latest Twitter blasts since returning from an overseas trip in which he had largely abstained from the sort of combative social media postings that helped propel him to the Oval Office and have gotten him in trouble ever since. | 0 | 1 | info |
“You might think that it’s O.K. that the president’s son-in-law sought to establish a secret back channel of communications with the Russians through a Russian diplomatic facility. | 0 | 1 | info |
"It turns out, Senator McCain would pay for part of his plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare: $882 billion worth -- $882 billion in Medicare cuts to pay for a ill-conceived, badly thought-through health care plan that won't provide more health care to people, even though Medicare is already facing a looming shortfall," Obama declared at a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Wikileaks “does not keep such records and the Atlantic’s presentation is edited and clearly does not have the full context,” Assange wrote. | 0 | 0 | neu |
On Sunday, Robert Gibbs, a political adviser to President Obama, criticized such attacks on “character and faith.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
The resolution was adopted during the annual convention in Kansas City of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spokesman Chris Fleming said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Much of the border is already protected by natural barriers such as mountains and water.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
In response to Mr. Obama, House Republicans said the Democratic-controlled Senate should take up some 16 House-passed measures; most would attack federal regulations or spending and would have long-term impact, analysts say, but they would not spur job creation in the coming year or two. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He said he took full responsibility for his crimes, but said he acted out of blind loyalty to Mr. Trump, who he said “led me to choose a path of darkness over light.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Mr. Trump, who has been criticized for lacing his campaign speeches with profanity, called on Mr. Fox to apologize for using foul language when talking about the wall. | 0 | 1 | info |
And they blasted “hysterical anti-hunters and news media outlets.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump’s personal lawyer John Dowd later said he was the one who wrote that tweet, saying he “did not mean to break news.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Treasury’s actions on Thursday are just the latest in a set of LGBT policies offered by agencies within the Obama administration following the DOMA ruling. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A self-described dirty trickster, Mr. Stone began his career as a Nixon campaign aide and has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. | 0 | 1 | info |
They note that then-President Bill Clinton in 1993 signed similar federal legislation into law, and 19 other states also have similar policies. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The White House claimed Monday that politics were not at play in Obama's decision to dive into the controversy over a planned mosque near Ground Zero. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“The principles they lay out I’m sure won’t satisfy everybody,” Michael R. Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, said at an immigration forum on Friday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump did not immediately respond to the speech. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I thought her comments were disgraceful,” Mr. Trump said at the news conference. | 0 | 1 | info |
Mr. Obama pleaded with Americans during his remarks not to “give in to fear or turn against each other,” a somewhat muted reference to Mr. Trump’s previous call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. | 0 | 1 | info |
"We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Wednesday morning brought some relief for the under-fire justice, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders giving qualified support for her comments. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A handful of others attended the meeting. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Rubio said Obama "wasted no time stripping parts from the engine of American strength," and cast former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his loyal deputy. | 0 | 1 | info |
“I have not done anything wrong. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Arming the teacher is merely a response to the last tragedy,” said Representative Mike Thompson, a California Democrat who is chairman of a House task force on gun violence. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"So we want to have a record vote in the caucus on a resolution that says this resolution should not go to the floor without a majority of Democratic votes." | 0 | 0 | neu |
The candidate sought to draw a contrast with the Obama administration, which he criticized as having a “catch-and-release” policy that allows some nonviolent illegal immigrants to be released back into the general public. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Grimm, the only Republican member of New York City’s congressional delegation, is up for re-election in November and faces a potentially formidable challenger in former City Councilman Domenic M. Recchia Jr., a Democrat who headed the Council’s Finance Committee and was Christine C. Quinn’s chief lieutenant when she was Council speaker. | 0 | 0 | neu |
News of the Clinton conversation was first reported by Greg Sargent at The Plum Line. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He said that he had hired an Internet security company and a lawyer to look into the matter, but that he did not believe the episode merited investigation by federal law enforcement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A young man, dressed in a jacket and tie, approached the congressman on a sidewalk, saying: “Hi, Congressman. How are you? Do you fully support the Obama agenda?” | 0 | 1 | info |
The Israeli businessman who had served as Grimm's liaison to Pinto's followers, Ofer Biton, pleaded guilty in August to an immigration fraud charge. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The list of bad players in the FBI & DOJ gets longer & longer. | 0 | 1 | info |
McConnell warned Trump in private that declaring an emergency would spark a backlash among Republicans, according to The Washington Post. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“But the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly — much less that the state government should be running schools — is anachronistic. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He had to be contained and courteous when he debated Sarah Palin four years ago, lest he look like a bully. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Macroeconomic Advisors, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs projected smaller increases but no less than at least 0.5 percentage point. | 0 | 0 | neu |
DeMint, who said Afghanistan is a war the United States must win, said Steele needs to "refocus" on the November election. | 0 | 0 | neu |
From his reset with Russia, to his open hand to Iran, to his unreciprocated opening to Cuba, he has embraced regimes that systematically oppose every principle our nation has long championed.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Saudi Arabia has threatened to retaliate by selling off hundreds of billions of dollars in American assets. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"So to restore American strength, my first priority will be to adequately fund our military. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Santorum said he never questioned the president's faith and repeatedly said he believes Obama is a Christian. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“The problem here, Mr. Sellers says, is that the records are not available,” Mr. Boutrous said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“If Nebraska and Oklahoma succeed, they will put the violent criminal organizations back in charge,” Michael Elliott, the executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a Colorado-based trade group, said in a statement. | 0 | 1 | info |
He demanded that Mr. Obama resign because he refused to say the words “radical Islam” in his remarks. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But heading into the three-day Republican retreat, even some of the most ardent conservatives say consensus is forming around an immigration package that would include several separate bills on border security; a clampdown against the hiring of undocumented workers; expanded guest-worker programs; a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children; and a path to legal status for undocumented workers with family ties to citizens or employer sponsors. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He said the core of American national interests lay in “providing effective leadership to our alliances,” and specifically described the importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defense alliance Mr. Trump has often derided. | 1 | 0 | lex |
“I probably have a generational reaction to it,” Pelosi said at an MSNBC town hall. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And that number continues to decline each year. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And on Thursday, the capital’s various institutional forces — senators and lobbyists, staff members with a job to do and residents with an evening to spare — joined, for a moment, in a bipartisan rebuttal: Play ball. | 0 | 0 | neu |
They vowed Congress would "defend our constitutional authorities in the Congress, in the Courts, and in the public, using every remedy available." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Texas Congressman Who Settled Harassment Case With Taxpayer Funds Resigns | 0 | 0 | neu |
My job is to lead, and that's what I try to do," Christie said in 2014, according to the AP. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Her historic campaign inspired millions and is an extension of her lifelong fight for middle-class families and children," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement. | 0 | 1 | info |
“He would defend his views,” Mr. Standefer said. | 0 | 1 | info |
“With the government open, we can negotiate an agreement to strengthen border security that both sides can support and that is in the best interests of the American people.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) recently introduced a compromise bill on extending unemployment benefits. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"We already have things on the calendar," said the Democratic staffer, noting that right now, it doesn't appear as if tax cuts will come before these measures that are already in the queue. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"We don't care about the pigment of one's skin," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — The tableau at the White House was chillingly familiar: The somber president, nearing the end of his eight-year term, walked grim-faced to the podium to offer his condolences, promised action in the wake of suffering and pleaded for a new resolve that just might prevent more deaths in a hail of bullets. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Colorado’s attorney general, John Suthers, a Republican, said in a statement that the challenge from Nebraska and Oklahoma was “without merit.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Both political parties will hold special-election primaries in mid May. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The precise justification for Bowdich’s decision to fire Strzok despite the recommendation of the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility is unclear. | 0 | 1 | info |
Employees would have to dip into their savings or borrow money to pay their bills, as there is no government program to help them. | 0 | 1 | info |
“Ground zero is hallowed ground to Americans,” Elliott Maynard, a Republican trying to unseat Representative Nick J. Rahall II, a Democrat, in West Virginia’s Third District, said in a typical statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This was a Republican party tracking operation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Republicans hit back on Tuesday with a television commercial asserting that the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan was better for older Americans. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Hutchinson, too, said the country is clearly split on how to balance religious traditions with non-discrimination. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch said there was no timeline for the process, but it could take weeks. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It also has enormous political implications for Mrs. Clinton, the former New York senator who is already regarded as the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to run. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Morell believed it was irrelevant to the message of the talking points -- what happened in Benghazi -- and unprofessional to include those warnings but not allow State Department officials to include how they had responded to them. | 0 | 1 | info |
“I don’t think we need to translate that.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
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A number of Democrats lined up behind Mr. Schumer. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Though Tea Party activists provided the energy and votes for Mr. Cantor’s ouster, the elections might be more of a plea for a place at the leadership table. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Williams sustained a minor leg injury. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Nadler, whose view is that the developers were entitled to build the mosque at the selected location if they choose, said, “Ultimately I suspect that once this simmers down in a few weeks, people will realize that everybody’s liberty is at stake here.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Then White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama was not "backing off" his original remarks. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Another former primary candidate, ex-Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, did endorse Clinton, saying "it is time now to unite our party." | 0 | 0 | neu |
But, as Mr. Smythe pointed out, “the committees of jurisdiction determine the details” in separate legislation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
On Saturday, thousands of protesters gathered at the Statehouse as businesses and other governments announced a halt to business with the state and the capital, Indianapolis, over the law. | 0 | 0 | neu |
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