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Stephanopoulos Predicts Possible Civil War Among Republicans ABC News 11 07 2012
By: Irum Almas
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Senate Republicans Block Minimum Wage Increase
"The Senate voted on Wednesday against going ahead on a bill that would gradually increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour, ano...
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David Plouffe Slams Republicans over Benghazi
Calls them a "very loud, delusional minority."
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After the release this week of an email from the White House to former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, House Republicans launched another investigation into the incident on Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens was among four Americans killed in attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. The attacks were initially blamed on protests that span out of control, but were later found to have been a planned terrorist attack.
The Obama administrations reaction to the incident has come under intense scrutiny from Republican lawmakers, who have charged the White House with attempting to mislead the public over the nature of the attacks. The Sept. 14, 2012 e-mail to Rice, which emerged this week, has been cited as a smoking gun in the alleged cover-up. The White House has maintained it relied on talking points prepared by the CIA to keep the public informed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, and denied any attempt to mislead.
Republicans took to the Sunday cable news shows to call for more attention to be focused on the issue, but Democrats have dismissed a new congressional committee on Benghazi unveiled by House Speaker John Boehner this week as both a distraction and a waste of taxpayers money.
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Republicans Insist White House Email Justifies Benghazi Probe
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The state senate could be moving today to overturn Governor Nixons veto a tax bill that he says would be a disaster for the state.
The sponsor of the tax cut bill says the first thing to do is count noses, make sure all the Republicans are here and Ill make a motion and well move forward. And if Senator Will Kraus of Lees Summit finds all Republicans are present, hell make the motion to enact the bill despite Governor Nixons contention that it has wording interpreted by some scholars as devastating to financing of state programs.
Kraus thinks Nixon is trying to scare people. The fiscal note dont show that. He also says it will cut education, thats an assumption thats not there. This bill protects education. Two year delay that allow us to fully fund educationThose assumptions that were going to cut education and those assumptions that this is going to have a huge fiscal note are just false, he says.
Nixon points to part of the bill that he interprets to mean the state would no longer be able to collect income taxes on people making $9,000 or more and has some experts in tax law and economics backing him up. Republicans have emphasized a letter from a former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice who says the courts probably would uphold the Republican position.
Republicans cannot afford to have any defections on the override votes. An override takes two-thirds of the elected members, a standard Republicans can meet if none of them accept Nixons contention that a veto override will devastate state finances.
(Bob Priddy, Missourinet)
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Republicans Prepare For Veto Override