Republicans: No Secret Meetings

GOP pols urging leadership to conduct budget negotiations in public
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Republicans understand that their political leverage is significantly diminished following their electoral drubbing earlier this month, but some fear that the secretive, high-level nature of negotiations underway risks further undermining the GOP position.

Letter: Menendez Must Be Investigated

NJ GOP focusing in on newly reelected Democratic senator
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The Middlesex County Republican Organization is asking the Senate Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) based on public records and media reports indicating the senator failed to disclose and seek permission for a series of flights to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic between 2010 and 2012.

Movin’ On Up

Paul Ryan addresses income inequality, social mobility in Ohio speech
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Paul Ryan on Wednesday devoted an entire speech to subjects that have been largely absent from the election-year rhetoric: poverty and income mobility. Speaking to a crowd at Cleveland State University, the Republican vice presidential nominee said the United States had failed to live up to one of the country’s most central ideals: that of equal opportunity.

Lobbyists Comfy in Obama White House

Media coverage ignores Obama’s cozy relationship with lobbyists and shattered promises of transparency
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The implication that lobbyists have seen their influence wane under President Barack Obama is belied by the facts.

Through His Teeth

Biden's debate performance contained a litany of falsehoods
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The notoriously gaffe-prone train enthusiast and current vice president of the United States made a number of factually inaccurate statements during last night’s debate.

Mr. Vague

Obama's plans on taxes, spending lack specifics, experts say
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President Obama’s reelection campaign has settled on two primary criticisms of Republican challenger Mitt Romney: His policy proposals are too vague and he’s lying about the details he puts forward.

Foreign Funds

Obama campaign under fire for possible overseas donations
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A groundbreaking report published Monday raises startling questions about the Obama campaign’s potentially illegal practice of accepting and soliciting online donations from foreign nationals, experts say.

ObamaPhones Profiting ObamaDonors

Program to aid the poor lining the pockets of the wealthy
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A wireless company profiting from the so-called “Obama phone” giveaway program is run by a prominent Democratic donor whose wife has raised more than $1.5 million for the president since 2007.

FLASHBACK: Obama Opposed His Own Medicare Plan in 2009

Listen to Obama’s Medicare Hypocrisy
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Just one year before Congress passed President Barack Obama’s controversial healthcare law, the president denounced what would become a central component of the law as “the wrong approach.”

Fostering the War on Women

Dem candidate accused of ‘physical abuse’ against ex-wife
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Bill Foster, a former Democratic House member seeking a return ticket to Congress next year, has a checkered history with women.