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June 06, 2011, 10:08 AM
On ABC's "Good Morning America" program today, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum announced he will be running for president in 2012.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday misstated the reason for the 2007 collapse of a Minnesota bridge carrying an interstate freeway over the Mississippi River, inaccurately blaming it on insufficient federal spending on transportation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday disputed warnings that Social Security is headed for bankruptcy, calling those assertions an “outright lie.” And he says the huge federal entitlement program has not added “one penny” to the federal deficit.
(I-Conn.) and Ranking Member (R-Maine) held a press conference to unveil the report and emphasize the "harsh reality" of the committee's findings
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson suggested on Tuesday that American businesses with a “record amount of cash holdings,” estimated at $1.93 trillion, could invest some of those holdings to create jobs that advance pollution control.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said on Tuesday that providing individuals with subsidies under the health care law to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion services is not considered federal funding of abortion.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he welcomes the extension of the energy policy requiring the extension of tax credits and protective tariffs of corn ethanol and is not worried in the long term about the U.S. economy’s capacity to produce corn for food, fuel, feed, and exports because of it.
Michael Steele spent Monday afternoon fending off criticism about his job as chairman of the Republican National Committee during a RNC Chairman's debate.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano began the New Year in Afghanistan, discussing what her department is doing to help secure that country's border with Pakistan only days after a U.S. commander in the region told reporters it was "naive" to think the U.S. could secure the Afghan-Pakistan border like it would the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sen. Mitch McConnell said during a Senate floor speech that such an important matter as the START treaty should not be decided under a deadline.
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