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VP Biden to kick off curing cancer initiative in Philadelphia
In the State of the Union address, President Obama announced he’s putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of an initiative to cu ...
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Psychologist-congressman from Pittsburgh pushing mental health approach to mass shootings
U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy from suburban Pittsburgh remembers first hearing about the mass shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College ...
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ListenSome Dems insincere on gun law reforms, Toomey and Manchin say
In the wake of recent mass shootings, Democrats have been holding high-profile press conferences on gun control in Washington. Sen ...
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ListenWill GOP moderates play role in House Speaker election?
Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner was once considered one of the most conservative lawmakers in Congress. But he angered the tea party ...
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ListenBassetts Ice Cream sales to China could melt without Export-Import Bank
Bassetts Ice Cream is America’s oldest ice cream company. Michael Strange’s great-great-grandfather founded it, and he’ ...
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ListenArea legislators express skepticism, worries on Iran nuclear deal
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Secretary of State John Kerry know each other well from their days serving together as Senate De ...
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ListenOn eve of Pacific Rim trade vote, area legislators wary of another NAFTA
It’s hard, if not impossible, to tell the true impact of trade agreements. Take NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreeme ...
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Sen. Menendez of NJ not hiding while fighting indictment
For a few weeks, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, has had a federal indictment hanging over him. The Garden State’s senior sen ...
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ListenFEMA to reopen 140,000 Sandy claims as new task force presses for reforms
Lawmakers and nonprofits launched the Superstorm Sandy Task Force in Washington Tuesday as a way of pressuring the government to provide ...
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Republicans in Congress talk about what to do if Supreme Court upends Obamacare
The last time the Supreme Court took up so called Obamacare, it surprised court watchers by ruling the individual health insurance mandat ...
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ListenPhilly delegation reflects on the do ‘next to nothing’ Congress
The 113th Congress was so unmemorable, it will likely be confined to a footnote in history books: it’s the second least produc ...
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ListenWhatever happened to push to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare?
The campaign to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act helped Republicans capture control of the U.S. House in 2010 and ...
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