Women In Politics

Tea Party Candidates Eye Upcoming Primaries
Political Hopefuls Determined to Capture GOP Nominations, Upend Status Quo

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Tea Party’s Next Wave On The Rise
Rifle through a stack of tea party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller’s will stand out. The man who wants to turn a fellow Republican, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, out of office is a graduate of Yale Law School and West Point, a decorated combat veteran and former judge.

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HUFFPOST HILL – JULY 2ND, 2010
What’s Your Reaction? Just as we were settling into a nice July 4th groove, Michael Steele went and got all tree-huggy on everyone, saying the war in Afghanistan is hopeless.

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Bruce Nilles: Senator Robert Byrd: An Appreciation
This post was co-written by Mary Anne Hitt of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, who is also a native West Virginian.On September 21, 2006,…

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Senators predict a climate bill capping emissions only for utilities
A bipartisan group of senators emerged Tuesday from a meeting with President Obama still divided over how to craft a climate and energy bill, with lawmakers predicting scaled-back legislation that would cap emissions from electric utilities rather than impose an economy-wide limit on greenhouse… Bipartisanship – Climate change – Environment – United States – Activism

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APNewsBreak: 8 AK towns seek to kill land bill
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Democrats Willing to `Scale Back’ Carbon Cap in Energy Bill, Kerry Says
Obama told a bipartisan group of 23 senators at the White House he wants energy legislation to make companies pay a price for releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, said Kerry, the lead author of a plan to curb the pollution that scientists have linked to climate change.

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Cleaner energy drives a healthier economy
According to a May 26 poll by USA Today, the American public is mad at nearly everyone over the Gulf oil spill disaster, especially British Petroleum. This poll also showed that amidst the anger, there is a shift in attitudes about energy and the environment.

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Weed out spending: Government offers to compensate Alaska farms for their remoteness
News-Miner editorial The federal government announced last week that it will pay Alaska farmers because they’re in Alaska and that gives them a disadvantage. This is the sort of program tha…

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Tea partiers rally in Anchorage, set to endorse candidates
A Valley-based conservative group that considers itself part of the national tea party movement drew more than 200 people to a low-key rally Thursday on the Delaney Park Strip.

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