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Two members of Congress traveled to Liberia late last year, a country now ravaged by the Ebola virus. Their trip, sponsored by the United Nations Foundation, has helped them better understand the area where the virus originated and develop a response.
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A new Republican ad campaign uses the same slogan the GOP used after the Watergate scandal.
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Top Kentucky coal advocate bends over backward to defend McConnell family’s connection to anti-coal group
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Rand Paul tells audience he would use executive orders only to rescind past orders if elected president
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Democrats urge Kentucky Coal Association to demand McConnell’s wife resign from group funding ‘war on coal’
Eight Kentucky state lawmakers sent a letter to the president of the state’s coal industry trade association demanding that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife break ties with Bloomberg Philanthropies after a Yahoo News report detailed her association with the group, which is spending $50 million on an ongoing campaign to kill the coal industry.
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Mitch McConnell's wife sits on the board of a group working to kill the coal industry
While Mitch McConnell accuses his Democratic opponent of being anti-coal, his wife sits on the board of directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has plunged $50 million into an advocacy effort established with the expressed goal of killing the coal industry.
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Congresswoman who co-sponsored Bush impeachment bill said Democrats never tried to impeach Bush
Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said Democrats had never moved to impeach former President George W. Bush, but she co-sponsored a bill to do just that in 2008.
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Exclusive: Sen. John Walsh responds to revelations that he plagiarized Army War College paper
A doctor prescribed Montana Democratic Sen. John Walsh medication for symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder after he returned from an Army deployment in Iraq, but he was not formally diagnosed with PTSD, the senator confirmed to Yahoo News following revelations this week that he had plagiarized a paper to receive his masters degree at the Army War College in 2007.
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