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After several months of debating a supplemental spending bill which would fund U.S. military operations in Iraq through fiscal year 2007 (September of this year), it now appears as though the ...
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Crossposted on [http://www.congresspedia.org/ Congresspedia]
The campaigns of House Reps.
by efullm01
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on Wed May 16, 2007 at 10:11 AM PDT
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While Congress has been busy dealing with issues such as ...
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on Thu May 03, 2007 at 12:57 PM PDT
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Guest poster: Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation :
The controversy ...
by efullm01
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on Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 02:51 PM PDT
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Blogger Atrios lamented today that the Wikipedia ...
by Conor Kenny
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on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 02:53 PM PDT
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The nation's capital has been in an uproar this week over ...
by efullm01
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Under the old, "broadcast" model of journalism and academia, undergraduate students were generally limited to consuming the scholarship of others while their own research and writing was largely ...
by Conor Kenny
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on Mon Feb 26, 2007 at 11:42 AM PST
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Last summer, Congresspedia blogged about ...
by efullm01
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on Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 01:59 PM PST
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The Sunlight Foundation has been doing some really interesting participatory journalism ...
by Conor Kenny
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on Wed Feb 21, 2007 at 02:55 PM PST
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While there are no House seats up for election until next year, two Democratic reps. from Pennsylvania,
by efullm01
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on Fri Feb 02, 2007 at 09:48 AM PST
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Guest blogger: Tim Malacarne
With the 2006 ...
by efullm01
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on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 08:23 AM PST
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Three weeks ago, House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that ...
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on Tue Dec 19, 2006 at 07:51 AM PST
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Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) is recovering from ...
by efullm01
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on Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 09:35 AM PST
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In a runoff election held yesterday in Texas’s 23rd District, former Democratic Rep.
by efullm01
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on Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 02:48 PM PST
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On Saturday, Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) defeated Democratic ...
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on Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 01:16 PM PST
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Guest blogger: Congresspedia intern Tim Malacarne
The ...
by Conor Kenny
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on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 03:12 PM PST
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After decisive Democratic victories in the ...
by efullm01
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on Mon Dec 04, 2006 at 03:02 PM PST
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Earlier this month, voters from the 50 U.S. states shaped the composition of ...
by efullm01
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on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 07:20 AM PST
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by Conor Kenny
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