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Cardin, Exxon lock horns over SEC oil payment disclosure regulations

Seeded on Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:48 AM EST (TheHill.com)

There's a behind-the-scenes battle afoot over upcoming federal rules that will force oil and mining companies to disclose payments to foreign governments in connection with projects in their countries. The rules will implement a provision — Section 1504 — that Sens.

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Franken: FCC should bury net-neutrality proposal unless it is strengthened

Seeded on Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:35 AM EST (TheHill.com)

Seeded by bobbievee

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is urging the Federal Communications Commission to abandon its latest net-neutrality plan unless it is significantly strengthened.

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The party of NO versus the President of KNOW :opinion

Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:25 AM EST

By Coral Atlas

I don't purport to KNOW - but I'm intelligent enough to understand the President is a lot smarter than all of us.

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Car Insurance Companies Using Credit Scores to Rip off The Working Class

Seeded on Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:31 AM EST ()

Seeded by Curtis Cost

Many car insurance companies use credit scores to determine a person's premiums. In addition, if a person's credit score goes down because of a few missed payments, their premiums will go up. Insurance companies claim that a good credit score somehow equals a good driver.

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Welcome to the Obama Basketball Game!

Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:20 AM EST

By storyartist

We take you live to the basketball event of this holiday season being refereed by President Barack Obama. It's standing room only as the stands are packed with loyal campaign workers and contributors from the 2008 election.

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The One Man Who Can Sink Obama's Tax Plans ~~~ Crazy As Sh!t But His Own Man

Seeded on Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:20 PM EST (The Daily Beast)

Seeded by jade-log

Could this be the Congress that finally gets serious about the national debt? Not if Grover Norquist has anything to say about it.

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CEOs Receiving Gold-Plated Health Packages As Most Workers Struggle With Rising Premiums

Seeded on Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:20 PM EST (Think Progress)

Seeded by jade-log

Though millions of workers face rising health insurance costs and dwindling benefits in 2011, many CEOs will retain employer-paid medical plans and health benefits worth thousands of dollars.

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President to GOP: go ahead make my day! :opinion

Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:01 PM EST

By Coral Atlas

I want to stay in front of this story as it develops. It's a political rendition of shootout at the OK corral. The best of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. The GOOD (our President) the BAD (the GOP) and the UGLY (radicals mostly on the right and some left).

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Democrats Mount Rebellion against Obama's Capitulation to Republicans Demands.... Sarah Palin compares Obama to Carter

Seeded on Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:03 PM EST (Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed)

Seeded by truthlover

Democrats in the US House of Representatives refused to vote on a tax package that they said gave away too much money to the wealthy. The unanimous decision, taken at a heated closed-doors meeting of the Democratic caucus, was a major blow to the White House.

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