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Updated 2:40 p.m. | New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie set the special election to replace the late Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg for Oct. 16, with a special pr Delete the scoop?
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Time is on the block. The New York Times is teetering. It can get an alumnus down, but the last thing the news business needs is a case of nostalgia. 
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June 1, 4:31 PM
I love Frank Rich. First, he shares two of my favorites loves -- the theatre and politics. Second, I somehow agree with the vast majority of what he has to say about both subjects. Delete the scoop?
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This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: Now that the regular legislative session is over and the special session is under way, the focus has turned to who may be running for office in 2014, and to another round of redistricting. Delete the scoop?
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The Court is set to make history with a ruling on the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. In June the Supreme Court is set to make history with a ruling on the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Delete the scoop?
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Paul Scott says it will be expensive, but it will allow him to make points about electric cars directly to the president. Delete the scoop?
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Most people aren't aware of the fight over Bristol Bay, but it may be one of the most important environmental decisions President Obama faces in his second term. Delete the scoop?
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Legalizing marijuana will hurt drug lords, help cash-strapped states, and ease burdens on police and prisons. Yet D.C. dithers. Delete the scoop?
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Restoring public faith will require a full investigation of the IRS's politicization, Peggy Noonan writes. Delete the scoop?
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The House Agriculture Committee prides itself on bipartisanship, but when the panel met Wednesday to consider a new farm bill, the deep cultural divides between its Republican majority and Democratic minority members were in full relief. Delete the scoop?
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Work is continuing along the I-69 corridor, with the Texas Transportation Commission approving new segments of the highway. Delete the scoop?
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President Barack Obama is back in Chicago tonight for a pair of fundraisers as Democrats try to capture the House and defend the Senate next year. Delete the scoop?
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The best of the best political blogs in the 50 states. Delete the scoop?
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State Rep. Tom Craddick, who authored a bill that would have made texting while driving a criminal offense in Texas, is pointing the finger at Senate Transportation Chairman Robert Nichols over the measure's failure. Delete the scoop?
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Here are summaries of five of the biggest cases awaiting rulings by the Supreme Court. Decisions will be released between now and the end of June.
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As always, June is one of the most interesting month for Supreme Court junkies! Delete the scoop?
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What's good for today could be bad for tomorrow. Case in point: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).
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Young Democrats & Young Republicans -- Decide where you can make the biggest difference for your party this summer Delete the scoop?
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President Obama tried to rein in the revolving door of influence, but an old Washington tradition endures Delete the scoop?
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Fifteen members of Congress received federal agricultural subsidies in 2012, mostly from a program that could soon be eliminated by legislation now before the Senate. Delete the scoop?
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A writer goes through "the most invasive process in politics"—being vetted as a running mate by the same person who vetted Sarah Palin in 2008:
"It starts unobtrusively enough. 'So you're the vice president, and the president is visiting Seoul,' Frank begins, unspooling an elaborate scenario in which the president's hotel gets decimated by a car bomb, 200,000 North Korean troops cross the DMZ, and the Joint Chiefs urge me to take out Pyongyang with a tactical nuclear weapon. 'Do you authorize the strike?' he asks, trying to get a sense of my political judgment (as much a part of the vet now as excavating secrets). I wonder if the question is also a reaction to Frank's Palin experience, recalling the scene in Game Change in which Palin reveals that she doesn't even know that there are two Koreas. But I push those thoughts aside and dodge the question by asking for more military options, trying to cover my fecklessness by name-dropping Seal Team Six. Next, Frank hits me with an easier hypothetical, about a deadlocked Senate and a Supreme Court nominee who appears to be against gay marriage. 'Do you support the president and cast the tiebreaker in favor of the president's nominee?' he asks. Of course I do, I respond. I'm a team player. The president can always count on me."AUTHOR:Jason ZengerleSOURCE:GQPUBLISHED: July 17, 2012LENGTH: 19 minutes (4870 words) Delete the scoop?
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Indiana Republican in weekly address slams president's budget for proposing "more spending and more debt" Delete the scoop?
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In his State of the Union address this year, President Obama urged repairs of "the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country." He proposed a plan called "Fix it First," which would have invested $50 billion in repairing... Delete the scoop?
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