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Understanding Congress' payroll tax cut fight

Tags: Congress , payroll tax cut , Barack Obama , Mitch McConnell , budget 2012

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Boarman to step down as GPO chief

Senate leaves town without confirming nomination of 26th public printer. Boarman is unclear why his nomination has stalled.

Tags: Senate , Congress , Orrin Hatch , John Isakson , Andrew Breitbart , GPO , Bill Boarman , people

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Senate begins work on FISMA update

Lieberman said a congressional staff is reviewing draft legislative language of the comprehensive cybersecurity legislation, which includes an update to the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act. Sen. Reid promised to work on a cyber bill during the early part of the Senate session in 2012.

Tags: technology , cybersecurity , Joe Lieberman , Howard Schmidt , Congress , Tom Carper , FISMA , Diane Watson , Jason Miller , Homeland Security and Defense Business Council

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Congress clears $662 billion defense bill

Tags: DoD , Senate , Leon Panetta , Rand Paul , Treasury Department , Bob Menendez , Dianne Feinstein , Mark Kirk , Kelly Ayotte , Wendy Sherman , David Cohen , Carl Levin , FBI , Robert Mueller

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Omnibus lumbers forward despite potential political pitfalls

Alexander Bolton of The Hill newspaper calls Senate Majority Leader Reid's omnibus package as "only way to get these appropriations bills passed."

Tags: Alexander Bolton , John Boehner , Congress , House , Senate , budget , appropriations , Michael OConnell

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Reid to push omnibus, avoid another stopgap spending bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he will move a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill to avoid another continuing resolution.

Tags: Congress , budget , Senate , Barack Obama , deficit , continuing resolution , omnibus

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Defense hawks insist on sparing military from cuts

Tags: DoD , Mitch McConnell , Leon Panetta , John McCain , Howard McKeon , budget , supercommittee , House Armed Services Committee , John Boehner , G. William Hoagland

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Cyber bill on Senate's 2012 agenda

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says the issue will come up during the first work period of the new year.

Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , In Depth , Congress , Senate

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Will next Pearl Harbor occur in cyberspace?

Reid adds cybersecurity to 2012 Senate agenda. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee leaders applaud importance placed on cybersecurity.

Tags: Joe Lieberman , Leon Panetta , Susan Collins , Tom Carper , cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , Internet

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White House Numerology

Lurita Doan's "12 Days of Consider This"

Tags: Barack Obama , White House , stimulus , Afghanistan , Nancy Pelosi , federal debt , unemployment , terrorists , Al Qaeda , appropriations , MIT , DARPA , GDP

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