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The freshmen of the 112th Congress are not only trying to find the quickest routes to the committee rooms and cafeterias, but are also introducing their first bills.

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As the clock wound down on 2010, President Obama signed into law the tax deal he struck with Republicans. One provision is a one-year, 2-percentage-point reduction in the employee portion of the Social Security payroll tax. This measure is supposed to reduce unemployment by boosting spending, but a more effective approach would have cut the employer [...]

Leadership: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Social Security program is “fine.” How discouraging that someone who’ll ignore an impending catastrophe for political reasons retains such a lofty position. Interviewed Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Reid said he’s bothered that people “run to Social Security” when “we start talking about…[Read more]

Did our angry political culture help motivate Jared Lee Loughner on what authorities say was his mad shooting spree? Maybe, but a more troubling question for me is why nobody stopped this often incoherent, irrational young man on his long path to the rampage in Tucson. I don’t just mean the people who sold Loughner his [...]

Oh my. Why would a man engage in such undiplomatic language? My theory: After a week of incendiary and irresponsible rhetoric from the left over the Arizona shootings, his nerves were frayed by the “climate of hate” and he just snapped. Granted, I have zero proof, but it pleases my partisan sensibilities to believe it, and besides, [...]

Call it full moon rising — soon, there could be bare butts all over the boob tube. The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the $1.21 million worth of fines that the FCC levied against ABC after alleging that the network violated broadcast indecency standards for daring to show actress Charlotte Ross’ naked behind during [...]

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot at a constituent event in Tuscon, Ariz., today. This is the CQ profile which was written earlier this year.

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Medicine: The FDA has reversed its approval of a widely used cancer drug approved in Europe to treat breast cancer on the grounds it doesn’t provide a “sufficient” benefit. Let the terminally ill and their doctors decide. One of the blessings of blocking the omnibus spending bill was that it included $1 billion for the implementation [...]

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A New Jersey man whose seven-year prison sentence was commuted this week and is now seeking to get his felony gun charge conviction overturned blamed judicial “bullying” for his guilty verdict.  Brian Aitken told Fox News on Thursday that he is armed with an e-mail he claims he received earlier this week from a juror who told [...]