State Politics
Webb Urges Vote On National Criminal Justice Commission Act - WHSV
Members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) from across the nation joined Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and leading Judiciary Committee members , Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Arlen Specter (D-PA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tuesday ...
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Senator Orrin Hatch launches new attacks on BCS - Deseret News
WASHINGTON — Spring football practice is beginning at many universities. And after a bit of an off-season, Sen. Orrin Hatch resumed attacks Tuesday on the Bowl Championship Series, too. Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., sent a letter to ...
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Update: Paper claims Massa ‘groped multiple male staffers’ - Raw Story
UPDATE: Former House Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) has been investigated over allegations he groped "multiple male staffers" in Congress, contradicting his earlier claims that the allegations sprang only from his use of "salty language," the Washington Post ...
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Senate Drops Funding For Summer Jobs Program And Enhanced Subsidies ... - Huffingtonpost.com
... some Democrats -- defeated a measure to provide $1.3 billion for summer jobs for young people this year and a $1.3 billion extension of enhanced subsidies for poor families with children. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who introduced the amendment ...
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The USOC: a good first week in Vancouver - Universal Sports
VANCOUVER -- It's the sort of thing that's off the radar now, as well it should be, a full week into the Winter Games, the spotlight appropriately on the first-rate performance of the U.S. team but -- the U.S. Olympic Committee is already having ...
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Web developer announces run against Matheson - Daily Herald
A Web developer has announced his candidacy for a U.S. House seat from Utah. Randall Hinton last week announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in Utah's second district. Hinton says he is running as the candidate for the ...
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Hatch seeking inside info on BCS - Salt Lake Tribune
Washington » Two high-ranking senators are demanding a peek inside the inner workings of college football's Bowl Championship Series, just the latest move in an ongoing campaign to force changes in the way the national champion is crowned. In a ...
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Bennett, Salazar spar over Utah oil development - Deseret News
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Bennett says that higher taxes proposed by the Obama administration on the oil and gas industry will chase them off federal lands in Utah. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says increases would simply give taxpayers long ...
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Lightbridge Comments on Text of Senate Bill S.3060: Thorium Energy ... - Stockhouse
A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to accelerate the use of thorium-based nuclear fuel in existing and future reactors was co-sponsored and formally introduced by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, March 3 ...
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Massa Drama: Democratic Congressman Muddles Rahm's Message - ABC News Blogs
Since everything on health care apparently hasn’t been said yet -- or, at least, hasn’t been said yet by Eric Massa… The drama gets a voice. And it’s salty. Massa, the soon-to-be-former Democratic congressman from upstate New York, gets ...
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Lightbridge Comments on Text of Senate Bill S.3060: Thorium Energy ... - MSN Money
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to accelerate the use of thorium-based nuclear fuel in existing and future reactors was co-sponsored and formally introduced by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah ...
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Web developer announces run for Congress against Matheson as ... - Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Web developer has announced his candidacy for a U.S. House seat from Utah. Randall Hinton last week announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in Utah's second district. Hinton says he is running as the ...
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Snotty: WaPo Calls Eric Massa 'An Unlikely Hero for the Right' - News Busters
When Rep. Eric Massa resigned Monday and conservative talk radio blazed over a radio interview Massa gave harshly attacking House Democratic leaders and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the Washington Post suggested Massa’s remarks weren ...
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CEU and Utah State merge into one - Emery County Progress
With the exception of one house member who said he had philosophical differences with junior colleges being absorbed by four year institutions, the Utah State House of Representatives voted to merge the College of Eastern Utah and Utah State ...
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Sen. Bennett promotes business in Rural Utah Part I - Emery County Progress
Senator Bob Bennett encouraged hundreds of small business owners and entrepreneurs in Utah to stay positive about the economy as he kicked off his ninth annual Rural Business Conference in Price where the focus was on job creation and economic growth ...
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Governor Herbert speaks to record crowd at Lincoln dinner - Emery County Progress
The Emery County Republicans welcomed special guest Gov. Gary Herbert to their Lincoln Day dinner. Gov. Herbert said all roads run through Emery County. His sister lives in Ferron and Emery County feels like home to him, too. "The Republican Party is ...
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Governor Herbert speaks to record crowd at Lincoln dinner - Emery County Progress
Jim Matheson including Morgan Philpot and Neil Walter. Local candidates include: Jeff Horrocks, Gerry Hatch and JR Nelson for commission; David Blackwell for county attorney; Greg Funk for county sheriff; Kris Bell for county assessor; Brenda Tuttle ...
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WAC hoops on a slippery slope over the past 10-plus years - KTVB
The WAC is going to be a one-bid conference again this season in the NCAA Tournament, even if Utah State gets upset in the WAC Tournament this week—by Boise State or anybody else. USU would be a long-shot as an at-large selection. The Aggies have ...
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Dick Morris: Obama's Chicago-style tactics - Orange County Register
All aspects of President Obama's Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies and bribes the House to pass his health care proposals despite the overwhelming public rejection with which they have been met. To some, he offers bribes ...
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The big lie about 'reconciliation' - Lowell Sun
Hatch worked on both with his dear friend, the late Edward M. Kennedy, after whom the service bill was named. It was Kennedy, you'll recall, who insisted that health care was "a fundamental right and not a privilege." That's why it's not just ...
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