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States brace for shutdowns

Chicago Tribune 6.30.09 1:00 AM | Time is running out for the legislatures in Arizona, California, Indiana, Mississippi and Pennsylvania to solve budget gaps. The last time Indiana missed its deadline for passing a budget and...
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Furloughs cut into state services

stateline.org 6.30.09 12:00 AM | With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.
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Paulson to testify on Bank of America

The Hill 6.29.09 12:06 PM | Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is set to testify before a House committee about the government’s role in encouraging a controversial deal...
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Conyers's wife resigns after conviction

The Hill 6.29.09 11:08 AM | Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), submitted her resignation from the Detroit City Council on Monday following...
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Boehner to tee off with Tiger Woods

The Hill 6.29.09 7:44 AM | John Boehner is taking a day off from fundraising this week to hit the links with Tiger Woods.
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Voter-registration system is long overdue for reform

Arizona Daily Star 6.29.09 12:00 AM | Too often, attention to problems with the nation's electoral process rises and falls with the coming and going of election seasons. Occasionally it happens that events force the issue back onto the...
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Harmonious week for the Roberts court

Los Angeles Times 6.29.09 3:00 AM | In two key cases, the normally fractured court comes together 8 to 1 to preserve the Voting Rights Act and oppose the strip-search of a 13-year-old at school. But the harmony is unlikely to last. ...
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Obama champions energy bill but not its tariffs

Chicago Tribune 6.29.09 1:00 AM | The president calls the measure 'an extraordinary first step' toward a halt to global warming but sounds a cautionary note about its provision to penalize countries that don't similarly crack down....
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