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		<title>GOP shows historic amnesia on spending cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the budget, Republicans need to address past mistakes and specify which programs they&#8217;d cut. Read more &#8211; http://bit.ly/9HaNjA]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/08/gop-shows-historic-amnesia-on-spending-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depression?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like the Republicans in Congress have decided that sabotaging economic recovery and employment growth is their best tactic for electoral gains in the November elections. Indications of this plan have been around since the Democratic victories in 2008. It seems that all doubt about facilitating the economic downturn as a path to political [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/08/is-the-republican-victory-plan-another-great-depression/</link>
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		<title>How My Republican Party Destroyed the American Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The nation’s public debt — if honestly reckoned to include municipal bonds and the $7 trillion of new deficits baked into the cake through 2015 — will soon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/08/how-my-republican-party-destroyed-the-american-economy/</link>
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		<title>The Fight Over Education in Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress is unlikely to take up its school financing bill, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, until next year. But teachers unions and other forces of the status quo are already trying to subvert the measure by discrediting President Obama’s signature education initiative, the Race to the Top, which requires the states to make reforms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/07/the-fight-over-education-in-washington/</link>
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		<title>Commonwealth Fund analysis highlights benefits for women in health-care overhaul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The law Congress adopted this spring to reshape the nation&#8217;s health-care system will be especially beneficial to women, because they traditionally have relied on health care more than men, faced more insurance problems and had greater difficulty paying medical bills, according to a new analysis. Read more &#8211; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/30/AR2010073000026.html?wpisrc=nl_fed]]></description>
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		<title>Representative Anthony Weiner (D &#8211; NY) Rips Apart Republicans on 9/11Health Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/07/representative-anthony-weiner-d-ny-rips-apart-republicans-on-911health-bill/</link>
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		<title>Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a bill to aid small businesses with expanded loan programs and tax breaks, in a procedural blockade that underscored how fiercely determined the party’s leaders are to deny Democrats any further legislative accomplishments ahead of November’s midterm elections. Read more &#8211; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/us/politics/30cong.html?_r=1&#38;th&#38;emc=th]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/07/republicans-block-bill-to-aid-small-business/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court fallout: Coal industry to go after Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several major coal companies hope to use newly loosened campaign-finance laws to pool their money and defeat Democratic congressional candidates they consider &#8220;anti-coal,&#8221; including U.S. Senate nominee Jack Conway and U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler in Kentucky. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/27/98240/supreme-court-fallout-coal-industry.html#none#ixzz0v1vJRLKC]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/07/supreme-court-fallout-coal-industry-to-go-after-democrats/</link>
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		<title>Senate Republicans Block Campaign Ad Disclosure Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans beat back Democratic attempts Tuesday to pass a bill that would impose stringent disclosure requirements on corporations, unions and other independent groups that finance ads for political campaigns. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/27/98221/senate-republicans-block-campaign.html#ixzz0uynUwfFY]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alexanderdemocrats.org/2010/07/senate-republicans-block-campaign-ad-disclosure-bill/</link>
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		<title>The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits From Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second-quarter earnings reports are coming in, and they&#8217;re making Wall Street smile. Corporate profits are up. And big American companies are sitting on a gigantic pile of money. So with all this money and profit, they&#8217;ll start hiring again, right? Wrong &#8211; for three reasons. Read more of this article by Robert Reich &#8211; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-great-decoupling-of-c_b_660048.html]]></description>
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