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		<title>Democrats find rare unity in budget fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosalind S. Helderman  and Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before the government shut down, House Republicans crafted their final spending offer, including two health care provisions designed to scare red-state Senate Democrats facing re-election battles: one to delay the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s unpopular individual mandate and another removing subsidies for lawmakers and their staffs. But the Democrats didn&#8217;t budge, killing the proposal without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was rodeo mask act more than just a case of clowning around?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident earlier this month in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Barack Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged after him was neither racist nor disrespectful. It was a joke, they said, overblown by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giffords tries gentler touch on guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was day two of Gabrielle Giffords&#8217; whirlwind nationwide tour to revive the push for tougher gun laws. The former congresswoman&#8217;s husband, Mark Kelly, woke up early, placed his black case of firearms into the car trunk and raced across a vast stretch of Alaskan highway to practice target shooting. If the gun debate were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton super PAC attracts donors — as well as worries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker  and Matea Gold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign has a flashy website and official logo T-shirts and signs. Prominent Democrats have endorsed it and written &#036;25,000 checks. Its paid operatives and volunteers have set up shop in a suburban strip mall office that last housed the regional campaign headquarters for Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. All it needs now is a candidate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama keeps fluid grip on levels of power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker  and Peter Wallsten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists&#8217; sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who&#8217;s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama pins legacy hopes on 2014 House victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wilson  and Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama takes the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years.]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats no longer gun-shy on restrictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in more than a decade, Democratic presidential aspirants see a political advantage in championing far-reaching restrictions on guns. In Massachusetts on Thursday, Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled a sweeping set of proposed restrictions that would restrict access to high-powered ammunition, broaden background checks and restrict firearms purchases to one per month. Earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aimless Romney tends wounds in seclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The man who planned to be president wakes up each morning now without a plan. Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house in La Jolla, a moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego, at noisy construction workers fixing up his next-door neighbor&#8217;s home, sending regular updates on the renovation. He devours news [...]]]></description>
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