The Christian Science Monitor – As President Obama prepares to sign the second historic reform bill of his administration – health care in March, finance reform next week – Republicans are offering their own answers to why jobs have not recovered and enlisting business groups to help make their case.
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GOP’s jobs ideas: Keep Bush tax cuts, freeze regulations
(The Christian Science Monitor)
AP – A Republican lawmaker says documents show more senators and staff members than previously known received sweetheart mortgages from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., based on their perceived ability to help the company.
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GOP lawmaker: VIP loans given to Senate staff too
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AP – A week after igniting a firestorm over restaurant worker pay, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Emmer on Tuesday proposed eliminating Minnesota income taxes on some tipped wages.
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GOP candidate for Minn. governor: Don’t tax tips
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Up to 20 African countries mark 50 years of independence from Europe this year. That includes the Democratic Republic of Congo which marks its anniversary Wednesday. Since 1960, Congo, which is potentially one of the wealthiest countries on the continent, has lurched from rebellions and military coups to dictatorship and back-to-back civil wars.
Reuters – Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday blocked a Democratic effort to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed.
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House fails to pass unemployment aid extension
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AP – Florida Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is facing foreclosure on a Tallahassee home he co-owns with another Miami politician.
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Senate candidate Rubio faces foreclosure on home
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Republicans accuse Donald Berwick, President Obama’s choice to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, of supporting socialized medicine and rationed health care. But Democrats say the charges are just one more attempt by Republicans to rehash the health care debate.
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