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A Democrat's defection to the GOP: What does it really mean?

Dec. 27, 2009
Also, a bid to bring a little common sense (and cents) to the bureaucracy. President Obama recently signed a disaster declaration for the state of Alabama. But that involved damage from last month's Tropical Storm Ida and had nothing to do with last week's defection of a representative from his...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic