We know that after they write their big checks in support of the party, Republicans love to party at a raunchy strip club in Hollywood called Voyeur. But if I was going to play voyeur, it would be as a fly on that proverbial wall, well within the offices of Republican National Committee headquarters this week to watch events as they unfolded into scandal when it became known that the RNC used donor funds to cover nearly $2,000 in...

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The Obama administration is using an opportunity to comment on new March employment figures to shine a light on the need for Congress to act to create more summer jobs for young workers. The Labor Department on Friday reported that the nation’s unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent in March, although employers added 162,000 jobs — the largest one-month employment gain in three years. “The job growth this month is an encouraging sign, but we still have more...

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The Obama administration finalized long-anticipated fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks Thursday. But this week it also was handed tools to begin setting standards for the first time for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation set final higher standards for fuel economy for cars and light trucks, the first time such standards have been set specifically to control the tailpipe emissions that contribute to global climate change. A panel of experts on...

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Saying “the devastated island nation has become a textbook example of the need to reform an outdated U.S. foreign assistance system,” a prominent anti-hunger organization put forward recommendations to make the most of the $1.15 billion the United States committed Wednesday to rebuild Haiti which sound similar themes as expressed by the top U.S. diplomat. The Obama administration committed to that funding level during of a high-level donors’ conference of more than 100 countries and international development organizations to...

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