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A state Senate committee on Monday passed a measure that would suspend a citizen-approved initiative that requires a super majority vote in the Legislature to raise taxes....

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Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., will likely succeed the late John Murtha as chairman of the committee that controls defense spending....

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In a blow to House Republicans who had made him one of their favorite targets of scorn and derision, U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) died today at age 77 of complications from gallbladder surgery.Although he d earned wide renown amongst D.C. insiders fo...

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This weekend was the deadline for most bills in Olympia to be voted out of committee. Those that didn't make it died on the vine, at least for now. So, despite the tearful hearings, public... Continue reading Mute Swans and Leif E...

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A state Senate committee on Thursday heard testimony about a bill that would suspend a citizen-approved initiative that requires a super majority vote in the Legislature to raise taxes....

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in favor of dropping the armed forces 16-year-old don t ask, don t tell policy, and for the fir...

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A bill that passed out of a state Senate committee Monday would keep the City of Seattle from having its say on big transportation projects like replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct. On the same day that Seattle leaders touted a new, transit-oriented ap...

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Sarah Palin's political action committee has spent more than $63,000 to buy copies of her autobiography Going Rogue as books for fundraising donor fulfillment, and paid her publisher $20,000 to send a photographer and aide on her book tour....

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Joel Connelly says musclebound congressman Dave Reichert hasn t ruled out a run against incumbent U.S. Senator Patty Murray:Rumors in Washington, D.C., this week have Reichert being encouraged to run against Murray. They didn t come from me, he jok...

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Well, that s what the AP is reporting anyhow.(Gov. Christine) Gregoire s campaign committee sent out an e-mail Wednesday afternoon endorsing Democrat Denny Heck for Congress in southwest Washington s 3rd District.The e-mail encourages donations to He...

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