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House Joint Memorial 4024: Requests that the United States Congress pass a bill that requires the replacement of the terms mental retardation and mentally retarded in the federal health, education, and labor policy statutes; the terms would be re...

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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...

topics: campaign, committee, congress, democrat, elected

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Anyone else receive an email today from Gov. Gregoire, asking you to support Danny Heck for Congress in the 3rd Congressional District? Huh. Seems a little early for the governor to be taking sides, considering the quality of the Democrats in the rac...

topics: congress, democrats

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Gov. Chris Gregoire endorses Denny Heck as Democratic candidate to succeed retiring 3rd District U.S. Rep. Brian Baird....

topics: candidate, congress

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With little time I don t write much anymore so here s a dump on some of the latest&I ll start local.Larry Haler&I don t know what has happened with our local Washington State Legislator Larry Haler (R-8th). Once upon a time we had a reasonable, per...

topics: committee, congress, democrat, democrats, elected

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Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., a rising figure among Congress' majority Democrats, gets important subcommittee chairmanship on House Armed Services Committee.n...

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The December suicide-bombing by an Al Qaeda double agent that killed former Fort Lewis green beret Dane Paresi and six others at a CIA office in Afghanistan has led to yet another congress... Continue reading Bombing Death of Dane...

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In 2008 a group of political reformers * placed a successful measure on the November ballot to make King County government non-partisan. Fourteen months later that reform has failed its first three tests filling two vacancies (Sims and Constan...

topics: attorney-general, campaign, candidate, city-council, committee

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Teabagger waves Tenther flag in support of Rep. Matt Shea. (Fuse)It s not so surprising to see a Republican introduce far-right-wing legislation, but it is a little stunning to see the entire Republican caucus embrace the fringe constitutional theori...

topics: congress, government, health-care, house-speaker, political

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A new survey shows that 57 percent of Americans don't like what they've heard about health reform bills being considered by Congress....