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Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin | The Fed Needs Governors Who Aren't Wall Street Insiders

Elizabeth Warren, Joe Manchin, The Wall Street Journal
Warren and Manchin write: "We joined the Senate Banking Committee to try to make the banking system work better for American families."
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Bernie Sanders Says Americans Rejected Two-Party System in Midterms
Ashley Killough, CNN
Killough reports: "Independent senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont argued Monday that the low voter turnout in the midterm elections reflected widespread negative opinions about both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party."
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Senate Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Bill in a Close Vote
Bill Chappell, National Public Radio
Chappell reports: "The controversial Keystone XL pipeline project to expand an oil pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico has failed the approval of Congress."
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Senate Republicans Block Landmark NSA Surveillance Reform Bill
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "Nearly 18 months after Edward Snowden's disclosures upended the secret world of US surveillance, the US Senate has rejected the most politically viable effort to rein in the National Security Agency in almost four decades."
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The New Republican Plan to Rig the 2016 Presidential Election
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser reports: "Last week, Michigan state Rep. Pete Lund (R) revealed a plan that would rig the Electoral College to ensure Republican victories in 2016 and beyond if it were enacted in a sufficient number of states."
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Source: Obama to Ease Immigration Rules on Millions of Undocumented
Richard Cowan, Reuters
Cowan reports: "U.S. President Barack Obama is poised to give relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or of permanent legal residents."
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A Shadow Government Controls

Interesting perspective from Mike Lofgren here:

A Shadow Government Controls

FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Haunted Democratic Senate

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Joe Manchin, the gun-totin', bill-shootin' centrist genius who represents the considerably poisoned state of West Virginia in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, had some notions he wanted to share with his constituents, once they're done boiling drinking water and fishing for three-headed trout in the rivers and streams of their business-friendly environment."
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Mike Lofgren | A Shadow Government Controls America

Mike Lofgren, Moyers & Company
Lofgren writes: "During the last five years, the news media has been flooded with pundits decrying the broken politics of Washington. The conventional wisdom has it that partisan gridlock and dysfunction have become the new normal."
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Jonathan Chait | How the GOP Sabotaged Marco Rubio, the Man Who Was Once Its Savior
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Chait writes: "Everything Rubio touches has turned to shit. The cumulative humiliations have transformed the former party savior into a figure himself in need of saving. How did it all go so badly?"
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The Hidden Demographic Shifts That Are Sinking the Republican Party
Ruy Teixeira, ThinkProgress
Teixeira reports: "Most people have gotten the sense that rising diversity is making life hard for the Republican Party; ditto for the rise of the notably progressive Millennial generation. But there's a lot more to American demographics than that..."
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Fracking Boom Leaves Texans Under a Toxic Cloud
Lisa Song, Jim Morris and David Hasemyer, Bloomberg
Song, Morris, and Hasemayer report: "Since 2008, more than 7,000 oil and gas wells have been sunk into the brittle, sedimentary rock. Another 5,500 have been approved by state regulators, making the Eagle Ford one of the most active drilling sites in America."
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UAW Demands Labor Board Review Volkswagen Plant Vote
Dominic Rushe, Guardian UK
Rushe writes: "Union officials filed an appeal on Friday against a vote that denied labour representation at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant, blaming a 'firestorm of interference' for the no vote."
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The Polar Vortex Is About to Hit for the Third Time
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "Remember that time when a giant pattern of Arctic air descended over the U.S. and Canada, freezing everything in its path? Remember when it came back? Yeah, that's all happening again."
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