House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) threatened Tuesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department did not provide certain documents in response to the committee’s subpoena.
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Forget the so-called liberal media. Right
now Newt Gingrich’s most ardent critics are conservative pundits and
columnists, many of whom have launched aggressive campaigns to discredit
him and trip up his run for the Republican nomination.

Pictured: Republican
presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accompanied
by his wife Callista disembarks from a airplane Friday, Jan. 27, 2012,
in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Newt Gingrich appealed to South Carolina
voters on primary Saturday to support him if they want to stop Mitt
Romney from winning the Republican presidential nomination.
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The U.S. House of Representatives will be greeted with bad news when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill tomorrow: Two new polls find record numbers of adults disapprove of the way Congress does its job.
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President Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday of his intent to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion, two weeks after he had postponed the request to give lawmakers more time to consider the action.

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Next up, South Carolina. And it’s shaping up to be a dogfight.

The Republican presidential race turns to this state Wednesday as Mitt Romney’s rivals set their sights on trying to tear down the GOP front-runner.
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President Barack Obama is highlighting
companies that have returned jobs to the U.S. and he says that’s one
more way of putting people back to work.
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As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation’s capital.

Barry, the former four-term District of Columbia mayor whose legacy will always be tainted by his 1990 arrest after being caught on video smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting operation, now plays the role of elder statesman on the D.C. Council, where he represents a poor, predominantly black ward.
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