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• Politics: Picking up the shards in a fragile

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• Md. lawmakers aim bipartisan fire at proposed earmark reform

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• Democrats Push Ahead on Finance Bill

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• Tempest in a tea party

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• GOP hopes town halls take health care off table

  Washington Examiner | In their own way, voters are trying to force President Obama and the Democratic leadership to execute their long-advertised "pivot" from health care to jobs ...