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		<title>Democrats&#8217; campaign-finance plan: Put the donors on camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kim Geiger and Clement Tan Senators led by Charles Schumer offer a proposal in which the chief executive of a corporation or group that is the primary financial sponsor of a political ad would have to claim responsibility for it by appearing on camera. GOP leader Mitch McConnell calls the idea ‘beyond suspicious.’ Reporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WaMu failed because of run on bank, former regulatory chief says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Puzzanghera and Clement Tan John Reich, who was director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, tells a Senate panel that Washington Mutual&#8217;s 2008 collapse resulted from a drop in public confidence, not a failure by his agency. Reporting from Washington — The former head of the chief banking regulatory agency that oversaw failed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=512</link>
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		<title>Battle brews over Obama nominee for 9th Circuit Court of Appeals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats reject a Republican bid to postpone a hearing on Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu. Reporting from Washington — Senate Democrats rejected on Tuesday a Republican demand that next week&#8217;s scheduled confirmation hearing on Goodwin Liu&#8217;s nomination to a federal appeals court be postponed, setting up an all-out partisan battle over the Berkeley law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=522</link>
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		<title>Big Immigration March in Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Clement Tan and Don Lee Reporting from Washington &#8212; Determined to push a major overhaul of the immigration system to the top of the nation&#8217;s political agenda, tens of thousands of people rallied Sunday on the National Mall, challenging Congress to fix laws that they say separate families and hurt the country&#8217;s economic and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=472</link>
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		<title>Campaign Finance Legislation Faces Tricky Issue of Foreign Corporations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from Washington &#8211; Proposed legislation to block foreign companies from contributing money to U.S. elections could end up affecting well-known companies such as Chrysler, Anheuser-Busch and Citgo, according to legal experts and company representatives. The legislation is a reaction from key House and Senate Democrats to a Supreme Court decision in January that struck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=457</link>
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		<title>Fierce Snowstorm Shuts Down Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from Washington &#8211; A ferocious blizzard, dubbed the &#8220;snowpocalypse&#8221; and &#8220;snowmageddon,&#8221; descended Friday on Washington, shutting federal offices early, closing schools and sending residents scurrying to stock up on supplies to carry them through the weekend. Forecasters predicted 30 inches or more of snow, which would easily break the area&#8217;s all-time snowfall record of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=436</link>
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		<title>Pilot Errors Blamed in Deadly N.Y. Crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from Washington &#8212; A series of pilot errors caused the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo, N.Y., last year, killing 50 people, but several common aviation industry practices may have led to the mistakes, the National Transportation Safety Board reported Tuesday. NTSB Chairwoman Deborah A.P. Hersman said the pilots&#8217; errors showed their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=414</link>
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		<title>Misreporting the Fort Hood Mass Shootings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times couldn&#8217;t confirm it, but reported a disparaging comment written by somebody of a similar name anyway. The Associated Press ran a full, related story &#8212; based on unconfirmed quotes &#8212; on the alleged Muslim perpetrator of Thursday&#8217;s unfortunate shooting incident at Fort Hood allegedly yelling &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; as he fired on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=371</link>
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		<title>The Art of Spinning an American Political Tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just how many historical political shifts can there be&#8230; in a space of a year? On an annual basis in America apparently, where politics is covered in the media like sports. The political spin on Election Night Tuesday began as soon as the news broke of individual victories. Spin not just by the political parties, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=382</link>
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		<title>Grappling with the Obama Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For people like me &#8212; young, college-educated and politically independent &#8220;millenials&#8221; &#8212; Barack Obama was and stilll remains the college-professor-we-wished-became-president, who actually became president of the United States. His &#8220;Yes, We Can&#8221; campaign tagline and exhortation for young ones to enter public service resonated strongly, but much to the surprise of those who know my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clementtan.com/?p=354</link>
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