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Oct 11, 2011 – Police arrested six protesters Tuesday who surged into a Senate office building in Washington, chanting slogans for about 15 minutes before officers intervened. "Six demonstrators were arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building by the U.S. Capitol Police and charged with unlawful conduct by demonstrating in a Capitol building,"...

Oct 11, 2011 – Hours before the Senate was expected to reject his $447 billion jobs bill, President Obama said Tuesday that lawmakers faced “a moment of truth” in dealing with the troubled U.S. economy. “Today is the day when every American will find out exactly where their senator stands on this jobs...

Oct 11, 2011 – Saying the U.S. Senate faces a "moment of truth" today, President Obama pressured lawmakers to pass his jobs plan during an appearance on the South Side. "Your senators are voting today on this jobs bill. This is gut-check time," Obama said. "Any senator who votes 'no' should have to...

Oct 11, 2011 – Congressional investigators probing the failed anti-gunrunning operation Fast and Furious are sending a new subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder -- seeking communications from about a dozen top Justice Department officials, including Holder; his chief of staff, Gary Grindler; and the head of the department's criminal division, Lanny Breuer, Fox...

Oct 11, 2011 – WASHINGTON — President Obama’s jobs bill meets its first big test on Tuesday as the Senate moves toward a vote on whether to take up the legislation, the centerpiece of Mr. Obama’s efforts to revive the economy. If that effort fails to achieve the necessary 60 votes, as many...

Oct 11, 2011 – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned. The event is set to take place in Hanover, N.H., just hours before the...

Oct 11, 2011 – As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread—with massive arrests Monday night in Boston—the tea party wants you to know that the progressive protests have nothing in common with its own grass-roots effort. First, the arrests: About 100 people were arrested by police Monday evening in Boston, according...

Oct 11, 2011 – New York (CNN) -- A group of union-backed organizations joined the loosely defined Occupy Wall Street movement again Tuesday, leaving behind the confines of New York's financial district for the posh neighborhoods that dot Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to multiple group representatives. Crowds also swelled in Lower Manhattan's...

Oct 11, 2011 – In the wake of a government panel’s advice last week that healthy men should no longer be routinely screened for prostate cancer, an independent team of experts sought to explain, in an assessment of the scientific evidence in a prominent medical journal, why a simple blood test...

Oct 11, 2011 – Leading Democratic figures, including party fund-raisers and a top ally of President Obama, are embracing the spread of the anti-Wall Street protests in a clear sign that members of the Democratic establishment see the movement as a way to align disenchanted Americans with their party....

Oct 11, 2011 – Though presidential candidate Mitt Romney shuns the term “Romney-care,” White House records show his top advisers helped the president draft the federal health care law, according to NBC News. President Obama cited the health care law that Romney enacted as governor of Massachusetts as an...

Oct 11, 2011 – The Obama campaign sent out a memo from senior strategist David Axelrod on Tuesday arguing that the American people support the president's American Jobs Act. The note, addressed to ‘Interested Parties’, cites reams of polling data in order to prove Americans support the bill, and that Congress's high disapproval rating...

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Oct 10, 2011 – President Barack Obama has sharpened his line of attack against Republicans during a West Coast swing and injected himself into the GOP presidential-nomination fight, setting aside his plans to stay out of the 2012 campaign until an opponent is selected. At a fund-raiser in Silicon Valley on Sunday, Mr....

Oct 10, 2011 – Fairfax County has a deficit problem. It has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in resident income yearly — $3.1 billion over five years, more than all but five other counties in the U.S. The loss isn’t a result of the outsourcing of jobs, and the money isn’t owed to...

Oct 10, 2011 – The supercommittee is struggling. After weeks of secret meetings, the 12-member deficit-cutting panel established under last summer’s budget and debt deal appears no closer to a breakthrough than when talks began last month. While the panel members themselves aren’t doing much talking, other lawmakers, aides and lobbyists closely...

Oct 10, 2011 – Herman Cain charged Sunday that groups sympathetic to President Obama were ginning up the Occupy Wall Street protests to take attention away from the administration’s policies. Cain, the GOP presidential candidate and former Godfather’s Pizza chief executive, also continued to call the growing protests “anti-American” and said demonstrators were...

Oct 10, 2011 – Herman Cain said Sunday that his national book tour — which some Republicans have argued could undermine his surging presidential campaign — will help his efforts, and that he plans to pick up the number of book-tour events. "When I can meet [voters] at a book-signing and say hello...

Oct 10, 2011 – “When you run for president, and you move into the top tier, you get this bull’s-eye on your back,” the GOP presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. In particular, Mr. Cain assailed critics of his plan to replace the tax code with...

Oct 10, 2011 – Rep. Michael Grimm, a Republican who represents Staten Island, is endorsing Mitt Romney in the GOP presidential primary—saying he's concluded former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is not entering the race and it's time for his party to rally around the candidate most likely to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012....

Oct 10, 2011 – GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who took the stage after Herman Cain at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, seemed to know he had a tough act to follow. He wasted little time tying himself to the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, who gave perhaps the best-received speech of the...