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Rushing the Court on Gay Rights

Posted March 29th, 2013 at 2:58 pm (UTC+0)
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Justices Caution Not So Fast It’s not often that a revolution winds up on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, but it seemed to happen this past week.  The nine justices heard two potentially significant cases on same sex marriage and while decorum was maintained inside the chamber, a lot of the action seemed […]

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Budget War Pause

Posted March 25th, 2013 at 8:35 pm (UTC+0)
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Bracing for a Summer Showdown Members of Congress are away for the next two weeks, but before they left town they approved a law that will keep the federal government funded through the end of September.  Passage of the funding measure avoided a government shutdown and includes the $85 billion worth of across-the-board spending cuts […]

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Republicans Study Autopsy Report

Posted March 19th, 2013 at 9:33 pm (UTC+0)
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Party May Need Heart Transplant Like all smart political parties, Republicans have been spending some time looking in the mirror after last November’s dispiriting election results.  In a report called the Growth and Opportunity Project, Republican leaders studied what went wrong last year and offer up some general ideas about improving the party’s electoral prospects […]

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Conservative Restart

Posted March 15th, 2013 at 9:05 pm (UTC+0)
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  Looking for the Next Reagan Thousands of election-weary conservatives gathered at a resort hotel outside Washington this week, trying to figure out what went wrong in last November’s election and how to fix it for the future. The Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, is a kind of melting pot for the conservative […]

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Washington’s Early Political Spring

Posted March 8th, 2013 at 9:12 pm (UTC+0)
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Will Changes in Tone Lead to Action? Like the warming breezes of an unexpected early spring, there was a subtle shift in Washington’s political landscape this week.  President Barack Obama took the unusual step of having dinner with a dozen Senate Republicans to open an informal dialogue on the budget issues that have crippled this […]

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Yet Another Budget Battle Looms

Posted March 5th, 2013 at 9:35 pm (UTC+0)
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Government Shutdown at Stake With the budget sequester spending cuts now slowly taking effect, the next big date on Washington’s calendar is March 27th.   That’s the day the current U.S. government funding bill expires and Congress will have to act to either renew the funding measure or reach agreement on an alternative. The big question […]

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Jim Malone

Jim Malone

After a stint in the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Jim joined VOA in 1983 as a reporter and anchor on English broadcasts to Africa.  He served as East Africa correspondent, then covered Congress in the early 1990’s.   Since 1995, Jim has served as VOA national correspondent responsible for coverage of U.S. politics, elections, the Supreme Court and Justice Department.  Jim has been involved in VOA’s election coverage since the 1984 presidential campaign and has co-anchored live VOA broadcasts of numerous national political conventions, candidate debates and election night coverage.

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