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        <title>Gerald E. Connolly</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fisker used political connections to get loan, U.S. lawmakers say]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-24 16:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; Top executives from failed hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. denied claims in Congress that the company had used political connections to secure $192 million in government loans to finance a flawed business plan. 

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			<title><![CDATA[Fire them? Federal employees, retirees owe $3.4 billion in taxes]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-01-26 16:38:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; Top executives from failed hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. denied claims in Congress that the company had used political connections to secure $192 million in government loans to finance a flawed business plan. 

The...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Area DEA agents honored by Congress]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A local DEA agent, blinded and nearly killed during a drug mission in Afghanistan, and the fellow agents who rescued him have been awarded the Congressional Badge of Bravery. 

In October 2011, Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Joseph Piersante of the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chopra, Herring win Rep. Connolly straw poll]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-18 08:11:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aneesh Chopra and state Sen. Mark Herring who are running for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor and attorney general respectively both came out on top in straw polls conducted Sunday at U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly's, D-Fairfax, annual St....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virginia, Maryland lawmakers spar over FBI move]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-13 19:19:39</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers from Virginia pressed a House of Representatives panel Wednesday to forgo a requirement that a potential new FBI headquarters be located close to the Capital Beltway, a provision they said gives Maryland an unfair advantage as the two states...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[House passes bill shielding shipbuilding from deep cuts]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A bill that shelters a string of shipbuilding programs from budget cuts breezed through the House Wednesday as a Republican majority was joined by more than 50 Democrats. 

The $982 billion bill would keep the government going through the end of the year,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Vargas announces opposition to efforts targeting federal employees' pay, co-sponsors freeze to Congress member pay]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-18 23:07:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Chula Vista, announced last week that he opposes House of Representatives Bill 273, targeting federal employees.

He said that in response, he is cosponsoring H.R. 636, introduced by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Virginia, which would...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Members of VA Congressional delegation unite against sequestration cuts]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-15 13:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nine of Virginia's 13 members of Congress sent a letter to President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday expressing their unified support of averting the arbitrary sequestration cuts...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Fiscal cliff' deal leaves federal employees with uncertainty]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bs-md-federal-worker-uncertainty-20130103,0,710670.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-01-04 13:05:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Congressional action to avert a "fiscal cliff" of higher taxes and across-the-board federal budget cuts means that government agencies will avoid many dreaded spending reductions &mdash; at least for now. 

But "now" is no more than two months. The future...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Boehner's do-nothing Congress]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-09 21:55:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In case you didn't know, Congress is in recess. They've given themselves a five-week break. Unanimously. This week they voted "without objection" not to come back to Washington until Sept. 10.

I don't blame you if you hadn't noticed. Because there's...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers push hard line on Iran, Syria]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-14 11:20:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Senior Democratic and Republican lawmakers issued a unified call Friday for tougher measures against Iran and Syria, warning that news of an alleged Iranian assassination plot in the United States is indicative of a political movement increasingly...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Armenian Genocide resolution may not face vote]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-12-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A flurry of legislative activity has brought an Armenian Genocide recognition resolution to the brink of a vote in Congress, but it may not be enough as lawmakers prepare to adjourn for the year and Turkey again lobbies strongly to quash the effort. 

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