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			<title><![CDATA[Sen. Boxer presses NRC head on San Onofre's future]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-23 14:36:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[During a renomination hearing before the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works committee Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) pressed U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane on the agency's plans for the San Onofre nuclear...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taxes, schmaxes: Congress wants you to know it loves Apple]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-fi-tn-taxes-congress-loves-apple-20130522,0,7559733.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-22 10:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[You could be forgiven for thinking that the big hearing before the U.S. Senate&rsquo;s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations this week was a chance for lawmakers to grill Apple about some of its controversial tax practices. And yes, there was some of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Conservative economists endorse immigration reform bill]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-23 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- More than 100 conservative economists will call on Congress to approve an immigration overhaul, highlighting the potential economic benefits. 

The letter by the American Action Forum, to be released Thursday, is the latest volley from...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren to pen new book -- a middle-class call to arms?]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-et-jc-elizabeth-warren-book-20130522,0,3150347.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-23 09:16:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A book can&rsquo;t rescue the American middle class. But a lot of politicians who say they want to rescue the American middle class are writing books about their travails and their vision &mdash; all timed to come out as the 2016 presidential election...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook says a line of Macs will be built in Texas]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-22 09:17:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook disclosed during a Senate hearing Tuesday that the tech giant will invest more than $100 million to build a factory in the Lone Star State, where it will assemble a line of Mac computers. 

&ldquo;The product will be...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama meets with young immigrants, encourages them to speak out]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-21 12:29:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Obama met Tuesday with young immigrants and others who expressed their fear that family members will be deported and their hope that Congress will pass new immigration laws to keep families intact. 

Obama urged the group to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple avoided billions in U.S. taxes on foreign income]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-20 14:04:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details 

WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Apple's tax dodge is so genius there should be an app for that]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-21 13:16:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If Apple execs are so adept at avoiding taxes, shouldn't they at least offer an app so the rest of us can get in on the deal? 

Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an appearance before the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,  testified today that...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Immigration reform bill heads to full Senate]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-21 17:02:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation&rsquo;s immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, but not before tilting the bill to the political right with amendments designed to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[White House officials knew of IRS audit findings weeks in advance]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-pn-obama-officials-advance-irs-audit-20130520,0,2926198.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-20 15:37:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; Top officials in the White House learned in April that an investigation of the IRS would probably end up showing that the agency targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, the White House spokesman conceded Monday, contrary to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Alaska governor launches bid to measure oil in Arctic refuge]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-20 14:46:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America's Arctic frontier, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea contains stunning populations of caribou, grizzly, musk oxen and other wildlife...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Issa tested by the spotlight]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-21 21:18:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...]]></description>
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