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	<title>The Hill Blog</title>
	<link>http://blog.thehill.com</link>
	<description>The place where members of Congress come to blog</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Democrats Running Scared on Issue of Production (Sen. Pete Domenici)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/democrats-running-scared-on-issue-of-production-sen-pete-domenici/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.M. GOP Sen. Pete Domenici</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Energy/Environment</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are trying to move Congress beyond the fear of American energy production.  The American people have made it clear that they do not share this fear.  Instead, they fear the idea of emptying their wallets to fill up their gas tanks.    
Republicans are working diligently to find solutions that will ease these fears, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drilling Critical to Energy Independence (Rep. Randy Kuhl)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/drilling-critical-to-engery-independence-rep-randy-kuhl/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/drilling-critical-to-engery-independence-rep-randy-kuhl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Y. GOP Rep. Randy Kuhl</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Energy/Environment</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I joined my Republican colleagues in introducing the American Energy Act, H.R. 6566. This bill is the “all-of-the-above” energy plan this country needs. It is a comprehensive bill that includes improving conservation and efficiency, drilling in America, increasing the supply of American-made energy, bringing online additional refineries, and developing all viable alternative or renewable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polygamist Communities Raise Major Law Enforcement Concerns (Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/polygamist-communities-raise-major-law-enforcement-concerns-sen-sheldon-whitehouse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/polygamist-communities-raise-major-law-enforcement-concerns-sen-sheldon-whitehouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.I. Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It clearly showed how complex this problem in polygamist communities is in terms of the breadth of the law enforcement concern that it raises and the coordination problems that arise from that, in terms of the complexity of enabling victims to escape and of the multiple services that they need to reengage with the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polygamist Colonies Are Trapping Women and Children (Sen. Ben Cardin)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/polygamist-colonies-are-trapping-women-and-children-sen-ben-cardin/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/polygamist-colonies-are-trapping-women-and-children-sen-ben-cardin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Dem. Sen. Ben Cardin</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What’s happened with these polygamist colonies is they’re trapping women and children. They’re victims. I think we need to go after those who permit these types of communities to exist and prosecute those who are responsible for violation of our criminal statutes – which are significant &#8212; and then help those who have been victimized.

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		<title>Media Bias Toward Obama Inexcusable</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/media-bias-toward-obama-inexcusable/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/media-bias-toward-obama-inexcusable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Research Center President Brent Bozell</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The liberal media’s now completely blatant bias is as evident as it is extraordinary.  Never before have we seen such an overt, over-the-top, seemingly coordinated effort by press in totality to back the play of a politician.  It is shameless.
That 49% of the American people now say they see the media’s Obama cheerleading leads me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum Wage Increases Today, Helping Millions of America&#8217;s Lowest-Paid Workers (Rep. George Miller)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/minimum-wage-increases-today-helping-millions-of-americas-lowest-paid-workers-rep-george-miller/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/minimum-wage-increases-today-helping-millions-of-americas-lowest-paid-workers-rep-george-miller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calif. Dem. Rep. George Miller</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Labor</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the national minimum wage increases by 70 cents, from $5.85 per hour to $6.55 per hour. I am proud to say that this is the second of three increases due to take effect under the Fair Minimum Wage Act, enacted by this Democratic Congress and signed into law on May 25, 2007.
The increase in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Bush Must Pressure China on Human Rights Before Olympics (Rep. Howard Berman)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/president-bush-must-pressure-china-on-human-rights-before-olympics-rep-howard-berman/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/president-bush-must-pressure-china-on-human-rights-before-olympics-rep-howard-berman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calif. Dem. Rep. Howard Berman</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Foreign Policy</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution (H. Res. 1370) calling China to account for its international behavior and its policies on human rights.
To provide a forum for discussion of these issues, the committee held a hearing yesterday on China’s behavior ahead the Olympic Games.  We heard from two of the country’s foremost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum Wage Increase is Far from Enough</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/minimum-wage-increase-is-far-from-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/minimum-wage-increase-is-far-from-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AFL-CIO President John Sweeney</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s increase in the minimum wage is a welcome boost to working people&#8217;s quickly-shrinking pocketbooks.  The second in a series of three increases in the federal minimum wage goes into effect today, boosting the minimum wage from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour and bringing some 13 million low-income Americans closer to gaining a foothold in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s European Omission: Our Unbreakable Bond of Belief (Rep. Thaddeus McCotter)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/obamas-european-omission-our-unbreakable-bond-of-belief-rep-thaddeus-mccotter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/obamas-european-omission-our-unbreakable-bond-of-belief-rep-thaddeus-mccotter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mich. GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Foreign Policy</category>

		<category>Presidential Campaign</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Accepting President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s challenge to &#8220;Let them come,&#8221; Senator Barack Obama will descend upon Berlin – a Phoenix of Freedom – to lecture the world on the state of the Transatlantic relationship. Such a speech is ironic, for Senator Obama has yet to show any understanding of the fundamental truths that have linked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay and Lesbian Soldiers Shouldn&#8217;t Have to Fear Being Outed (Rep. Carol Shea-Porter)</title>
		<link>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/gay-and-lesbian-soldiers-shouldnt-have-to-fear-being-outed-rep-carol-shea-porter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thehill.com/2008/07/24/gay-and-lesbian-soldiers-shouldnt-have-to-fear-being-outed-rep-carol-shea-porter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.H. Dem. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Politics</category>

		<category>Civil Rights</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that we change the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. What I hope Americans saw at yesterday’s hearing was that we have terrific soldiers, regardless of their sexual orientation.
We saw men and women today who talked about their great fear of being outed, and having to leave the job they love the most: the [...]]]></description>
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