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	<title>Swampland &#187; Jay Newton-Small</title>
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		<title>It&#039;s election time, again!</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/07/its-election-time-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls for primaries to fill Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat. Bet on whomever can survive on the lowest turnout. No, seriously, having lived in Massachusetts for six bitter winters, I can attest: ain't nobody gonna be lining up outside in the cold for any of these virtually unheard of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19186&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#039;s &quot;Pep Talk&quot;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/06/obamas-pep-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama journeyed to Capitol Hill for a rare Sunday visit as the Senate pushed through the weekend on health care reform. The president spent more than 40 minutes rallying the Senate Democratic caucus, underlining to them the importance of passing a bill not only to the economy, but to the 2010 elections and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19111&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Baucus&#039;s Legal Affairs</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/05/baucuss-legal-affairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus found himself the center of a scrum of reporters Saturday as the Senate worked through the weekend on health care reform, though not for the usual reasons. The topics did not include the public option, abortion, health care affordability or his hearings on global warming legislation but, rather, his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19090&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#039;s Human Resources</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/03/obamas-human-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the White House jobs summit gets under way today, here's a story looking at congressional efforts for a jobs stimulus bill. Given the GOP tarnish on the last stimulus bill, members have pushed back hard at the suggestion that any future efforts might be labeled a stimulus. "I wouldn't characterize it as a second
stimulus," [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19043&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>Secret Service&#039;s Sullivan Takes the Hot Seat</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/03/secret-services-sullivan-takes-the-hot-seat/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/03/secret-services-sullivan-takes-the-hot-seat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Head bowed, U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan mumbled (or maybe his microphone is just too far away, but for those of us in the room he's incredibly hard to hear) his way through a morning of tough questions at a House Homeland Security Committee oversight hearing about how a social climbing couple managed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19037&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Desiree&#039;s (sure to be) Bad Day</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/02/desirees-sure-to-be-bad-day/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/02/desirees-sure-to-be-bad-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow morning at 10am on the third floor of the Cannon House Office building, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson will convene a hearing examining "the security breach at the White House State Dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The committee will look at deficiencies in security planning, actions taken to correct vulnerabilities and any management [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19020&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>117</slash:comments>
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		<title>Congress&#039;s Tepid Reaction to Obama&#039;s Afghanistan Plan</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/02/congresss-tepid-reaction-to-obamas-afghanistan-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/02/congresss-tepid-reaction-to-obamas-afghanistan-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=19015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congressional reaction to the 30,000-troop surge in Afganistan was as tepid as President Obama's West Point speech. As details of the plan leaked out throughout the day -- with more than 30 members traveling to the White House to be personally briefed -- few spoke with passion: no one – including Obama – mentioned human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19015&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>86</slash:comments>
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		<title>Casey, and the Next Chapter of His Family&#039;s Pro-Life Legacy</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/24/casey-and-the-next-chapter-of-his-family%e2%80%99s-pro-life-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/24/casey-and-the-next-chapter-of-his-family%e2%80%99s-pro-life-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=18774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey will tell you that he doesn't get many more calls from fundraisers or constituents about abortion than he does the public plan, death panels or immigration. "We're getting a lot of inquiries from lots of different groups on several differnet topics," he demurrs. "I don't think it's any different or intense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18774&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/23/reconciliation/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/23/reconciliation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=18771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For months few have mentioned it. But as the public option withers on the Senate vine, progressive groups are beginning to push Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to use reconciliation rather than pass a health care reform bill without a public option in it. I've heard a few whispers on the Hill that this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18771&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>Landrieu for $100 million</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/20/landrieu-for-100-million/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/20/landrieu-for-100-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Democratic leaders are wooing Senators Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln -- the last three hold outs who have not pledged to vote for the motion to proceed tomorrow night to start the debate on health care reform. Lincoln, an embattled Arkansas centrist, has been demanding 72 hours to read the bill -- [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18731&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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