Topic - Nancy Pelosi

• San Francisco to honor Tony Bennett

  San Francisco is honoring legendary crooner Tony Bennett, whose famous song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," was recorded 50 years ago.

• Inside Politics

  Two senators say the campaign finance system is so broken that a constitutional amendment is needed to rein in runaway spending in elections.

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  Huge House majority backs insider trading ban

  The House overwhelmingly passed legislation banning insider-trading on Thursday, sending it to a conference where lawmakers will try to reconcile the bill with a more restrictive version passed by the Senate.

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  House GOP introduces its insider trading bill

  House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials, and have added provisions to bar lawmakers convicted of a felony from collecting their government pensions.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's lack of conscience

  During Thursday's national prayer breakfast, President Obama said, "I am my brother's keeper, and I am my sister's keeper." The problem is that he actually believes it.

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  WOLF: Panicked GOP insiders land in bizarro world

  The 2012 Republican primary race has passed well beyond the rabbit hole into some extra-dimensional bizarro world where up is down, black is white and the allies of the candidate who disavowed Reaganism would have us believe that the leader of the "second stage of the Reagan Revolution" is somehow insufficiently Reaganesque.

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  Congress trying to police itself on insider trading

  Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring that they disclose stock transactions within 30 days.

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  House Democrats say they'll put up stiffer defense of their record

  House Democratic leaders, while anxious to avoid being hit by President Obama's "do-nothing Congress" verbal jabs, say they won't shy away from his record — or their own — during this election year.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's crony capitalism

  President Obama said in his State of the Union address that one of the American values that must be reclaimed is "an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules." For three years, he and his political allies have been undermining this vision. They see government as a means of rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies. For the Obama circle, rules apply only to other people.

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  Democrats urged to tout accomplishments

  House Democratic leaders, while anxious to avoid being hit by President Obama's "do-nothing Congress" verbal jabs, say they won't shy away from his record or their own during this election year.

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  Giffords resigns House seat to focus on recovery

  In a House occasionally known for untoward exits, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood among cheering, crying colleagues to say goodbye Wednesday, over a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin.

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  TYRRELL: Our Bill Clinton

  How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism's Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit, but he has all the charm of barbed wire.

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  Gingrich makes pitch for Florida evangelical vote

  Seeking to boost his vote totals among a crucial Florida voting bloc, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took part in a mass conference call Wednesday involving large numbers of Florida evangelical and religious conservative voters.

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  Gingrich: Pelosi comments 'hysterical'

  Newt Gingrich, responding Wednesday to comments from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that he has no shot at winning the presidency, said his campaign makes his former House colleague and other Democrats "hysterical."

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  Washington, New Jersey governors diverge on gay-marriage bills

  Two more state legislatures are on the verge of approving same-sex marriage, but whether the bills become law depends on two very different governors.

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