The struggle to police foreign subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

To win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, military experts want U.S. companies to contract with local firms for a variety of tasks li

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"… he hands of enemy fighters.“What makes sense for a renovation project in Connecticut or Maryland can create some unique risks when the contractor is hiring sub …"

Some anti-spending candidates’ businesses have government contracts, tax breaks in their past

By Kimberly Leonard and Aaron Mehta

In his quest for West Virginia’s Senate seat, Republican John Raese frequently attacks “professional politicians’ out-of-control spending sp

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"… ed restructuring. Forty employees lost their jobs.State film tax creditsIn Connecticut, Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon has also faced criticism. She i …"

Fed loophole lets lenders keep using college logos to pitch student loans

By Cezary Podkul

Fed loophole lets lenders keep using college logos to pitch student loans

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"… ive practices in this market are outlawed,” Democrat Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said when the panel pass …"

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Analysis — Insurers’ ‘friends’ will influence public option debate in Conn.

By Wendell Potter

Health insurers in Connecticut will call on some of their longtime allies to help turn the public and state lawmakers against the idea of cr

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"… alth Care and Deceiving Americans. …"

"… rk in the Senate and hit paydirt when they convinced Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to come out against it. Lieberman had previously expressed support for t …"

"… option for affordable coverage. Meanwhile, though, state legislators in Connecticut passed a bill to create the framework for SustiNet. In an effort to quash …"

"… s, is potentially more helpful. In fact, the NFIB is already on the job in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant last week quoted an NFIB official as saying that & …"

Analysis — Fear and loathing over a public insurance option in Hartford

By Wendell Potter

Will a "public option" have a better chance in Hartford than in Washington? Not if the insurance companies have anything to say about it. ..

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"… private carriers. The setting has more than a bit of irony, since it was Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman whose opposition to the public option effectively assur …"

"… st step. While members of Congress were still debating reform in 2009, the Connecticut legislature approved a bill to establish the framework for a state-based p …"

"… public option. The program, called SustiNet, would create pools of people Connecticut already covers — including state workers and residents enrolled in M …"

"… e held on January 19th, 2011, to highlight the SustiNet bill raised by the Connecticut Legislature’s Public Health Committee.Since then, an 11-member Susti …"

Is Congress failing on Homeland Security oversight?

By Sarah Laskow

Tom Ridge, the Department of Homeland Security’s first secretary, testified before the 9/11 Commission on a May morning in 2004. Ridge spoke

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"… use newly minted Speaker Pelosi bypassed that procedure and designated the House Homeland Security Committee as the lead committee. Her action was interpreted as a way to unofficially …"

"… mmittees at meetings that could approach one hundred people.This year, the House Homeland Security Committee put aside its long-stated desire to pass an authorization bill for DHS as …"

"… fighting for more jurisdiction,” Lanier Avant, the staff director of the House Homeland Security Committee, explained recently. At the end of 2008, Representative Bennie Thompson, a …"

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The climate change lobby explosion

By Marianne Lavelle

Will thousands of lobbyists imperil action on global warming?

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"… ucked GOP leaders to work with then-Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut on a modest cap-and-trade plan. The measure was defeated, 55-43.By last ye …"

Broken elections, stolen votes

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Were the chaotic presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 an anomaly or a harbinger of things to come this November? Is democracy, as Karl Ro

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"… mer member of the Federal Election Commission, referred to a University of Connecticut study that found 8,558 of Connecticut’s deceased on voter rolls; more th …"

"… mission, referred to a University of Connecticut study that found 8,558 of Connecticut’s deceased on voter rolls; more than 300 were listed as having voted aft …"

"… oter rolls; more than 300 were listed as having voted after they had died. Connecticut’s secretary of state announced in a press conference that no fraud had o …"

"… hat no fraud had occurred, but that 5,000 names have been removed from the Connecticut rolls. Currently, Connecticut’s separate Elections Enforcement Commissio …"

USDA audit says E. coli testing in ground beef is flawed

By Aaron Mehta

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in charge of keeping the potentially lethal E. coli bacteria out of your food, has concluded its own tes

Obama cabinet officials visit swing districts in final weeks before Nov. 2 election

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Earlier this month in Orlando, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan unveiled a $1.56 million grant to install energy-effici

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"… ican incumbents. In one notable instance, a senior official travelled to a Connecticut swing district to announce “a single $23 government weather alert radio …"

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