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		<title>Ex-Lawmakers Can&#8217;t Resist the Urge to Run Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carrie McCullough Widener University Masters of Public Administration Student Congress’ approval rating is at one its lowest points in memory. This article compares the public&#8217;s opinion of Congress to that of their opinion of Lindsay Lohan; and with good measure. The public can only see deadlock, sequester, and bickering coming from the current Congress. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamericanpartnership.com&#038;blog=17785584&#038;post=865&#038;subd=theamericanpartnership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Stereotypes Are Sometimes Akin to Real Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Agnes Woebkenberg Widener University Masters of Public Administration Student Advise and Consent (1962) is an really interesting movie, although produced in 1960s its quite relevant to today&#8217;s public view of Congress.  The stereotypes of members of Congress and how things get done in Washington portrayed in the movie are the same ones we see [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamericanpartnership.com&#038;blog=17785584&#038;post=860&#038;subd=theamericanpartnership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PA&#8217;s Pension Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Walters Widener University Masters of Public Administration Student The Commonwealth of PA has a huge problem on its budgetary plate; a roughly 47-billion-dollar problem to be exact. This is the obligation from PA to its current and retired employees in the form of pension payments.  And according to PA’s Budget Secretary, Charles Zogby, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamericanpartnership.com&#038;blog=17785584&#038;post=857&#038;subd=theamericanpartnership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Break the Banks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jamar Phillips After the financial fiasco on Wall Street known among many as the Crisis of Credit, people are still worried about the moral hazard of the Too Big to Fail mentality in government. Many other people on Wall Street worry about growing support to break up huge banks to prevent having to bail [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamericanpartnership.com&#038;blog=17785584&#038;post=845&#038;subd=theamericanpartnership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Bomber to be Tried in Federal Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Greg Grossman Widener University Political Science Major The surviving brother of the Boston Marathon bombings is to be tried in Federal Court. Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the brother who attempted to shoot himself when cornered by police, is now in a federal medication detention center in central Massachusetts. He is charged with two counts of using [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamericanpartnership.com&#038;blog=17785584&#038;post=841&#038;subd=theamericanpartnership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote-a-Rama Part III: Wake Up, Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago the Senate held a “vote-a-rama” related  to amends to the federal budget. This is the third of a three part series of reactions to this event by Widener University students studying Congress this semester. by Andrea Stickley Widener University Political Science Major Ladies and gentlemen, Congress has now found a way to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamericanpartnership.com&#038;blog=17785584&#038;post=837&#038;subd=theamericanpartnership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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