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Thursday, January 9, 2014

TMB: Max Baucus Advised Foundation Funded by U.S. Branches of Chinese-Owned Banks‏






By Daniel Wiser
Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.), President Barack Obama’s nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to China, has advised a foundation funded by the U.S. branches of Chinese state-owned banks and companies and a Chinese telecommunications giant accused of spying on Americans.
 
By Adam KredoThe White House on Wednesday denied reports that negotiations between Iran and Western nations had broken down after a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear research.
 
By Elizabeth HarringtonThe Justice Department (DOJ) and Louisiana filed separate proposals for information sharing on the state’s school voucher program Tuesday evening, as the Obama administration continues to seek federal approval of each scholarship awarded to a child fleeing a failing school.
 
By Adam KredoIranian oil exports hit a high in December, just one month after Western nations inked a nuclear pact with Iran that guaranteed up to $7 billion in economic sanctions relief.
 
By CJ CiaramellaA transparency advocate is suing the Central Intelligence Agency to obtain the agency’s files on Nelson Mandela, the late South African anti-Apartheid activist and Nobel Prize laureate.
 
By Sonny BunchI couldn’t help but feel a bit of solidarity with Frank Luntz while reading this profile. Luntz is really depressed about the state of political discourse in this country. And he doesn’t have any idea what to do about it.
 
Speaker John Boehner (R., OH) stated that House Republicans would continue to focus on creating jobs for Americans in 2014 during the GOP leaders press conference on Tuesday.


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