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		<title>Lawmakers urge Iran to release hikers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California’s U.S. Senators were among six who today announced a resolution urging the Iranian government to immediately, unconditionally release three UC Berkeley graduates who have been detained in Iran since last July. Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Sarah Shourd’s, Josh Fattal’s and Shane Bauer’s capture hiking in a poorly marked border area in Iraq’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skinner to GOPers: Follow Specter to our tent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you&#8217;ve gotta give Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, extra points for cheekiness: Today she sent to her Republican legislative colleagues an invitation to switch to the &#8220;Spectacular&#8221; Democratic Party, a la Arlen Specter. &#8220;Democrats will soon have 60 votes in the US Senate and be able to make many decisions without filibusters—but it will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The biggest news in politics today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., switching affiliation to the Democratic Party. Thoughts, anyone? UPDATE @ 1:06 P.M.: Here&#8217;s what U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has to say about it: “Senator Specter did the right thing for his state and our country, and I welcome him to the Democratic Party. “He has given Democrats a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How they voted on FISA telecom immunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate today passed a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 so that telecommunications companies which cooperated with the Bush Administration&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping will receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits. The final vote came after several amendments seeking to strip out or curtail that immunity were defeated. And how did the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Real Time&#8217; with Barbara Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s practically an East Bay edition of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; this week, as the sage of satire will be joined by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley&#8217;s Goldman School of Public Policy. Also on the show will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feinstein moves to limit robocalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., today introduced a bill to regulate robocalls, those rather annoying automated telephone calls which clog voters&#8217; voice mail bins before every election. Concerns have been raised about abuses of this technology, including calls being received late into the night; [...]]]></description>
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