Recent Votes

• Obama: Gay marriage 'doesn't weaken families, it strengthens families'

    NEW YORK, N.Y. – Speaking at an event for the first time since announcing his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama said his position was part of his campaign philosophy, rooted, he said, in “the basic idea that I want everybody treated fairly in this  …

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• Is America in fiscal austerity yet?

  The short-term importance of the budget bill which the House approved this week is that Democrats now have another vote which they can use against Republicans running in tough races this fall.

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• Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform

  LONDON -- A Roman Catholic Church with women cardinals? And priests who are not celibate? That is the controversial hope of a group of priests who claim to represent the majority of Irish Catholics. More than 1,000 lay church-goers and priests attended a meeting i …

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• Day after supporting gay marriage, back to fundraising for Obama

  SEATTLE, Wash. – He sent shock waves through the political world by announcing his support for same-sex marriage, but President Barack Obama made few references to his shift on the issue during two fundraisers here Thursday. In fact, the most memorable line from either spe …

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• Maya calendar workshop documents time beyond 2012

  Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and priests, with numerical markings on the wall that denote intervals of time well beyond the controversial cycle that runs out this De …

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