TRNS News Notes By Victoria Jones
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The Romney campaign announced Friday that they raised nearly $12.6 million in March, bringing their twelve-month total to $87 million in funds for the primary.
“Mitt Romney’s continued strong fundraising shows that voters across the country are tired of the failures from President Obama,” Finance Chair Spencer Zwick said in a statement. “We will continue the hard work to raise the necessary funds to defeat President Obama and change the direction of the country.”
Rubio argues that investigating officials who leak national security information is fair game, but media organizations should be off-limits.
An ex-prosecutor attempted to make ATF Agent John Dodson look like a hypocrite, according to the Justice Department’s IG.
Secretary of State John Kerry announced the release of his department’s 2012 report on International Religious Freedom today, calling the report a “clear-eyed, objective look at international religious freedom” that “when necessary, directly calls out our close friends as well as those countries we seek closer ties with.”
Instead of trying to score political points, Republicans could be working to help our economy, create jobs, or to fix our broken immigration system.
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Greece, NY v. Galloway (12-696), a case that challenges offering a prayer at governmental meetings.
By Labor Day the gimmicks run out. Congress and the President will harangue each other and play blame games. We’ll even hear some claim our colossal debt doesn’t matter anymore.
