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99 relations: Abortion, Abortion-rights movements, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, American Civil Liberties Union, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Board of selectmen, Bob Goodlatte, Brady Campaign, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Center for Responsive Politics, Chris Murphy, Christian Science, Citizens United v. FEC, CNN, Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus, Connecticut, Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2014, Connecticut House of Representatives, Connecticut Post, Connecticut's 4th congressional district, ConservAmerica, Conservatism in the United States, Darien, Connecticut, Defense of Marriage Act, Democratic Party (United States), Diane Farrell, Election, Factions in the Republican Party (United States), Federal Marriage Amendment, Federal Reserve System, Fiji, George H. W. Bush, GovTrack, Gun control, Hartford Courant, Hillary Clinton, HIV/AIDS, Hollingsworth v. Perry, Iraq, Iraq War, Jim Himes, Joe Lieberman, League of Conservation Voters, LGBT, Libertarian Party (United States), Linda McMahon, List of Governors of Connecticut, ..., List of United States Representatives from Connecticut, Marty Meehan, Mary Baker Eddy, Massachusetts, Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Administration, McConnell v. FEC, Moderate, Modern liberalism in the United States, MSNBC, Nancy Johnson, New England, New York University, Norwalk, Connecticut, On the Issues, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Peace Corps, Poker, Principia College, Republican In Name Only, Republican Main Street Partnership, Republican Majority for Choice, Republican Party (United States), Rob Simmons, Roll Call, Same-sex marriage in the United States, Scotland, September 11 attacks, Stamford, Connecticut, Stewart McKinney, Stewart McKinney (politician), Supreme Court of the United States, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tom DeLay, U.S. News & World Report, United States, United States Constitution, United States Department of the Treasury, United States House of Representatives, United States presidential election, 2016, United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2010, United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2012, Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, Weston, Connecticut, Westport, Connecticut, 1,000,000, 110th United States Congress, 111th United States Congress. Expand index (49 more) »
Abortion
Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.
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Abortion-rights movements
Abortion-rights movements, also referred to as pro-choice movements, advocate for legal access to induced abortion services.
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Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
During the war in Iraq that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold Act) is a United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, which regulates the financing of political campaigns.
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Board of selectmen
The board of selectmen is commonly the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States.
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Bob Goodlatte
Robert William Goodlatte (born September 22, 1952) is an American politician and attorney.
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Brady Campaign
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence are affiliated American nonprofit organizations that advocate for gun control and against gun violence.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Center for Responsive Politics
The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C., that tracks the effects of money and lobbying on elections and public policy.
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Chris Murphy
Christopher Scott Murphy (born August 3, 1973) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Connecticut since 2013.
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Christian Science
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.
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Citizens United v. FEC
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,, is a landmark U.S. constitutional law, campaign finance, and corporate law case dealing with regulation of political campaign spending by organizations.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
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Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus
The Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus (CWRC) is a large bi-partisan Congressional Member Organization in the U.S. House of Representatives formed to support the National Wildlife Refuge System through legislation, funding, and education.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2014
The 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
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Connecticut House of Representatives
The Connecticut House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Connecticut.
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Connecticut Post
The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Connecticut's 4th congressional district
Connecticut's 4th Congressional District is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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ConservAmerica
ConservAmerica, formerly known as Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), is a national organization of United States Republican Party voters formed in 1995.
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Conservatism in the United States
American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States that is characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values, moral absolutism, free markets and free trade, anti-communism, individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and a defense of Western culture from the perceived threats posed by socialism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.
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Darien, Connecticut
Darien is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 37 miles north of New York City.
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Defense of Marriage Act
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (and) was a United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Diane Farrell
Diane Catherine Farrell (born August 10, 1955) is an American politician who was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Connecticut's 4th congressional district in 2004 and 2006.
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Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
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Factions in the Republican Party (United States)
Like most major political parties within two-party systems, the Republican Party of the United States includes diversity on social policy and political economic ideology, being composed of several factions.
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Federal Marriage Amendment
The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) (also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would define marriage in the United States as a union of one man and one woman.
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Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
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George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
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GovTrack
GovTrack.us is a website developed by then-student Joshua Tauberer.
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Gun control
Gun control (or firearms regulation) is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians.
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Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is often recognized as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
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HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Hollingsworth v. Perry
Hollingsworth v. Perry refers to a series of United States federal court cases that legalized same-sex marriage in the State of California.
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Iraq
Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.
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Iraq War
The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.
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Jim Himes
James Andrew Himes (born July 5, 1966) is an American businessman and U.S. Representative for, serving since 2009.
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Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who was a United States Senator for Connecticut from 1989 to 2013.
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League of Conservation Voters
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is an American environmental advocacy group.
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LGBT
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
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Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party (LP) is a libertarian political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism and shrinking the size and scope of government.
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Linda McMahon
Linda Marie McMahon (née Edwards; born October 4, 1948) is an American professional wrestling magnate and government official serving as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration in the Trump Administration.
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List of Governors of Connecticut
The Governor of Connecticut is the elected head of the executive branch of Connecticut's state government, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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List of United States Representatives from Connecticut
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Connecticut.
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Marty Meehan
Martin Thomas "Marty" Meehan (born December 30, 1956) is an educator, a politician, and a lawyer.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) established the Church of Christ, Scientist, as a Christian denomination and worldwide movement of spiritual healers.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration (MBA or M.B.A.) is a master's degree in business administration (management).
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Master of Public Administration
The Master of Public Administration (M.P.Adm., M.P.A., or MPA) is a professional graduate degree in public administration, similar to the Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the issues of governance.
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McConnell v. FEC
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission,, is a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of most of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), often referred to as the McCain–Feingold Act.
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Moderate
Moderate is a general term for people who fall in the center category of the left–right political spectrum.
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Modern liberalism in the United States
Modern American liberalism is the dominant version of liberalism in the United States.
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MSNBC
MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events.
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Nancy Johnson
Nancy Lee Johnson (born January 5, 1935) is an American woman politician from the state of Connecticut.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a U.S city located in southwestern Connecticut, in southern Fairfield County, on the northern shore of Long Island Sound.
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On the Issues
On the Issues or OnTheIssues is an American non-partisan, non-profit organization providing information to voters about candidates, primarily via their web site.
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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 ((HTML); *, from the U.S. Government Printing Office (PDF) PBA Ban) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination of pregnancy called "partial-birth abortion," referred to in medical literature by as intact dilation and extraction.
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Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government.
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Poker
Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.
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Principia College
Principia College (commonly referred to as Principia or Prin) is a private liberal arts college in Elsah, Illinois, United States.
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Republican In Name Only
Republican In Name Only (RINO) is a pejorative term used by conservative members of the Republican Party of the United States to describe Republicans whose political views or actions they consider insufficiently conservative.
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Republican Main Street Partnership
The Republican Main Street Partnership is a group of centrist and moderately conservative members of the United States Republican Party within the United States Congress, similar to the Blue Dog Democrats.
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Republican Majority for Choice
The Republican Majority for Choice (RMC) was a Republican organization in the United States dedicated to preserving legal access to abortion.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Rob Simmons
Robert Ruhl "Rob" Simmons (born February 11, 1943) is an American politician and retired U.S. Army Colonel who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's second congressional district as a Republican.
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Roll Call
Roll Call is a newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C., United States, when the United States Congress is in session.
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Same-sex marriage in the United States
Same-sex marriage in the United States was initially established on a state-by-state basis, expanding from 1 state in 2004 to 36 states in 2015, when, on June 26, 2015, same-sex marriage was established in all 50 states as a result of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v. Hodges, in which it was held that the right of same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples, with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities, is guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Stewart McKinney
Stewart or Stuart McKinney may refer to.
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Stewart McKinney (politician)
Stewart Brett McKinney (January 30, 1931 – May 7, 1987) was an American politician who represented the Connecticut's 4th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1971 until his death from AIDS in Washington, D.C. in 1987.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Tom DeLay
Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8, 1947) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006.
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U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
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United States Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States presidential election, 2016
The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
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United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2010
The 2010 United States Senate election in Connecticut was a midterm election which took place on November 2, 2010 to decide a Class III Senator from the State of Connecticut to join the 112th United States Congress.
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United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2012
The 2012 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held on November 6, 2012, in conjunction with the 2012 U.S. presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.
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Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) is United States legislation regulating online gambling.
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Weston, Connecticut
Weston is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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Westport, Connecticut
Westport is an affluent town located in Connecticut, along Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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1,000,000
1,000,000 (one million), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001.
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110th United States Congress
The One Hundred Tenth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, between January 3, 2007, and January 3, 2009, during the last two years of the second term of President George W. Bush.
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111th United States Congress
The One Hundred Eleventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011.
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