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			<title><![CDATA[Mikulski campaign account boosted by chairmanship]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-21 15:08:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In addition to having a hand on the nation's checkbook, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski is reaping a political reward from her new assignment as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee: a significant increase in campaign cash. 

The Maryland Democrat, who...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[O'Malley's federal PAC takes small end-of-year haul]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-31 21:03:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Talk of Gov. Martin O'Malley's presidential ambitions for 2016 is plentiful. 

But, at this early stage, donors are not. 

With three years to go before the first primaries and uncertainty about whether outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The billionaires' long game]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-26 09:53:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What's the biggest political lesson of 2012? Some say it's that money doesn't count all that much. Even though billionaires and big corporations poured huge amounts into the 2012 election, they lost big. They learned the lesson and won't try to buy...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[BP is not a criminal -- but its executives might be]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-22 03:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with the giant oil company BP, in connection with the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will 2012 be the year American democracy dies?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-08 03:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Who's buying our democracy? Wall Street financiers, the Koch brothers, and casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, among others. And they're doing much of it in secret.

It's a perfect storm -- the combination of three waves that are about to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The big lies behind the anti-Obama ads]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-06-13 03:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JP Morgan, BP, Walmart, and the multibillionaire Koch brothers have just launched a TV advertisement blasting President Obama for the national debt.

Actually, I don't know who's behind the ad because there's no way to know. And that's a big problem.

The...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Veteran Sen. Cardin defeats two challengers]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-06 19:52:37</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin won a second term Tuesday despite a spirited and well-funded campaign from one opponent and a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz from another.

A known commodity in Maryland politics for more than 40 years, Cardin, a Democrat,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eagle Archive: For people who want to make history, Election Day is your chance]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-01 14:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As the 2012 presidential campaign soldiers on toward its final days, no one seems at a loss for an opinion on the outcome.

Since 2010 in Maryland, we don't have to wait until the first Tuesday in November to vote. Early voting centers &mdash; in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Delaney, aided by Clinton, widened fundraising lead over Bartlett]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-26 08:51:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Democratic challenger John Delaney outraised longtime Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett by a six-to-one margin in the first half of October, and had more cash on hand going into the final weeks of the campaign, according to finance reports released...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Delaney continues to outpace Bartlett in fundraising]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-15 20:01:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Incumbent Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett -- in the fight of his political career to keep his seat in Maryland's 6th Congressional District -- raised less money over the past three months than he did in the previous quarter, campaign finance reports filed with...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maryland's wealthy dig deep to donate to super PACS]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are big political contributors, and then there are BIG contributors. Count Baltimore trial lawyer and Orioles owner Peter Angelos among the latter.

Angelos has donated at least $1.22 million, mostly to super PACs backing Democrats, according to the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bongino to report largest fundraising quarter to date]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-01 13:03:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Maryland GOP Senate candidate Daniel Bongino will report raising at least $650,000 for his campaign since July, a significantly larger haul than he has had in any quarter since announcing his candidacy last year.   

Bongino, who is...]]></description>
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