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Alabama paid company that botched ObamaCare website $47M for malfunctioning software

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The State of Alabama chose the same company who oversaw the rollout of HealthCare.gov to upgrade the state's financial management software,...

Aderholt only Alabama Republican to support $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill

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WASHINGTON -- A $1.1 trillion bill to fund the government through next September flew through the House (316-113) and Senate (65-33) on Friday, but...

Exasperated Rush Limbaugh: ‘Is Sessions the only conservative left in Congress?’

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Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh on Friday expressed exasperation that Congressional Republicans had pushed through a $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds a...

John McCain really hates Alabama, but his attempts to screw the state keep failing

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John McCain really, really hates the state of Alabama -- despises the Yellowhammer State with every fiber of his being. It's hard to say where...

Sessions says Rubio wrong on immigration attacks: ‘Cruz stood with me’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Nnt_obTRM&sns=em (Video above: Senator Jeff Sessions backs Senator Ted Cruz in his spat with Senator Rubio) WASHINGTON -- Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is lending his significant...

Federal delegation defends 4,000 Alabama ship-building jobs from Obama’s ‘fatal blow’

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WASHINGTON -- Defense News reported this week that the Alabama-made littoral combat ship (LCS) may have been dealt a "fatal blow" when Secretary of...

Alabama lawmaker demands Confederate flag be removed from state trooper uniforms

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Longtime State Representative Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery) is joining the NAACP in demanding the Confederate flag be removed from the uniforms of...

Brooks: GOP’s ‘debt-ridden’ $1.1 trillion spending bill ‘betrays America’s future’

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WASHIHNGTON -- Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) on Thursday said he will join Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions in opposing that massive spending...

Sessions: GOP-led Congress is betraying voters, funding Obama’s entire immigration agenda

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U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, issued the following statement warning that the omnibus...

A study says this is Alabama’s most conservative town (find out where your hometown ranks)

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Sumiton is Alabama's most conservative city, and one of the most conservative cities in the entire United States, according to a new analysis by...

United Nations goes on anti-Alabama tirade partially funded by American taxpayers

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a statement Friday blasting the State of Alabama -- and the United...

Alabama among the most heavily-armed states; research says that makes us safer

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Alabama is among the most heavily-armed states in America, according to a CBS News analysis of ATF gun registrations in accordance with the National...

Shocking ‘torture’ of Alabama child inspires crusade to make sure child abusers get life in prison

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Scott Hicks of Wetumpka, Alabama, traveled down to Bay County, Florida, in September after two failure-to-appear arrest warrants were issued against him on battery...

Sessions, Cruz push ‘American Jobs First Act,’ seek to stop influx of foreign workers

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) on Friday introduced the American Jobs First Act, which they believe would ease...

Shelby has quietly become the single biggest thorn in Obama’s side; here’s how

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The end of the year is typically a time when people put aside their differences and come together to celebrate the holidays. The same...

Palmer: EPA was never intended to have this much power; they must be stopped

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Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most powerful and most feared regulatory agencies in the country. What was originally intended to...

Shelby, Cruz team up on bill to allow Alabama, other states to refuse Syrian refugees

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WASHINGTON -- Alabama Senator Richard Shelby has signed on to co-sponsor a bill that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit governors...

Obama administration comes after Alabama with civil rights investigation

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday announced it is launching an investigation into whether civil rights violations occurred when...

Alabamians concerned as Afghan pilots go missing from nearby training base

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Alabamians expressed concerns Tuesday evening as news broke that two members of the Afghan Air Force have disappeared from a military base located roughly...

Shelby, Sessions push to pause immigration from ‘high risk’ countries

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WASHINGTON -- Alabama Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions were two of only 10 Republicans to vote in favor of pausing the issuance of...

Former NRA president goes off on gun-grabbing AL.com blogger

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By: Jim Porter What AL.com writer John Archibald is really saying in his December 4 column, "To hell with the NRA; this country has to...

Alabama lawmaker pushes Convention of States to pass balanced budget amendment

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A state senator is pushing to renew Alabama's call for a Convention of States to amend the U.S. Constitution. Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) has pre-filed...

Alabama congressmen: Obama has a gun control plan, but no strategy to defeat ISIS

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WASHINGTON -- Several Republican members of Alabama's congressional delegation released statements on Monday criticizing President Barack Obama for his latest Oval Office address, which...

Launch of new education group could signal seismic shift in Alabama politics’ power structure

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A coalition of education leaders on Friday announced the formation of Alabama Unites for Education (AUE), an advocacy group that appears poised to fill...
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