Posts Tagged ‘Henry Clay’
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What The Stories Should Have Said
Posted on April 15, 2011
(Washington D.C.) In a stunning rebuke to President Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and 111 House Democrats voted to kill a budget compromise that funded the government for the...
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The Corrupt Bargain
Posted on March 16, 2010
In 1824, the House of Representatives awarded the Presidency to John Quincy Adams after Henry Clay, who was then the House Speaker, concluded that he wouldn’t be President and cut...
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