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While a House panel convened a hearing Wednesday morning to hammer the free-spending GSA for its frequent and costly conferences, the GSA was holding yet another conference — this one at the sprawling Opryland convention center in Nashville, Tenn. 

 Justice Department slams report by  Republican lawmakers on Operation Fast and Furious.

The State Department’s top counterterrorism official, Daniel Benjamin, warned that the United States has “no illusions” that further progress against terrorism will be easy or quick, and certain Al Qaeda affiliates remain a troubling threat.

Former Texas state lawmaker Paul Sadler has beaten political unknown Grady Yarbrough in a Democratic runoff to capture a U.S. Senate nomination.

The quip came as Reid quoted an unnamed former business acquaintance of Romney’s as claiming the candidate had avoided taxes for a full decade — that presumably being the reason he wouldn’t want the returns to be made public.