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David Lightman was the Hartford Courant's Washington Bureau Chief for 23 years before joining the McClatchy Washington Bureau in October. He has covered every presidential campaign since 1980, and earlier this year won the David Lynch award for outstanding regional reporting in Washington.
From 1971 to 1981 he worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun, where he covered the Maryland legislature, and, from 1978 to 1981, was the paper's chief Annapolis correspondent. He joined the Courant in 1981 as a reporter.
A Washington, D.C. native, he has also worked for the Hagerstown (Md.) Morning Herald and the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise.
The Senate Tuesday failed to advance President Barack Obama's nomination of a union lawyer to the National Labor Relations Board, even though 52 senators vote to shut down a GOP filibuster. But that wasn't enough in a Senate where 60 votes are required to cut off debate. » read more
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