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Dana T. Milbank (born 27 April 1968) is an American political reporter for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones.

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Washington Sketch: Seeing a setback in the race against breast cancer

She spent three decades keeping women abreast of the need for cancer detection with her pink ribbons and her Race for the Cure, and the percentage of U.S. women receiving mammograms nearly doubled, to two-thirds. But then last week, in one cruel and ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  National Press Club,  World Health Organization

Sweeteners for the South

On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Blanche Lincoln,  Mary Landrieu,  U.S. Republican Party,  Tennessee Williams,  Ron Wyden

An opaque transparency

There was Fran Townsend, White House homeland security adviser -- to President George W. Bush. There was Jack Keane, vice chief of staff of the Army -- during the Clinton and Bush administrations. And there was Juan Carlos Zarate, a deputy national ...

From DANA MILBANK, Dana Milbank: Washington Sketch (Wash. Post),  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  White House,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Keane, Inc.

Washington Sketch: In China, Obama leaves more questions than he takes

One is the leader of a great democracy. The other is the head of a repressive regime. But as the two men faced reporters in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Obama deferred to the wishes of President Hu Jintao: They would not take questions. In lieu ...

From DANA MILBANK, Dana Milbank: Washington Sketch (Wash. Post),  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Hu Jintao,  Bill Clinton,  Jiang Zemin

Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters

In their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency. For much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against Democratic filibusters of ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Jeff Sessions,  George W. Bush

Washington Sketch: No arrests for conservative Christians' anti-gay talk

Conservative Christian ministers from across the land, determined to test the bounds of a new law punishing anti-gay hate crimes, assembled outside the Justice Department on Monday to denounce the sin of homosexuality and see whether they would be ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  Ian Thomas

Obama's world record

It sounds tailor-made for a GOP ad: Unemployment hits 9.4 percent. President Obama flies to France. Joblessness reaches 9.7 percent. Obama jets off to Denmark. The rate of those out of work soars to 10.2 percent. Obama packs his bags for Japan, ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  CBS News,  White House

Washington Sketch: Globe may not be big enough for One World Government

It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon, who as U.N. secretary general is the de facto leader of what conspiracy theorists call the One World ...

From DANA MILBANK, Dana Milbank: Washington Sketch (Wash. Post),  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  John Kerry,  United Nations,  Ban Ki-moon,  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Washington Sketch: Gingrich is no longer conservative about showing his religion

It says much about the transformation of the Republican Party that even Newt Gingrich is now carrying the cross. When Gingrich came to power 15 years ago, his Contract With America was a document of fiscal conservatism that mentioned God only in passing. ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Newt Gingrich,  Bill Clinton,  Monica Lewinsky,  American Enterprise Institute

Washington Sketch: No shortage of Republican objections during House health-care debate

At long last House Democrats passed their health-care legislation Saturday night. The Republicans objected. Often. The debate was only a few minutes old when Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) rose to speak. "I ask unanimous consent -- " "I ...

From DANA MILBANK, The Washington Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

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