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    Businessmen looking for chance to unseat McConnell (AP)
    AP - When some prominent Democratic officeholders backed off from challenging Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, two businessmen stepped up for a crack at Kentucky's political kingpin. -- read full article
    Sun, 18 May 2008 17:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    US Senator Kennedy 'doing well' after seizure: colleague (AFP)

    Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, pictured in April 2008, is AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy is "doing pretty well" in hospital after suffering a seizure this weekend but must still undergo some tests, one of his Democratic colleagues said Sunday.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 18:07:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Pelosi ends Iraq visit after talks on vote, security: officials (AFP)

    In this hand out made available by the Prime Minister's office, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L) speaks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during her visit to Baghdad. Pelosi discussed Iraq's upcoming provincial elections and security issues during a flying visit to Baghdad, officials said Sunday.(AFP/IRAQI PM OFFICE-HO)AFP - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed Iraq's upcoming provincial elections and security issues during a flying visit to Baghdad, officials said on Sunday.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 20:04:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Kennedy awaiting test results at Boston hospital (AP)

    In this May 8, 2008, photo, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens during a hearing on breast cancer in Washington. Kennedy was hospitalized in Boston, Saturday, May 17, 2008  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy remained in the hospital Sunday, awaiting test results that could explain why the 76-year-old Democrat suffered a seizure a day earlier.


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    Mon, 19 May 2008 00:53:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Biographical information on Rep. Howard Berman (AP)
    AP - NAME — Howard Berman. -- read full article
    Mon, 19 May 2008 08:12:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    New Foreign Affairs chair shirks spotlight (AP)

    In this April 9, 2008 file photo, House Foreign Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., listens to Gen David Petraeus, and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the committee's hearing on the status of the war in Iraq. The new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman has carefully nurtured self-sufficiency over his 13 terms in Congress.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Rep. Howard Berman keeps a big Thermos behind his desk. That way, he never has to ask anyone to fetch coffee for him.


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    Mon, 19 May 2008 09:46:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Oregon race could spell end of Schumer streak (AP)

    In this Feb. 1, 2006 file photo, Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., listens to testimony before a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, , in Washington.  .(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)AP - As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 14:59:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Democrats call upon GOP to support new GI Bill (AP)
    AP - A Democratic congressman on Saturday urged Republicans to "step up to the plate" to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. -- read full article
    Sat, 17 May 2008 15:22:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Sen. Kennedy hospitalized, source tells AP (AP)

    Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and Caroline Kennedy, president, Kennedy Library Foundation, pass each other during a ceremony awarding the Profile in Courage Awards, foreground, Monday, May 12, 2008 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - Source says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts hospitalized with apparent stroke-like symptoms.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 15:52:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Pelosi in talks with Iraqi PM amid Al-Qaeda crackdown (AFP)

    An Iraqi soldier displays the different types of projectiles that were found in the village of Aoun. US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday promised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki renewed US support as his troops pressed a major crackdown on Al-Qaeda jihadists, officials said.(AFP/Muhammed Sawaf)AFP - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday promised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki renewed US support as his troops pressed a major crackdown on Al-Qaeda jihadists, officials said.


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    Sat, 17 May 2008 19:01:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Kennedy: liberal legend, able legislator (AP)
    AP - Tourists in the Capitol turn in awe when Edward M. Kennedy, hunched with age and back pains, ambles onto the Senate floor. -- read full article
    Sat, 17 May 2008 22:23:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Pelosi ends Iraq visit after talks on vote, security: officials (AFP)

    In this hand out made available by the Prime Minister's office, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L) speaks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during her visit to Baghdad. Pelosi discussed Iraq's upcoming provincial elections and security issues during a flying visit to Baghdad, officials said Sunday.(AFP/IRAQI PM OFFICE-HO)AFP - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed Iraq's upcoming provincial elections and security issues during a flying visit to Baghdad, officials said Sunday.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 05:59:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    US Senator Kennedy rushed to hospital after seizure (AFP)

    US Senator Edward Kennedy a Democratic Party icon and scion of a storied political dynasty, seen here in April 2008, was rushed to a hospital in Massachusetts Saturday after an apparent seizure, his office said.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy, a Democratic Party icon and scion of a powerful political dynasty, was in hospital Sunday undergoing a series of tests after suffering a seizure.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 07:16:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    US gun lobby weighs in on White House race (AFP)

    Niki Smith (L) checks out a Glock pistol while her husband Shane holds their son Gentry at the National Rifle Association of America's (NRA) annual meeting May 16, 2008 in Louisville, Kentucky.(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson)AFP - The powerful US gun lobby has painted the 2008 presidential race as a showdown over the right to bear arms, but the election could also prove to be a key test of its political firepower.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 07:33:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Sen. Kennedy recovering in hospital after seizure (AP)

    U.S. Rep. Patrick  Kennedy, D-R.I., left, is greeted by his cousin Caroline Kennedy as he arrives at and she leaves Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Saturday, May 17, 2008, where Patrick's father Sen. Edward M.  Kennedy, D-Mass., is hospitalized.  (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)AP - Out of immediate danger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remained hospitalized as doctors worked to determine what caused one of the nation's best-known senators to suffer a seizure in his Cape Cod home.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 10:42:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
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