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    Senate panel OKs homeowner rescue (AP)
    AP - Profits from government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, instead of taxpayers, would back up a home loan rescue for up to 500,000 strapped borrowers under a plan approved by a key Senate committee Tuesday to pull the nation out of a housing crisis. -- read full article
    Tue, 20 May 2008 23:24:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Former US detainee testifies of abuse (AP)
    AP - A German-born Turkish citizen told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday of abuses he says he suffered while detained by the United States in Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 00:17:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Democrats offer compromise budget plan putting off decisions (AP)
    AP - Democrats controlling Congress unveiled an election-year fiscal blueprint Tuesday that puts the federal budget mostly on autopilot, leaving the winner of November's presidential election with a set of enormous challenges. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 00:38:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind (AP)

    Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sit with his daughter Kara Kennedy in a family room at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Tuesday afternoon, May 20, 2008. Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A malignant glioma — the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — is the worst kind of brain cancer. Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year. Survival statistics are grim — few live three years and for the worst subtype, half die within a year.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 01:13:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Kentucky Democrats Pick Wealthy Businessman to Challenge McConnell (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Kentucky Democrats on Tuesday nominated Bruce Lunsford, a wealthy founder of a nursing home chain, to oppose Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in November. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 01:40:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Senate loads up war funding bill with other things (AP)
    AP - President Bush's request to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan until his successor can take office hit a rocky patch in the Senate Tuesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 02:41:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Senate panel passes housing rescue plan (Reuters)

    Construction workers are seen at a townhouse complex for sale from the low $200,000s in a Denver, Colorado suburb May 16, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved legislation on Tuesday that could save a half million homeowners from foreclosure and help stabilize the nation's rattled housing market.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 02:54:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Reaction to news of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's brain tumor (AP)

    Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, walks with Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., left, and John Kerry, D-Mass., to a news conference, Tuesday, May 20, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington to talk about the health of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Reaction to the news that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has a malignant brain tumor:


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 03:29:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    A timeline of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's life (AP)

    Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., hugs his niece Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg as he leaves Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston,Wednesday morning, May 21 2008. Kennedy was diagnosed at the hospital with a malignant brain tumor. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)AP - A timeline of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's life:


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 03:49:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    An aging Senate contends with time and illness (AP)

    In this May 15, 2008 file photo Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., presides over the committee's hearing on markup of the 2008 supplemental appropriations bill, which included spending in Iraq, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Edward M. Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Arlen Specter, fighters and history-makers all. Their battles with age and illness are the hallmarks of the nation's oldest-ever Senate and reminders of the fragility of power. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - Edward M. Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Arlen Specter — fighters and history-makers all. Their battles with age and illness are the hallmarks of the nation's oldest-ever Senate and reminders of the fragility of power.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 07:09:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Obama says White House nod within reach (AFP)

    Republican presidential candidate John McCain speaks during a town hall meeting on May 20. The contours of a McCain-Obama general election took on clearer definition as the veteran Arizona senator returned to attacking his Democratic rival's relative inexperience in foreign policy.(AFP/Getty Images/Eric Thayer)AFP - Barack Obama's camp Wednesday celebrated a potent milestone on the road to the Democratic presidential nomination after sharing the spoils with Hillary Clinton in the two latest contests.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 13:12:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Democratic Party Favorite to Face Oregon's Smith in Senate Race (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Oregon's House Speaker Jeff Merkley narrowly defeated political activist Steve Novick early Wednesday for the chance to unseat moderate incumbent Gordon H. Smith, the only Republican holding statewide office in Oregon. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 10:05:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Ky., Ore. voters choose US Senate candidates (AP)

    U.S Senate candidate Jeff Merkley celebrates after winning the primary election against Steve Novick in Portland, Ore Tuesday May 20, 2008 At his side is wife Mary Sorteberg. (AP Photo/Steve Slocum)AP - With the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination secure, the speaker of the Oregon House is turning his attention to defeating the sole GOP senator on the West Coast this fall.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 10:37:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Oil executives defend size, profits before Senate (AP)
    AP - Senators told oil executives Wednesday that high oil prices cannot be explained by supply and demand and the oil industry's concentration — and OPEC price collusion — is contributing to the costs facing consumers. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 14:43:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    House takes up $50 billion in tax breaks, energy incentives (AP)
    AP - The House on Wednesday took up a wide-ranging tax bill including more than $50 billion in incentives to promote renewable energy sources and financial relief for millions of parents, teachers, homeowners and businesses. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 14:52:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
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