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    Alabama Open House Seats Provide New Front in Wake of GOP Southern Setbacks (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - The political problems faced by the Republican Party have become national in nature, even in the conservative South, where the GOP's long ascendancy has recently been blunted. This trend can be seen in microcosm in the two open-seat House races this year in Alabama -- a state that bills itself as "The Heart of Dixie" -- where the candidate matchups for this fall's contest will be set in a primary to be held next Tuesday. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 03:08:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Dems in South Jersey Juggle House Nominee Scenarios (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Democratic primary voters in southern New Jersey's heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District are almost certain to nominate lawyer Camille Andrews next Tuesday to succeed her husband, longtime Rep. Robert E. Andrews, who stunned the local political community when he announced just before the April 7 filing deadline that he had entered the U.S. Senate primary to challenge four-term Democratic incumbent Frank R. Lautenberg. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 03:17:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Top 10 Congressional Candidate Debt (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Congressional candidates have racked up more than $130 million in debt this election cycle, although some of it has been carried over from prior years. Republican House and Senate candidates lead the way with $88 million, while the Democrats are carrying $42 million in IOUs. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 04:03:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Lieberman plays down chances of being on McCain ticket (AFP)

    US Republican presidential candidate John McCain (R) and Senator Joe Lieberman (L) hold a joint press conference with Defence Minister Ehud Barak (not seen) in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on March 19, 2008. Lieberman said Thursday he had no plan to be the running mate for Republican presidential hopeful John McCain as he had already AFP - US Senator Joe Lieberman said Thursday he had no plan to be the running mate for Republican presidential hopeful John McCain as he had already "been there and done that."


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 13:10:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Alabama: McCain 60% Obama 32% (Rasmussen Reports)
    Rasmussen Reports - There are no surprises in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Presidential race in Alabama. John McCain leads Barack Obama by twenty-eight percentage points, 60% to 32%. George W. Bush won the state by twenty-five points in Election 2004 and by fourteen points four years earlier. The state's Senate Race is also looking good for the GOP. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 13:20:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Africa food aid won't meet hunger-reduction goal (AP)
    AP - International food aid to Africa has declined and is unlikely to meet a goal set by the world's wealthiest countries of cutting hunger on the continent in half by 2015, congressional investigators say. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Craig says new book will cover arrest turmoil (AP)
    AP - Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is writing a book that will reflect on the turmoil after his arrest last year in an airport sex sting. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 00:19:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Idaho Lt. Gov. Is Nominee for Craig's Senate Seat (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - A quiet primary in Idaho on Tuesday clarified the field for the Senate race and the state's two House races for the November election. -- read full article
    Wed, 28 May 2008 11:35:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Senator reassured over Pakistani peace deals (Reuters)

    Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) speaks at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill March 31, 2006. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - A senior U.S. senator said on Wednesday that he had been reassured that whatever peace accords were reached with militants, Pakistan would not tolerate them making cross-border attacks on Western forces in Afghanistan.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 13:40:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    US senator opposes Pakistan militant talks (AFP)

    Democratic senator Russ Feingold, seen here in 2007, said that Pakistan should not negotiate with Taliban or Al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border and should limit peace talks to tribal elders.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - A top US Senator on Wednesday said that Pakistan should not negotiate with Taliban or Al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border and should limit peace talks to tribal elders.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 14:38:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Pueblo man runs for Congress in most Indian of districts (AP)
    AP - Benny Shendo Jr.'s bid for Congress isn't just a political race. He's literally running for office — touring northern New Mexico on foot and by bike as he seeks votes in a six-way Democratic primary. -- read full article
    Wed, 28 May 2008 16:55:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Blue Dogs building sway on the campaign trail (AP)

    In this May 12,2008 file photo, the-Mississippi Democratic Congressional candidate Travis Childers, right, and Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., visit the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Oxford, Miss. On a recent Saturday afternoon in small-town northern Mississippi, two little-known conservative Democratic congressmen went door-knocking and restaurant-hopping as if their own careers were on the line. They were campaigning Childers, who went on to win the GOP stronghold in a special election a few days later. 'Hell, I wouldn't do this for myself,' Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., who has served in the House for two decades, told Childers. That's only partly true. Tanner and 'Blue Dog' Democrats — conservatives 'choked blue' by their party's liberal base — are building their own operation to propel like-minded candidates to victory this fall. They also are quietly adding to their own influence within a party that is personified by liberals such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and increasingly Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - On a recent Saturday afternoon in small-town northern Mississippi, a little-known conservative Democratic congressman went door-knocking and restaurant-hopping as if his own career were at stake.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 17:49:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Senators want detailed credit card fee info (Reuters)
    Reuters - Several U.S. senators want Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, the dominant electronic payment companies, to break down detailed costs associated with transactions called interchange fees, according to letters obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 20:32:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Democrat questions US aid to Pakistan (AP)
    AP - The U.S. should rethink a multimillion-dollar program aimed at training and equipping a paramilitary force in Pakistan unless the country does more to keep terrorists from crossing the Afghan border, a Democratic senator said Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 21:26:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Kennedy has major cancer bill in Senate (AP)

    In this Sept. 15, 2005 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens intently to chief justice nominee John Roberts during his Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kennedy had begun work on a major cancer bill, an overhaul of the 1971 National Cancer Act, when his malignant brain tumor was diagnosed. Now his personal battle stands to put a dramatic stamp on a health care cause he first championed nearly 40 years ago, the fight against cancer in the United States. (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy's battle with a malignant brain tumor is likely to put a dramatic personal stamp on a health care cause he first championed nearly 40 years ago: The nation's war on cancer.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 02:35:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
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