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| Alabama Open House Seats Provide New Front in Wake of GOP Southern Setbacks
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| 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 |
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| Dems in South Jersey Juggle House Nominee Scenarios
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| 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 |
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| Top 10 Congressional Candidate Debt
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| 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 |
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| Alabama: McCain 60% Obama 32%
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| 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 |
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| Senator reassured over Pakistani peace deals
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|  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 |
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| Blue Dogs building sway on the campaign trail
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|  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 |
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| Senators want detailed credit card fee info
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| 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 |
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