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| Senate leaders report gifts, holdings
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|  AP - Senate leaders are doing well financially thanks to a combination of their $183,500 salary, assets and relatively low debt. Some colleagues, however, have run up large legal bills in connection with political scandals, according to 2007 disclosure reports released Friday.
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| Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:10:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Sens. Dodd, Conrad tied to special mortgage deals
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| AP - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, a leader of Congress' efforts to help homeowners ensnared in the subprime mortgage meltdown, reportedly got special treatment on his own mortgages from the CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp., a company whose practices he has called "abusive." -- read full article |
| Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:24:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Sens. Dodd, Conrad tied to special mortgage deals
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| AP - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd reportedly received two mortgages under a special Countrywide Financial Corp. program that gave preferential interest rates to "friends" of the company's chairman. -- read full article |
| Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:17:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate leaders report gifts, holdings
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| AP - Senate leaders are doing well financially thanks to a combination of their $183,500 salary, assets and relatively low debt. Some colleagues, however, have run up large legal bills in connection with political scandals, according to 2007 disclosure reports released Friday. -- read full article |
| Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:35:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Lawmaker threatens contempt vote for EPA chief
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| AP - A House committee chairman on Friday threatened to hold the head of the EPA and a White House budget official in contempt of Congress for not handing over documents about new smog requirements and a decision blocking California greenhouse gas limits. -- read full article |
| Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:57:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Veterans programs get boost from House panels
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| AP - Two House panels on Thursday approved remarkably generous spending bills for the upcoming budget year, awarding veterans programs with record increases and restoring proposed cuts to local law enforcement subsidies. -- read full article |
| Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:07:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House passes jobless benefit extension
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|  Reuters - Democrats pushed an election-year
bill through the House of Representatives on Thursday to give
more help to unemployed people facing tough job prospects in a
stagnant U.S. economy.
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| Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:50:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House Republicans vow push on oil drilling
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| Reuters - Congressional Republicans vowed on
Thursday to make a major push for more U.S. oil and gas
drilling and in the process force Democrats to cast difficult
votes at a time of skyrocketing gasoline prices. -- read full article |
| Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:58:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House passes jobless benefits extension
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|  AP - The House on Thursday approved an extra three months of jobless benefits for all unemployed Americans, knowing the plan's chances are slight in the Senate and almost nonexistent at the White House.
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| Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:59:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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