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| Challenges to Sen. Landrieu, Rep. Jefferson Top Louisiana Election Lineup
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| CQPolitics.com - Democrats will augment their slender U.S. Senate majority in an election year in which CQ Politics rates nine seats held by Republicans among the 10 most vulnerable to takeover by the challenging party. But that raises the stakes in the one exception: conservative-leaning Louisiana, where two-term Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu is facing a competitive challenge. -- read full article |
| Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:47:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate passes mortgage rescue plan
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|  AP - A mortgage rescue to help hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and get more affordable, safer loans passed the Senate overwhelmingly Friday, but it faces a bumpy road amid continuing turmoil in the housing market.
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| Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:22:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House Democrats set to spend $35 million on TV ads
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| AP - House Democrats have reserved millions of dollars worth of television advertising in 31 congressional races in all corners of the country, according to documentation that provides an early roadmap of the party's drive to strengthen its majority in the fall elections. -- read full article |
| Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:36:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Congress mostly going through the motions for now
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| AP - Some fights of the 110th Congress have lost their oomph in the waning months before the November elections, with both parties content to run out the clock on messy matters like the war in Iraq, spending bills and various disputes with the White House. -- read full article |
| Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:57:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Today on the presidential campaign trail
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|  AP - McCain says he's better than Obama for women, especially those in small business ... Obama blames McCain in part on US dependence on foreign oil ... House Democrats reserve nearly $35 million worth of TV ads in hopes of gains in Nov. elections ... German govt. says Obama visit being worked out, quiet on possible Brandenburg Gate speech
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| Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:38:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| US-India nuke pact in jeopardy
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| AP - Even with India's last-minute revival of a languishing civil nuclear accord with the United States, it may be too late for an election-year Congress to ratify what has been one of President Bush's top foreign policy initiatives. -- read full article |
| Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:03:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House Democrats to push oil production bill
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| Reuters - Democrats in the U.S. House of
Representatives, seeking to counter Republican charges that
they are anti-drilling, will try to pass an energy package as
early as next week aimed at increasing domestic oil production. -- read full article |
| Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:03:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Rove ignores subpoena, refuses to testify on Hill
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|  AP - Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he influenced the prosecution of a former Democratic governor of Alabama.
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| Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:40:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House creates trail following march to Yorktown
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| AP - The 600-mile route taken by the armies of Gen. George Washington and his French partner in the climactic campaign of the Revolutionary War would become a national historic trail under legislation passed by the House Thursday. -- read full article |
| Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:02:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Democrats seek independent probe on Canadian
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| AP - Three Democratic lawmakers asked the Bush administration on Thursday to appoint an independent counsel to investigate whether U.S. officials sent a Canadian engineer to Syria because they believed he would be tortured. -- read full article |
| Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:29:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Bill would cut weatherization help
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| AP - A bipartisan group of senators from cold-weather states on Thursday criticized plans to cut the federal program helping low-income families make their homes more energy efficient. -- read full article |
| Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:32:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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