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    Obama unveils veteran Biden as VP pick (AFP)

    Delaware Senator Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Democratic presidential candidated Barack Obama Saturday unveiled Biden as his running mate for the White House, calling him an all-American leader as Biden lost no time in furiously baiting their Republican adversary John McCain.(AFP/Getty Images/Frank Polich)AFP - Barack Obama Saturday unveiled veteran Senate colleague Joseph Biden as his running mate for the White House, calling him an all-American leader as Biden lost no time in furiously baiting their Republican adversary John McCain.


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    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:46:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Calif. lawmaker's home woes may not cost her House (AP)
    AP - Like many voters in this port city and the gritty urban areas of Rep. Laura Richardson's political turf, Johnetta Walker is disenchanted with the lawmaker whose meteoric rise has been marked with personal financial failures. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:59:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Obama-Biden pairing not the first all-Senate team (AP)
    AP - To find the last time a presidential ticket consisted of two senators, you have to go all the way back to ... 2004. -- read full article
    Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:43:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Indictments to stand against DeLay associates (AP)
    AP - An appeals court has declined to throw out money-laundering indictments against two of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political operatives, who had claimed that state elections law used to charge them was too confusing to proceed. -- read full article
    Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:11:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Obama pounces on Iraq troop deal to slam McCain (AFP)

    Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama addresses a townhall meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia. Obama said Friday a tentative US-Iraqi deal to get American troops home by 2011 exposed his rival John McCain's war plan as mere AFP - White House hopeful Barack Obama said Friday a tentative US-Iraqi deal to get American troops home by 2011 exposed his rival John McCain's war plan as mere "bluster" and divorced from reality.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:31:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Bush aides would recommend veto on media shield (AP)
    AP - President Bush's top advisers would recommend he veto a Senate bill to protect reporters from having to reveal their sources, Attorney General Michael Mukasey and National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:42:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Senate GOP hurting for campaign money (AP)
    AP - Republican prospects in U.S. Senate races this November grew grimmer Friday, as the head of the party's campaign arm announced he must reduce its budget because GOP senators are raising too little money. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:05:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Missile defense backers now cite Russia threat (AP)
    AP - U.S. outrage over Russia's invasion of Georgia could prompt Congress to speed up plans for a missile defense system in eastern Europe. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:25:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Louisiana Republicans Bet on Ex-Democrat to Gain a Senate Seat (Bloomberg)
    Bloomberg - Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The best hope for Republicans in this year's Senate elections is a former Democrat with a familiar Democratic name: John Kennedy. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Battle against lawmakers' pet projects fades (AP)
    AP - Whatever happened to the Republican Party's war on pork? -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:19:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Iraq deal to reverberate through White House race (AFP)

    Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama addresses a townhall meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia. An emerging deal to get US troops out of Iraq by 2011 will reverberate through the White House race, shaping the endgame of the testy duel over the unpopular war between John McCain and Barack Obama.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - An emerging deal to get US troops out of Iraq by 2011 will reverberate through the White House race, shaping the endgame of the testy duel over the unpopular war between John McCain and Barack Obama.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:55:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    House colleague berates military pork king Murtha (AP)
    AP - Republican Rep. Terry Everett of Alabama unleashed an unusually harsh attack on a House colleague, calling decorated Vietnam War veteran John Murtha, D-Pa., a cut-and-run idiot. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:18:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

    Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles as he gets on the bus in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Obama says he's chosen his running mate, but won't say who ... Obama pounces on McCain for not knowing how many houses he and multimillionaire wife own ... Election panel rules McCain not bound by spending limits in primaries, doesn't rule on loan ... Conservative group places ad questioning Obama relationship to 60s radical ... Obama spends $55 million to McCain's $32 million in July ... McCain, Obama agree to three presidential debates


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:20:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Congress: Terror database upgrade failing (AP)
    AP - A congressional committee on Thursday asked for an investigation into a counterterrorism database software upgrade that it says is months behind schedule, millions over budget and would actually be less capable than the U.S. government terrorist tracking system it is meant to replace. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:13:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Battle against lawmakers' pet projects fades (AP)
    AP - Whatever happened to the Republican Party's war on pork? -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:13:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
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