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    House votes $8B relief for highway trust fund (AP)
    AP - Congress on Thursday sent President Bush an $8 billion rescue package for the federal highway trust fund. The infusion comes as the trust fund, which relies on declining revenues from the federal gas tax, verges on going broke, threatening road and bridge projects in every state. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:07:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Bill Clinton predicts Obama will win 'handily' (AP)

    Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. meets with former President Bill Clinton in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.  (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Barack Obama and former President Clinton talked for two hours on Thursday, their first meeting in a White House race that had once bitterly divided them. Clinton predicted that Obama will win the presidency "pretty handily."


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    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:39:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Top Senate leader to push India deal (AP)
    AP - The Senate's top Democrat will press for passage this year of a U.S.-Indian civil nuclear cooperation accord, his spokesman said Thursday, boosting prospects for the landmark agreement to be ratified before President Bush leaves office. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:53:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    House to vote next week on offshore drilling (Reuters)

    The Petronius oil platform is seen from the air, located 100 miles (161 km) off the coast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico June 3, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi - /Reuters)Reuters - The House of Representatives could vote next week on energy legislation that would open nearly all of the U.S. coastline to offshore drilling while repealing some tax breaks for oil companies, Democratic leaders said on Thursday.


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    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:20:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    House votes to bolster SEC enforcement power (Reuters)
    Reuters - The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to strengthen the enforcement arm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:46:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Automakers see loan prospects rise (Reuters)
    Reuters - A bid by struggling automakers to win $25 billion in low interest government loans on Thursday received a boost in the House of Representatives and a hopeful sign from regulators who have begun drafting criteria for how such a program would work, officials said. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:09:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Ohio Dem Fudge Hits Sweet Spot With Nomination to Succeed Late Rep. Tubbs Jones (CQPolitics.com
    CQPolitics.com - Ohio Democrat Marcia L. Fudge, a suburban Cleveland mayor, earned a virtually certain trip to Congress Thursday night, as party officials in the state's 11th District tapped her for the Nov. 4 general election ballot slot vacated by the Aug. 20 death of five-term Democratic Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:55:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Ohio Dems select tab mayor to replace late Rep. (AP)

    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., sits with invited guests as she attends a memorial service honoring the late Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tubbs Jones died Aug. 20 of a brain hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm. Tubbs Jones backed Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Democratic leaders on Thursday selected the mayor of a suburban Cleveland town to replace the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones on the Nov. 4 ballot.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:38:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Obama says McCain lying over lipstick 'smear' (AFP)

    A supporter greets US Presidential Republican nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin at Van Dyke Park in Fairfax, Virginia on September 10. Barack Obama is seeking to refocus the ill-tempered White House campaign back onto voter anxieties as he castigated the AFP - Barack Obama sought Thursday to refocus the ill-tempered White House campaign back onto voter anxieties as he castigated the "lies and phony outrage" of his Republican foes over a farmyard taunt.


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    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:49:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Oil brokers sex scandal may affect drilling debate (AP)

    US Senator Bill Nelson, seen in May, has said earlier reports in 2007 and 2008 uncovered the MMS officials' AP - A scandal involving sex, drugs and — uh, offshore oil drilling.


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    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:07:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    House Panel Postpones Effort To Grill Miers, Cite Mukasey (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - The House Judiciary Committee postponed the scheduled Thursday appearance of former White House Counsel Harriet Miers regarding the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:38:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Scrappy Reid Grabs Every Opening to Jab at McCain (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - The presidential election is less than two months away, and it's clear that as far as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is concerned, the gloves have come off. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:49:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Top Senate Democrat to push US-India nuclear deal (AP)
    AP - The Senate's top Democrat will press for passage this year of a U.S.-Indian civil nuclear cooperation accord, his spokesman said Thursday, boosting prospects for the landmark agreement to be ratified before President Bush leaves office. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:55:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Democrats call for foreclosure freeze (AP)
    AP - Four Democratic senators urged the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Thursday to freeze foreclosures for 90 days on loans they hold. -- read full article
    Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:34:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
    Franken, Coleman look to Nov. after primary wins (AP)

    Comedian Al Franken speaks at a Oct. 16, 2004 news conference, in Des Moines, Iowa, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - With easy primary victories behind them, Sen. Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, wasted no time Wednesday working to firm up the messages that will carry them through the general election.


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    Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:42:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
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