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    Senate Republicans rebuke Bush on Iraq veterans (AFP)

    Sen. John Warner (R-VA) speaks while flanked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (L) D-NV, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2nd L) R-NE, Sen. Jim Webb (2nd R) D-VA and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Today the Senate approved the war spending bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AFP - Republicans in the US Senate on Thursday rebuked President George W. Bush and joined majority Democrats to pass a bill offering education benefits to Iraq and Afghan war veterans.


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    Thu, 22 May 2008 18:38:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senate panel to quiz proposed housing chief (Reuters)

    Construction workers are seen at a townhouse complex for sale from the low $200,000s in a Denver, Colorado suburb May 16, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled on Thursday to question President George W. Bush's nominee to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 19:06:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Upbeat Kennedy leaves Boston hospital (AFP)

    US Senator Edward Kennedy (C), D-MA, leaves Massachusetts General Hospital with his son US Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-RI, and wife Vicki in Boston, Massachusetts. Kennedy left hospital Wednesday giving a thumbs up to waiting supporters a day after doctors announced he had a malignant brain tumor.(AFP/Getty Images/Darren Mccollester)AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy left hospital Wednesday giving a thumbs up to waiting supporters a day after doctors announced he had a malignant brain tumor.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 19:49:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Without Kennedy, Senate quieter, emptier (Reuters)
    Reuters - Without its most powerful orator and liberal giant, the U.S. Senate was suddenly quieter and emptier on Wednesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 20:21:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Bill would require ships to burn cleaner fuel in US ports (AP)
    AP - Dangerous air emissions from giant cargo ships would be sharply reduced under legislation that passed a Senate committee Wednesday despite objections from Republicans. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 20:44:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    House, Senate debate Democratic budget plan (AP)
    AP - The Democratic-controlled Congress began debate Wednesday on a stand-pat, election-year fiscal blueprint that relies on automatic tax increases to claim a balanced budget while boosting spending on defense, education and many other programs. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 20:54:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senate proposal seeks $165B for war (AP)

    Budget Director Jim Nussle briefs reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. President Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill on Wednesday, calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices in the face of a near-certain override by Congress. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Bush's GOP allies in the Senate face election-season votes Thursday on both his long-pending war funding request and tens of billions of dollars backed by Democrats for veterans education and an assortment of domestic programs.


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    Thu, 22 May 2008 07:31:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    An aging Senate contends with time and illness (AP)

    In this May 15, 2008 file photo Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., presides over the committee's hearing on markup of the 2008 supplemental appropriations bill, which included spending in Iraq, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Edward M. Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Arlen Specter, fighters and history-makers all. Their battles with age and illness are the hallmarks of the nation's oldest-ever Senate and reminders of the fragility of power. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - Edward M. Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Arlen Specter — fighters and history-makers all. Their battles with age and illness are the hallmarks of the nation's oldest-ever Senate and reminders of the fragility of power.


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    Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    College prof no walkover for Franken in Minn. Senate run (AP)

    Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate talks with supporter Janet Kitui during the DFL District 5 Congressional Convention April 26, 2008 at Washburn High School in Minneapolis. Nelson-Pallmeyer, a college professor with a long history of political activism and liberal values, has often been compared to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - On the Senate campaign trail, Al Franken frequently invokes the name of his friend, the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, as a major inspiration.


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    Sun, 11 May 2008 17:00:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Lobbyist defends work in run for Senate (AP)

    In this April 29, 2008 file photo, former Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate during a rally in Topeka, Kan. After spending more than a decade in Washington making millions of dollars as a lawyer and lobbyist for one of the nation's most prestigious law firms, the former Democratic congressman from Topeka is jumping back into the political arena in a bid to unseat Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)AP - The revolving door between former members of Congress and lucrative lobbying firms usually leads one way. But Jim Slattery is trying to make a U-turn.


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    Mon, 12 May 2008 18:02:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senate renews flood insurance program (Reuters)
    Reuters - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to extend until 2013 a federal program that insures millions of homes against floods and to forgive $17 billion in debt the program built up during Hurricane Katrina. -- read full article
    Tue, 13 May 2008 17:27:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Top Democrat announces budget agreement (AP)
    AP - Democrats controlling Congress are leaving difficult decisions on automatic tax increases to the next president and the newly elected Congress under a freshly negotiated House-Senate blueprint for the upcoming budget year. -- read full article
    Tue, 13 May 2008 21:18:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    West Virginia, Nebraska Voters Pick Favorites in Congressional Primaries (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Nebraska Republican Mike Johanns, President Bush's former Agriculture Secretary, was overwhelmingly nominated in a primary election Tuesday for a Senate seat in the state he once governed. -- read full article
    Wed, 14 May 2008 04:32:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Republicans Say House Loss May Signal More Setbacks (Bloomberg)
    Bloomberg - May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Some House Republicans criticized the party's agenda and leadership in the wake of a third special election loss, and one former leader warned that they might lose 20 House seats and six in the Senate in the November elections. -- read full article
    Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senate panel OKs homeowner rescue (AP)
    AP - Profits from government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, instead of taxpayers, would back up a home loan rescue for up to 500,000 strapped borrowers under a plan approved by a key Senate committee Tuesday to pull the nation out of a housing crisis. -- read full article
    Tue, 20 May 2008 23:24:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
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