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    N.M., N.J. voters pick Senate nominees (AP)

    N.M. Republican Senate candidate Steve Pearce talks to the media with his wife Cynthia by his side as they await final election results. Albuquerque N.M. Tuesday June 3, 2008. In the race for the GOP nomination for Senate, Rep. Steve Pearce held a slim lead over Heather Wilson. Pearce had 51 percent in unofficial returns with 92 percent of precincts reporting. (AP Photo/Randy Siner)AP - Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce and Democrat U.S. Rep. Tom Udall won their parties' nominations for New Mexico's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat, while New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg strolled past primary opposition in his bid to join the winner on Capitol Hill.


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    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:18:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Quick Roundup of Tuesday's Primary Results (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Though dominated by the presidential primaries in Montana and South Dakota and Barack Obama's clinching of the Democratic presidential nomination, yesterday's vote could have been called the "Super Tuesday" of the 2008 congressional primary season. Seven states with 83 congressional districts held primary elections on Tuesday, and all but California also are hosting a Senate election this year. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:34:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senate approves stand-pat Democratic budget plan (AP)
    AP - The Senate Wednesday approved a $3.1 trillion election-year Democratic budget blueprint that leaves to the next president the task of sorting out a host of fiscal problems. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:27:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    3rd-oldest senator wins nomination for 5th term (AP)
    AP - Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the chamber's third-oldest member at 84, easily won nomination for a new term Tuesday over a challenger who sought to make an issue of his age. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:10:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Mass. state senator arrested after chase (AP)
    AP - A state senator was arrested Tuesday on charges he attempted to sexually touch a woman in a park, just weeks after prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to press charges when another woman claimed he assaulted her. -- read full article
    Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:49:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senator Kennedy undergoes 'successful' brain surgery (AFP)

    US Senator Edward Kennedy, seen here in April 2008, underwent AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy underwent "successful" brain cancer surgery Monday, his doctor said, as the political icon vowed a return to work and to campaigning for presidential hopeful Barack Obama.


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    Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Republicans Pull No Punches in New Mexico Senate Race (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Just two days before the primary in New Mexico, Rep. Steve Pearce is leading Rep. Heather A. Wilson in the battle for the Republican nomination to replace Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:47:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Kennedy's brain surgery 'successful': doctor (AFP)

    US Senator Edward Kennedy, seen here in April 2008, underwent AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy underwent "successful" surgery Monday on a malignant brain tumor and should have no lasting side-effects, his doctor said in a statement.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:28:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senator Kennedy undergoes 'successful' brain surgery (AFP)

    US Senator Edward Kennedy, seen here in April 2008, underwent AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy underwent "successful" brain cancer surgery here Monday, his doctor said, and will follow up with chemotherapy as the political icon vowed a return to work and to campaigning for presidential hopeful Barack Obama.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:45:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Cost drives Senate climate debate (AP)

    In this July 10, 2007 file photos, the coal-fired Plant Schereris in operation at Juliette, Ga. Plant Scherer has for several years been the nation's single largest source of carbon dioxide, which most scientists believe contributes to global warming. The economic cost of confronting global warming - from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline - is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. The Senate begins considering legislation Monday that for the first time would mandate a reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries, factories and transportation, in hopes of cutting heat-trapping pollution by two-thirds by mid-century. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)AP - From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:57:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Economic cost drives Senate climate debate (AP)

    In this May 21, 2008 file photo, customers re-fuel their vehicles at a Beverly Hills, Calif. gas station, The economic cost of confronting global warming - from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline - is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)AP - From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:21:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Former governor wins Va. GOP Senate nomination (AP)
    AP - Former Gov. Jim Gilmore was narrowly nominated Saturday by the Virginia Republican Convention to run for the seat of retiring Republican U.S. Sen. John Warner. -- read full article
    Sat, 31 May 2008 22:42:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Top 10 Congressional Candidate Debt (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Congressional candidates have racked up more than $130 million in debt this election cycle, although some of it has been carried over from prior years. Republican House and Senate candidates lead the way with $88 million, while the Democrats are carrying $42 million in IOUs. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 04:03:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    China, India should do more on Myanmar: US senator (AFP)

    US Senator Joseph Lieberman gives a press conference at the Shangrila-La hotel ahead of the 7th IISS Aisa Security Summit in Singapore. China and India need to do more to pressure Myanmar's military rulers to bring about democratic reforms in the country, Lieberman said Friday.(AFP/Roslan Rahman)AFP - China and India need to do more to pressure Myanmar's military rulers to bring about democratic reforms in the country, US Senator Joe Lieberman said Friday.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 14:29:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Clinton faces adjustment upon return to Senate (AP)

    In this Feb. 27, 2007, file photo Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., walls to a news conference in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. Clinton, who once ran for the presidency with the aura of inevitability, returns to the reality of being one of 100, because for the first time since being elected to the Senate in 2000, the former first lady is no longer the candidate with the best shot of capturing the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton, who ran for the presidency with the aura of inevitability, faces the reality of being one of 100.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:10:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
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