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    Summaries of Senate financial disclosure forms (AP)
    AP - Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Republican Whip. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:54:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Sens. Dodd, Conrad tied to special mortgage deals (AP)
    AP - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, a leader of Congress' efforts to help homeowners ensnared in the subprime mortgage meltdown, reportedly got special treatment on his own mortgages from the CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp., a company whose practices he has called "abusive." -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:24:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Sens. Dodd, Conrad tied to special mortgage deals (AP)
    AP - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd reportedly received two mortgages under a special Countrywide Financial Corp. program that gave preferential interest rates to "friends" of the company's chairman. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:17:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    US senator pledges antitrust review of Google-Yahoo deal (AFP)

    The Google website. The head of the US Senate's antitrust panel has pledged a AFP - The head of the US Senate's antitrust panel has pledged a "careful review" of the joint venture on online search advertising announced by Yahoo and Google.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:10:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Summaries of Senate financial disclosure forms (AP)
    AP - Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., senior Republican Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:05:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Senate leaders report gifts, holdings (AP)
    AP - Senate leaders are doing well financially thanks to a combination of their $183,500 salary, assets and relatively low debt. Some colleagues, however, have run up large legal bills in connection with political scandals, according to 2007 disclosure reports released Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:35:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Maine Senate race attracts many celebrity donors (AP)
    AP - Barbra Streisand, Mary Tyler Moore and Stephen King have a financial stake in Maine's high-profile U.S. Senate race. So does a founding member of the Grateful Dead and an actress who starred as a James Bond girl. -- read full article
    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:17:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Reid says primary calendar 'fundamentally flawed' (AP)
    AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told a group of Michigan Democrats that the current primary system is "fundamentally flawed" and he supports changing the 2012 primary calendar to reduce the influence of early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. -- read full article
    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:45 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 14:34:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Recount set in SC Democratic Senate primary (AP)

    U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to supporters at his election celebration after the South Carolina primary elections Tuesday, June 10, 2008, in Columbia, S.C. Graham's victory will test what South Carolinians think about his strong ties to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. and their work on a failed illegal immigration measure. Looking on is State Attorney Gen. Henry McMaster. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham easily won his Republican primary but won't know his November opponent until state officials finish a recount.


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    Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:56:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Roll Call: How they voted on oil tax bill (AP)
    AP - The 51-43 roll call by which the Senate blocked a bill that would have imposed a 25 percent tax on any "unreasonable" profits of the five largest U.S. oil companies. -- read full article
    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:31:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Money-losing Senate restaurants to go private (AP)

    In this Jan. 30, 2006 file photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., second from left, stops to visit with Sen. Mark Pryor, D- Ark., left, as he has lunch with a group called Women of the Storm, Louellen Berger and Frances Fayard, of New Orleans, in the Senate dining room on Capitol Hill in Washington. The famed bean soup served in Senate restaurants is made up of dried navy beans, smoked ham hocks, onions and a million-dollar tab for the taxpayer. That menu for financial distress could be about to change as the Senate, following the lead taken by the House more than 20 years ago, moves to privatize the restaurants, coffee shops and cafeterias located in the Capitol and Senate office buildings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - The famed bean soup served in Senate restaurants is made up of dried navy beans, smoked ham hocks, onions and a million-dollar tab for the taxpayer.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:40:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Obama ramps up search for a running mate (AP)

    Jim Johnson, left and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, wait for an elevator on Capitol Hill, Monday, June 9, 2008, in Washington, after a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Johnson and Holder, two members of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. vice presidential-vetting team met privately with top Democrats on the Hill on Monday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Barack Obama ramped up his search for a running mate on Monday, consulting with one congressional ally by phone and dispatching members of his vice presidential vetting team to the Capitol for meetings. Sen. Dick Durbin said he had spoken with Obama, his fellow Illinois senator.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:26:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Al Franken Gets Democratic Endorsement in Minnesota Senate Race (U.S. News & World Report)
    U.S. News & World Report - It's official: There's a big, fat U.S. Senate race underway in Minnesota, now that actor, comedian, and radio host Al Franken has been endorsed by state Democrats to take on incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. -- read full article
    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:32:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
    Franken wins endorsement for Senate in Minnesota (AP)

    Confetti falls around former comedian Al Franken after he accepted the Democratic endorsement for U.S. Senate Senate from Minnesota Saturday, June 7, 2008 at the party's state convention in Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that offended some and promising a tough challenge to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:32:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate
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