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| Senate attack on bailout lacks explicit threat
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|  Reuters - The leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee rejected the Bush administration's Wall Street bailout plan on Tuesday but left room for negotiation about the proposal that would have the federal government buy up to $700 billion in soured investments.
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| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:26:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Senate oks extending energy tax credits
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| Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved a package to extend $18 billion in tax credits for using renewable energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal and also provide incentives to cut energy consumption. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:21:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| When the Ticket Splits From Within
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| CQPolitics.com - Back in July, Barack Obama dropped by the Senate to cast a vote that was deeply unpopular with his party's base. The Illinois senator, who had just wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination, supported a rewrite of the nation's electronic surveillance rules that, in the eyes of its critics, gave the president more power than the 1978 foreign surveillance law ever intended him to have. -- read full article |
| Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:14:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Sen Reid says no "rubber stamp" for bailout
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| Reuters - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid said on Monday that congressional Democrats accept the
need to move quickly on legislation to stabilize the markets
and tackle the housing crisis, but a $700-billion Bush
administration bailout plan is just "a starting point." -- read full article |
| Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:13:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Big Early Bankroll Spurred August Payout in Dems' Senate Campaign
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| CQPolitics.com - August typically brings a summer slowdown for the national party committees, on the spending as well as the fundraising side. But that rule didn't apply this year to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), which flexed its bulky financial muscles last month in its ongoing efforts to make substantial gains among the 35 Senate elections that will be on Nov. 4 ballots. -- read full article |
| Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:41:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Franken helps craft McCain 'SNL' skit
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| Politico - Al Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" star now running in a high-profile Senate race in Minnesota, helped craft the opening sketch mocking John McCain that kicked off the NBC comedy show Saturday, according to two well-placed sources inside the network. -- read full article |
| Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Franken helps craft McCain 'SNL' skit
(Politico)
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| Politico - Al Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" star now running in a high-profile Senate race in Minnesota, helped craft the opening sketch mocking John McCain that is slated to kick off the NBC comedy show tonight, according to two well-placed sources inside the network. -- read full article |
| Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Stevens Gets OK for Legal Expense Fund
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| CQPolitics.com - The Senate Ethics Committee has given Sen. Ted Stevens permission to set up a legal expense fund, which will provide another source of revenue to pay for the Alaska Republican's upcoming federal corruption trial. -- read full article |
| Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:40:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Palin expects Biden to be a 'great debater'
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|  AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she expects a challenging debate next month when she faces a Democratic opponent who was elected to the Senate when she was 8 years old.
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| Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:32:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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