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| Reuters - Republican White House hopeful John McCain threw the campaign into turmoil on Wednesday by calling for a delay in the first presidential debate to try to forge a Wall Street rescue plan -- a surprise move promptly rejected by Democrat Barack Obama. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:35:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Reid: Bush ???absent??? on bailout
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| Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called out President Bush Wednesday over what the Nevada Democrat is characterizing as a lack of leadership in steering the proposed $700 billion government bailout of financial companies through Congress. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:44:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| House clears huge defense bill, sends it to Senate
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| AP - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the House passed a mammoth package for the Pentagon on Wednesday that contains a pay raise for troops, billions of dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and some political protection for lawmakers during a tense election season. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:15:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Reuters - Republican presidential nominee John McCain got an update on the Wall Street financial crisis from several economic experts on Wednesday and was cautious on whether he would vote for a $700 billion bailout. The Arizona senator said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, was wrong to say on Tuesday that McCain planned to vote for the hotly debated rescue plan. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:09:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| Reid: Bush ???absent??? on bailout
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| Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called out President Bush Wednesday over what the Nevada Democrat is characterizing as a lack of leadership in steering the proposed $700 billion government bailout of financial companies through Congress. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:44:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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| House clears huge defense bill, sends it to Senate
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| AP - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the House passed a mammoth package for the Pentagon on Wednesday that contains a pay raise for soldiers, billions of dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and some political protection for lawmakers during a tense election season. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Politics - U.S. Senate |
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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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