[Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:08:25 GMT]
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If health care passes, will the federal government directly subsidize abortion coverage? First Read reads the fine print.
Health care - Federal government of the United States - Abortion - Bart Stupak - United States
[Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:08:25 GMT]
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[Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:08:25 GMT]
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Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year cleared a key hurdle Tuesday that guarantees it will soon pass the Senate.
Senate - Unemployment - Unemployment benefits - United States Senate - United States
[Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:37:33 GMT]
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[Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:37:33 GMT]
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A New York congressman who resigned under an ethics cloud has been under investigation for allegedly groping multiple male aides, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:32:57 GMT]
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A moderate Democrat insisted Tuesday she remained opposed to pushing a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote, despite saying she wanted to see what was in the legislation.
[Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:11:15 GMT]
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On the other side of the obstacle course that President Barack Obama must clear to get his health care overhaul, a final trapdoor is lurking: the divisive politics of abortion.
[Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:19:36 GMT]
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The House ethics panel is reviewing a complaint against retiring New York Rep. Eric Massa by a male staffer who reportedly felt uncomfortable in a situation with Massa that had sexual overtones.
New York - United States - Eric Massa - Ethics - House
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:45:00 GMT]
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[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:45:00 GMT]
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A measure awarding a tax break to companies that hire unemployed workers passed in the House Thursday by a 217 to 201 margin, despite widespread sentiment that it won't create many jobs.
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:48:54 GMT]
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Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan was chosen Thursday as acting chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, a post that plays a major role in health care and billions of dollars in expiring tax cuts.
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:47:39 GMT]
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Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., admitted that he made a sexually-charged comment to an aide but implied that Democratic leaders used the investigation to pressure him to resign before the House holds a close vote on health care legislation that Massa has opposed.
[Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:21:49 GMT]
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Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, pleading with them to put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment and vote for his massive health care overhaul.
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:36:35 GMT]
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A House panel approves a measure recognizing the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians as genocide, despite pressure from the Obama administration and Turkey to drop the matter.
Ottoman Empire - Armenian Genocide - United States - Middle East - History
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:49:13 GMT]
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[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:49:13 GMT]
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Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt has decided not to run for re-election. The seven-term Democrat tells the Boston Globe that his decision had nothing to do with politics.
[Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:25:25 GMT]
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New York Rep. Charles Rangel temporarily stepped aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday as he struggled with mounting ethics woes that left his political future uncertain at best.
[Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:39:24 GMT]
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A freshman congressman from New York who cited health reasons in announcing his retirement Wednesday is facing allegations of misconduct, a top House Democrat confirmed.
New York - Democratic - United States - Eric Massa - Politics
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 04:17:12 GMT]
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[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 04:17:12 GMT]
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The Senate has rejected President Barack Obama's proposal to give a $250 bonus payment to people on Social Security.
Barack Obama - President of the United States - United States - Social Security - Senate
[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:27:23 GMT]
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[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:27:23 GMT]
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A GOP senator who had blocked passage of a stopgap budget measure on Tuesday accepted a deal to allow the 30-day package of benefits to pass.
[Wed, 3 Mar 2010 02:54:58 GMT]
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was open to four new Republican proposals on health legislation in a gesture of bipartisanship meant to jump-start his stalled overhaul drive.
[Wed, 3 Mar 2010 01:23:41 GMT]
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Senate negotiators close in on a deal on Wall Street regulations, proposing a new entity inside the Federal Reserve to oversee consumer financial products ranging from credit cards to mortgages.
Wall Street - Financial services - Credit card - Federal Reserve System - Senate
[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 02:37:51 GMT]
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[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 02:37:51 GMT]
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A little-known legislative procedure called ?reconciliation? is making a fierce comeback as congressional Democrats? best hope to end the Senate?s stalemate over health care reform.
[Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:35:18 GMT]
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Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter said Monday he's seeking the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, challenging the two-term incumbent as she faces the toughest fight of her political career.
[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:14:19 GMT]
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Former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr. says he's decided not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for U.S. Senate in New York's Democratic primary because he doesn't want to divide the party.
[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 03:02:22 GMT]
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Two thousand federal transportation workers were furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.
[Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:39:01 GMT]
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Marathon negotiations in the Senate on financial regulatory reform were set to continue on Sunday with a renewed focus on financial consumer protections after key Republicans rejected a compromise offer from the banking committee chairman.
United States Senate - Republican - United States - Senate - Bank
[Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:44:18 GMT]
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[Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:44:18 GMT]
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The future of President Obama?s health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats ? abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives.
[Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:57:15 GMT]
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Rep. Charles Rangel said Friday he won't step down as chairman of the powerful House tax-writing committee after being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean.
[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:29:50 GMT]
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"We know what happens if we do nothing: more and more people pay more," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday. "The president believes we still have to act."
[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:38:14 GMT]
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Senators want to know what happened to batches of e-mail messages by Bush administration lawyers who worked on opinions justifying waterboarding of terror suspects.
Waterboarding - Presidency of George W. Bush - United States - Dick Cheney - President
[Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:11:30 GMT]
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[Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:11:30 GMT]
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A Wisconsin senator is criticizing NBC for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it restrictive.
NBC - 2010 Winter Olympics - Sport - Events - Olympics
[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 03:06:51 GMT]
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[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 03:06:51 GMT]
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the health care plan that President Barack Obama is promoting should be the basis for Congress to move forward and at last pass a bill overhauling the system.
Barack Obama - Nancy Pelosi - Health care - Speaker - United States
[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:23:09 GMT]
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[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:23:09 GMT]
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Reckoning the health care summit will amount to political theater, Democrats shift focus to intraparty negotiations on fate of health-care reform.
[Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:48:15 GMT]
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