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  • 60 votes not so super for Obama, Senate Democrats

    AP – Sun Jul 5, 12:02 am ET

    WASHINGTON - Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.

  • Group Sotomayor advised fought job tests

    AP – Sat Jul 4, 3:25 am ET

    WASHINGTON - A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.

  • Republicans To Probe Sotomayor's Views on Racial Bias

    CQPolitics.com – Fri Jul 3, 7:26 pm ET

    Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled anew Friday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be questioned about lawsuits charging racial bias during her tenure on the board of a Latino legal advocacy group.

  • Under Senate health care plan, either way you pay

    AP – Fri Jul 3, 7:25 am ET

    WASHINGTON - First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well.

  • SC senator defends ouster of Honduran president

    AP – Thu Jul 2, 9:48 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is defending the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and says the rule of law is working in Honduras.

  • Pa. senator guilty of $3.5M fraud seeks new trial

    AP – Thu Jul 2, 8:31 pm ET

    PHILADELPHIA - A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud is seeking a new trial on corruption charges, alleging the jury was tainted.

  • Bill Clinton to raise money for NY Dem challenger

    AP – Thu Jul 2, 6:01 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - In a slap at President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser for a New York congresswoman challenging White House-backed Sen. Kristen Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary.

  • Steelers owner Dan Rooney sworn as ambassador

    AP – Thu Jul 2, 1:26 pm ET

    PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney is making his first official trip as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, one day after being sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

  • Revised Senate Health Bill Includes Employer Mandate, Public Plan Option

    CQPolitics.com – Thu Jul 2, 12:33 pm ET

    Revised health overhaul legislation under development in the Senate would result in insurance coverage for 97 percent of Americans, leaders of a key committee said Thursday, though the total cost is still unknown.

  • Franken to give Democrats a boost on key issues

    AP – Thu Jul 2, 3:51 am ET

    WASHINGTON - The jokes about Minnesota's prolonged recount can finally stop, just in time for Democrats to secure a reliable vote from a former funny man.

  • GOP's Coleman could eye Minn. governor run next

    AP – Thu Jul 2, 3:21 am ET

    ST. PAUL, Minn. - The man who lost the 1998 Minnesota governor's race to pro wrestler Jesse Ventura now holds the distinction of losing his U.S. Senate seat to former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken.

  • GOP: 60 Votes Will Haunt Democrats at Ballot Box

    CQPolitics.com – Thu Jul 2, 12:02 am ET

    Republicans say Democrat Al Franken's victory in the long-contested Minnesota Senate race opens a new line of attack against Democrats for 2010.

  • Adviser: Gillibrand gets Maloney primary challenge

    AP – Wed Jul 1, 8:49 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney has decided to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary, setting the stage for a potentially costly and contentious fight that other congressional Democrats have avoided.

  • Rangel: Drug firms have been 'stealing'

    AP – Wed Jul 1, 8:39 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - One of the principal authors of health care legislation taking shape in the House accused drug companies and other medical providers Wednesday of stealing, and said they are now offering concessions in the hopes the bill that emerges will not demand too much of them.

  • 37 senators seek freedom for Vietnamese priest

    AP – Wed Jul 1, 8:14 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years.

  • Inouye's office inquired about bank's aid request

    AP – Wed Jul 1, 7:17 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Hardly a bank bailout hearing goes by in Congress without a lawmaker raising a question on behalf of constituent banks that have applied for federal assistance from the government's financial bailout fund.

  • Analysis: Franken doesn't guarantee Dems success

    AP – Wed Jul 1, 6:57 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Al Franken's victory in the marathon Minnesota Senate race gives Democrats control of 60 seats, the number needed to overcome any Republican filibuster aimed at blocking elements of President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda.

  • No Senate holiday, NY's gov says as GOP turns to him

    Reuters – Wed Jul 1, 6:57 pm ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York senators must stay in Albany over the U.S. Independence Day holiday for extraordinary sessions, according to a decision on Wednesday by the governor, trying again to get warring lawmakers to pick a leader and finally enact bills.

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