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WIBW Topeka - Mon Dec 7, 2:35 pm ET
Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Gilyeat drove to Topeka to have his name placed on the ballot for U.S. Congress.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 7:01 pm ET
The US House of Representatives Tuesday adopted a bill asking the US president to report to Congress on incitement to anti-American violence on television networks in the Middle East.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 12:44 pm ET
Job-creating legislation being crafted in the U.S. Congress could cost between $75 billion and $150 billion depending on what the components are, House of Representatives Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 6:38 pm ET
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an anti-abortion amendment to a health care reform bill, splitting the Democrats and complicating the chances of getting a 60-vote majority to pass the measure.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 2:22 pm ET
The United States and its international partners must "use all appropriate measures" to keep Yemen from becoming a "failed state," the US Senate said in a recently approved resolution.
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Thomasville Times-Enterprise - Thu Dec 3, 9:49 pm ET
THOMASVILLE — A Thomas County man who decided three years ago to seek the Second District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives announced his candidacy Thursday.
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Anderson Valley Post - Tue Dec 8, 11:22 am ET
Out-of-control borrowing is about to catch up with the federal government. According to a report last week in The New York Times, interest payments on the federal debt could exceed $700 billion annually in as little as 10 years - that's much more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the paper reported.
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KAUZ Wichita Falls - Thu Dec 3, 9:54 pm ET
Another Texoma resident is throwing his hat into the ring for a seat in the Texas State House of Representatives. Michael L. Smith announced his candadacy today for the District 69 position.
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Boston Globe - Mon Dec 7, 10:51 am ET
Democrats Coakley, Capuano, Khazei, Pagliuca By Globe Staff The four Democrats and the two GOP contenders for US Senate are fanning out across the state today in a final push before the primary on Tuesday. The candidates' schedules can...
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Star Beacon - Thu Dec 3, 9:13 am ET
The Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday approved an amendment introduced by State Rep. Deborah Newcomb, D-Conneaut, to extend the moratorium regarding household sewage treatment systems, from the Dec. 31 deadline to July 1, 2010.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 4 minutes ago
The House of Representatives passed a bill creating an independent commission to review 28 years and billions of dollars spent on drug-fighting programs in Latin America.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 3:52 pm ET
Job-creating legislation taking shape in the U.S. Congress could carry a price tag of $75 billion to $200 billion with much of that funded by leftover bank-bailout money, House Democrats said on Tuesday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 10:26 am ET
The US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee is prepared to subpoena a couple who showed up uninvited to a White House state dinner reception, a lawmaker said.
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Boston Globe - 1 hour 12 minutes ago
By Matt Viser and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff Martha Coakley, a no-nonsense lawyer who has worked more than two decades in law enforcement and rose to become Massachusetts attorney general, won the Democratic primary election tonight in the race to...
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Nasdaq - 31 minutes ago
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D., Nev.) announced late Tuesday that Senate Democrats had reached "broad agreement" on a new compromise for health-care overhaul language that is intended to unite liberals and centrists in his party.