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  • Senator Dodd's Bipartisan Push on Financial Reform

    Senate Banking chairman Chris Dodd has reached across the aisle to the GOP to create bipartisan working groups to tackle the four hardest questions in financial regulatory reform

  • Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge

    The media are giving Obama grief for just about everything. But it's far too soon to judge his policies

  • Gate-Crashing Couple to Testify in Congress

    The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security committee is calling the Secret Service director and the couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner to testify on the incident

  • Senate Report: Bin Laden was 'Within Grasp'

    Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force

  • Admin. Plans New Efforts on Foreclosures

    With the foreclosure crisis showing no signs of relenting, the Obama administration plans to expand a program aimed at helping people remain in their homes

  • Can a Pro-Life Dem Bridge the Health Care Divide?

    Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, the son of the man often called the father of pro-life Democrats, faces the biggest issue of his three years in the Senate: a debate over federal funding of abortions that threatens to bring down health care reform

  • Obama to Announce Afghanistan Plan Tues.

    President Barack Obama will announce his plan to bolster the war in Afghanistan in a speech Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his spokesman said

  • Republicans Plot Their Health Care Attack Strategy

    The Senate's first day of debate on health reform gave a clear picture of the Republican attack strategy as the legislation moves forward

  • Senator's Affair Revealed in Text Message

    A Nevada man whose wife had an affair with Sen. John Ensign said he discovered the relationship after intercepting a text message around Christmas in 2007

  • A Health-Care Pep Talk for Senate Dems

    With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hours away, the White House dispatched a platoon of top strategists

  • Sanford Impeachment Hearings to Begin

    Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford's summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start debating a measure

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