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  • Secret Service: 91 Breaches Since 1980

    An internal Secret Service document reveals that last month's gate crashing incident at a White House state dinner was one of 91 security breaches since 1980

  • Afghanistan: Can Obama Sell America on This War?

    President Obama offered a reasoned case for troop expansion in Afghanistan in his speech at West Point. But Americans need inspiration as well

  • Baucus: Girlfriend Merited U.S. Attorney Nom

    Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying she is "highly qualified"

  • Admin Slashing Bailout Cost Estimate

    The Obama administration will lose $200 billion less than expected from the federal bailout program and is looking at using part of the savings to fund new job creation efforts

  • Obama: Jobs Plan Will 'Jump-Start' Hiring

    Even as he trumpeted a slowdown in the nation's job losses, President Barack Obama put finishing touches Friday on a proposal he'll unveil next week to "jump-start" business hiring across America

  • Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus

    Less than a year after the $787 billion stimulus package was passed, Democrats are spooked enough by the double-digit unemployment rate to push for a new jobs bill

  • Senate Rejects GOP Medicare Amendment

    The Senate rejected a Republican bid Thursday to stave off Medicare cuts and approved safeguards for coverage of mammograms and other preventive tests for women

  • White House Gate-Crasher Subpoena Possible

    Congress wants to talk to the husband and wife who slipped through security into last week's state dinner at the White House

  • No Testifying for Obama's Social Secretary?

    The White House's justification for why its social secretary will not be testifying to Congress about the state dinner gate-crashing controversy has raised some eyebrows among legal scholars

  • Obama to Talk Health Care with Dem Senators

    bama plans to speak at the caucus meeting, scheduled for 2 p.m., as senators work through the weekend on overhaul legislation.

  • Will the Plan Match the Stagecraft?

    The President effectively made his case on Afghanistan to West Point cadets and the American public. But will it work?

  • Is Obama Scaling Back Bush's AIDS Initiative?

    Many global health advocates worry that the success of the Bush Administration's global AIDS initiative may be jeopardized by harsh economic realities and shifting political priorities

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MITCH MCCONNELL, Senate Republican leader of Kentucky, on the health care bill that Democrats can now pass after securing a 60th vote from Sen. Ben Nelson Saturday
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