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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 24 months ago
Washington confronted a new world order Thursday as the Democrats' supermajority died, taking with it much of President Barack Obama's agenda and any certainty of his party maintaining control of Congress.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 44 months ago
President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. McClellan will testify publicly and under oath... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 49 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Democrats, trying to get the jump on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to renounce the use of waterboarding in interrogations, announce he will close Guantanamo Bay to detainees and outline new policies toward Pakistan and Iran.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 2010 elections have changed the direction of government only half way through the primary season, with voter anger and economic jitters causing lawmakers to balk at their most basic duties as well as key elements of President Barack Obama's agenda.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A $23 billion payout to save thousands of educators' jobs faltered Thursday - perhaps for good - to election-year jitters among moderate Democrats over deficit spending and only lukewarm support from the White House.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was billed as a high-noon cease-fire between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans, but the rare, private Capitol Hill meeting instead shot holes in the notion of any bipartisanship this election year.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican officials say President Barack Obama and Sen. Bob Corker clashed during a private meeting over whether anyone in either party was really trying to be bipartisan this election year.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans called a high-noon cease-fire in their long-running political feud Tuesday, holding a rare, private meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss what legislation can be achieved during this volatile election year.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans are talking immigration reform with President Barack Obama, including plans to deploy thousands of National Guard troops and drones to tighten border security.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 21 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A prominent Senate Democrat asked Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to put off her state's controversial immigration law to give Congress a chance to act. Scant time passed before Brewer's answer came back: No.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 21 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A prominent Senate Democrat is asking Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to put off her state's controversial new immigration law for a year to give Congress a chance to pass a federal law - a long-shot request on a bill that even the White House says is nearly dead.... More
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by Laurie Kellman, Matthew Daly from hosted.ap.org, 21 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Democrats say that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico adds urgency to the troubled energy and climate overhaul bill working its way through the Senate. But concerns among other lawmakers leave the bill no clear path forward.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 21 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders say the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico adds urgency to the troubled energy reform bill working its way through the Senate.... More
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by Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 21 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two deeply unpopular U.S. institutions - Congress and Wall Street - slung blame for the shaky economy around a Senate hearing room Tuesday, none of it landing among the dark suits at the witness table or the politicians behind the dais.... More
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by Brock Vergakis, Laurie Kellman from hosted.ap.org, 21 months ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Republican Sen. Bob Bennett - darling of the National Rifle Association and grandson of a Mormon Church president - suddenly may not be conservative enough for ultraconservative Utah.... More
