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03/11/2010 03:25 AM
Former Reps. Eric Massa and veteran Charles Rangel represent potential albatrosses for Democrats in the fall elections, and the party can only hope that the problems fade away. 
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03/11/2010 03:20 AM
Even as the investigation ends, former Rep. Eric Massa's alleged harassment of his staff members -- with possible sexual overtones -- could spell continuing trouble for Democrats. 
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03/10/2010 11:38 PM
New details about the involvement of the House speaker's office will likely fuel questions about when the leadership learned of the allegations and whether they could have investigated the matter earlier. 
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03/10/2010 10:27 PM
New watchdog report says the Treasury Department sank billions into auto finance giant GMAC without an exit strategy or proof the company was viable - a decision that could cost taxpayers $6.3 billion. 
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03/10/2010 09:06 PM
House Speaker Pelosi said late Wednesday that the unresolved issues were mostly "minor, just technical things" 
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03/10/2010 06:50 PM
As the Arkansas Senate race heats up, Sen. Blanche Lincoln wants to set the record straight on settling health care with a simple majority vote. 
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03/10/2010 06:17 PM
Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging onto the national stage as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill. 
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03/10/2010 05:30 PM
Looking to challenge a time-honored privilege widely used by both parties when they are in the minority, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday vowed to remove the filibuster as a weapon to kill legislation by debating it to death. 
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03/10/2010 05:18 PM
The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and Republicans raised concerns about his alleged bias in favor of sex offenders. 
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03/10/2010 05:10 PM
The House voted down a challenge to President Obama's conduct of the war in Afghanistan Wednesday, rejecting a measure that would have compelled U.S. armed forces to leave the country within 30 days. 
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03/10/2010 03:41 PM
Two Democratic and Republican campaign groups released their lists Wednesday of the top House seats and incumbents targeted in the November midterm elections. 
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03/10/2010 03:24 PM
The health care reform bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve appears to be dead on arrival in the House, as seven anti-abortion Democrats intend to join the ranks of lawmakers who plan to vote against the legislation, Fox News has confirmed 
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03/10/2010 03:08 PM
Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who is not seeking a new term, decried the war in Afghanistan and the media coverage of the debate in a remarkable display of anger Wednesday on the House floor. 
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03/10/2010 02:50 PM
A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers' request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison. 
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03/10/2010 02:13 PM
Individuals out of work for more than six weeks could soon get additional government aid after the Senate passed legislation Wednesday. 
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03/10/2010 01:56 PM
President Obama has set an aggressive schedule for completing work on the bulk of the year-in-the-making health care package and may be getting the jump on the raft of Tea Party events set for the coming weeks. 
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03/10/2010 01:55 PM
Two Republican senators on Wednesday called on President Obama to stop attacking the Supreme Court, lending support to Chief Justice John Roberts, who took umbrage at the president's criticism of the court's controversial campaign finance decision during his State of the Union address. 
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03/10/2010 01:48 PM
The U.S. Census Bureau plans to hire nearly 800,000 people by May, an infusion of jobs that is estimated to bring down the unemployment rate temporarily and boost the country's overall economy. 
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03/10/2010 01:28 PM
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the February deficit totaled $220.9 billion, 14 percent higher than the previous record set in February of last year. 
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03/10/2010 12:44 PM
The top Republican on the Senate committee that received an e-mail warning staffers not to visit the Drudge Report said there is no evidence "whatsoever" of an embedded virus on the news site and suggested the warning was a ruse to steer people away from the sometimes-incendiary page. 
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