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Senate Dems Rebuff House GOP Move

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON — Democrats controlling the Senate rejected for the second year in a row Wednesday a budget plan passed by House Republicans. The 58...

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Senate Dems Unveil Plan To Boost Business Hiring And Investment

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to debate a Democratic bill to kill several tax breaks taken by the five largest oil companies and use some...

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Michael McAuliff

Reagan Is Liberal Icon In Debt Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats have a new icon these days: Ronald Reagan. That's because, unlike many Republicans in the House, the fiscally conservative ...

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Samuel Haass

Union to Democratic Senators: Don't Cut Medicaid!

HuffingtonPost.com | Samuel Haass | Posted 09.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The top union representing state and local workers is putting pressure on moderate Senate Democrats to reject any debt ceiling proposals...

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Sam Stein

Democrats Consider Offering Medicare Provider Cuts In Exchange For Revenue Increases

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) decision on Thursday to leave ongoing debt ceiling negotiations seemed to bring those talks to...

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Elise Foley

Senate Dems To Obama: Stop Deporting DREAM Act Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Leading Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), called on the president on Wednesday to stop deporting undocument...

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Elise Foley

Lieberman: Don't Count On Dems To Raise Debt Limit Without Deficit Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) warned on Tuesday that he and many Democrats would oppose increasing the debt limit without measures for...

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Elise Foley

Senate Dem Aide: Deal To Avert Shutdown Reached 1.5 Hours Before Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) briefed his conference on the broad strokes of a government funding bill, aides behind the scenes...

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Elise Foley

House Republican: Keeping Funding From Abortions Is Why We Were Elected

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans won the House in November partially based on a mandate to defund Planned Parenthood, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, head of the conse...

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Lucia Graves

Religious Leaders Go On Hunger Strike Over GOP Budget Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Congress' negotiations over a resolution to keep the government funded devolve, exasperated religious leaders on Monday said the deep...

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Sam Stein

Government Funding Talks Descending Into Widespread Recriminations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.28.2011

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Negotiations over a resolution to keep the government funded until the fall have devolved into recriminations, with Senate Democrats arguing that Hous...

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Elise Foley

Democrats Aim For Repeal Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage Ban

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats launched a repeal effort against the Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday, introducing companion bills in both chambers of Con...

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Sam Stein

Nancy Pelosi: Don't Blame Us, Blame The Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged progressives and pundits alike not punish House Democrats in the 2010 elections for the lethargy and sho...

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Sam Stein

Senate Dems May Open Up Medicare To Pacify Progressives

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Democrats are discussing the idea of expanding Medicare by lowering the age limit for the government-run insurance program, Democratic sources ...

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Sam Stein

Senate GOP Mailer Suggests Dem Health Care System Will Discriminate By Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Republicans are mailing out a "survey" insinuating that the president's health care reform agenda includes the creation of a lottery system to ...

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The Meaning of the Specter Switch

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mary Lyon

My instinct is not to trust this too much. I can't help looking this gift horse directly in the mouth, through the teeth, and down the hatch.

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Bolu Adeyeye

Dems Will Gain Seats This Fall -- But How Many?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bolu Adeyeye | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lost amid the media frenzy over Barack Obama's tour abroad is recognition that this week has arguably been the most successful of the cycle for Senate...

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