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Timing of Sen. Ensign Resignation Raises Questions

LAS VEGAS -- U.S. Sen. John Ensign's decision this week to resign marked a mysterious change of heart for the Nevada Republican, raising questions about what an ongoing Senate ethics probe has uncovered while also muddling the field of candidates for congressional seats now held by the GOP headed into a key election...

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Unlikely to Pass GOP

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama revisited a key campaign promise when he hosted a White House meeting of elected officials and experts on immigration. But if a major overhaul of the nation's immigration policy is his goal, Republicans in Congress say he shouldn't hold his breath. They say any bill that even hints at...

House Set to Vote on $6 Trillion Spending Cut Plan

WASHINGTON -- A bold but politically risky plan to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget steamed toward a party-line House vote Friday, as insurgent Republicans rallied behind the idea of fundamentally reshaping the government's role in health care for the elderly and the poor. The GOP plan proposes a federal...

Congress Sends Budget Cut Bill to Obama

Congress sent President Barack Obama hard-fought legislation cutting a record $38 billion from domestic spending on Thursday, bestowing bipartisan support on the first major compromise between the White House and newly empowered Republicans in Congress. "Welcome to divided government," said House Speaker John Boehner of...

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Chris Christie, Stung By New Jersey Supreme Court Nominee Defeat, Attacks Democratic Lawmakers

Saying that Democratic New Jersey state senators conducted a "political assassination" while making "a mockery of the process," Gov. Chris Christie (R) attacked the state Senate committee that defeated his state Supreme Court nominee Thursday.

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Edward Flattau: Lost at Sea

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had it right when she recently testified that "ideology" and "mythology," not facts, were behind conservative Republican senators' opposition to the UN Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

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Cutting Services Coast to Coast: How Far Is Too Far?

The argument about fiscal austerity has been drilled into all of us.

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Jumpstarting the Economy

Serving in the United States Senate from 1966 to 2005, I watched partisanship develop -- then gridlock.

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Tim Cook meets with US congressional leaders

Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to Washington, DC last week to meet with Congressional leaders, according to Fortune.

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06/01/12 Illinois lawmakers put off vote on pension reforms Source: AlertNet Divided Illinois lawmakers on Thursday put off a vote on proposed changes to its vastly underfunded public employee pension system, risking further credit rating downgrades of the state.
06/01/12 Senate Democratic 'Super PAC' raised $1.9 mln since... Source: Reuters Majority PAC, a "Super PAC" helping Democrats fight for seats in the U.S. Senate, raised $1.9 million in April and May, according to disclosure documents released on Thursday.
06/01/12 GAUVIN: Split the vote, keep the gridlock; thats no... Source: The Barnstable Patriot - Hyannis MA Republican U. S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democrat challenger Elizabeth Warren are said to be running "neck-and-neck," according to the latest poll taken by the Suffolk University/WHDH-TV team.
06/01/12 Roe says VA is exempt from automatic spending cuts Source: Times-News - Kingsport TN U.S. Rep. Phil Roe said Thursday the Department of Veterans Affairs will be exempt from automatic spending cuts called for in the 2011 Budget Control Act. Roe, a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, noted the VA won't be held to "sequestration" or about a half-trillion dollars' worth of defense and non-defense discretionary spending cuts scheduled to begin early next year.
06/01/12 JOSEPH REISERT: Both parties shifting away from... Source: Farmington Sentinel - Farmington ME Public dissatisfaction with Congress hovers near all-time highs.

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A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, since senate means the assembly of the eldest and wiser members of the society and ruling class.

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