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US Senators Warn of Stalemate in Libya [VIDEO]

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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"Middle-Class Millionaires"? Dissecting a Democrat's Misguided Move

Once again a Democrat's letting the Right set the terms of the debate.

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Wisconsin Recall: Election Law Quirk Could Throw Governance Into Disarray

Right now, Wisconsin has a Republican governor and lieutenant governor.

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Peter Dreier: Howard Kurtz's Newsweek Slam at Obama Distorts Political Reality

With one paragraph at the end of his column in the current (June 4-11) Newsweek , Howard Kurtz unwittingly revealed what's wrong with the way the mainstream media cover politics.

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Obama Embraces John McCain To Draw Contrast With Mitt Romney Ahead Of 2012 Election

President Barack Obama seems to think that the world of politics would be better if someone like John McCain were running for the White House.

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Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, Defends Voter ID Law

Kobach, the state's chief election official, faced questioning from a group of 30 Wichita residents who accused him of trying to surpress voter turnout around the state, the Wichita Eagle reports.

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06/04/12 7 vie to be GOP nominee for governor in Tuesday primary Source: The Billings Gazette - Billings MT Disagreeing on few issues, the seven Republican candidates for governor have been running low-key, friendly campaigns until the race recently escalated with an attack on former U.S. Rep. Rick Hill, the presumed frontrunner.
06/04/12 NYT: Lawmakers look for way out as defense cuts near Source: NBC - 11 News KKCO - Grand Junction CO Senator Lindsey Graham rode last week like Paul Revere from South Carolina's wooded upstate to its gracious Lowcountry to its sweltering midsection, offering a bureaucratic rallying cry for his military-heavy state â the defense cuts are coming.
06/04/12 Fort Worth's Davis expected to be a star of Texas... Source: Star-Telegram State Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth is touted by Democrats statewide as a fighter.
06/04/12 Glitch lurks in Kansas income tax cuts Source: The Wichita Eagle The mammoth new tax bill passed in May was supposed to cut Kansas income taxes and still allow deductions for donations to charity and interest paid on home mortgages.
06/04/12 Political Notebook: Unclear why Poliquin is targeted Source: Portland Press Herald - Portland ME Is State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin the frontrunner in the six-way Republican U.S. Senate primary?

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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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