 | Pelosi: Confident House will pass health care bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's confident the House will pass health care legislation, while dismissing Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes for the measure.
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 | Fiorina assails Washington, Boxer as out of touch
Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is attempting to win over California Republicans by attacking two of their strongest dislikes — incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and a federal government she says is broken.
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 | Schumer wants review of background checks
A U.S. senator wants a review of the background checks that are done on potential employees at nuclear power plants.
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 | Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects
President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.
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 | GOP warns again against passing health bill
The Senate's newest Republican is weighing in on health care reform, saying the Democrats' legislation will be a disaster.
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 | Obama prepares education overhaul
President Barack Obama says it's time to prepare students for life after high school and put better teachers at the front of the classroom.
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 | Clinton urges new fight for women's equality
Fifteen years after electrifying a U.N. conference in Beijing with a call for women's equality, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that millions of women and girls around the world are still poor, uneducated and treated as inferior human beings.
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 | McConnell says student aid plan is a bad idea
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says including changes to student aid in the health care legislation is a bad idea.
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 | Dad of 'Idol' judge to run for Senate
The father of American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, former Republican congressman Joe DioGuardi, is set to announce he is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand.
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 | Reid's wife hospitalized after serious crash
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was at his wife's side in a Virginia hospital Friday as she was treated for a broken neck and back suffered in a traffic accident that also injured their daughter.
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