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Gates: Iran support for Taliban 'pretty limited'
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Last Updated: 7:01 AM 03/11/10 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Iranian support for the Taliban in Afghanistan isn't much of a problem for the United States right now. (Full Story)
Massa blames his resignation on health care debate
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Last Updated: 7:11 PM 03/08/10 - New York Rep. Eric Massa is blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care.
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Proposal seeks to save school jobs
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Last Updated: 6:09 PM 03/05/10 - The measure represents a glimmer of hope for school districts looking to minimize or avoid layoffs.
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Obama focuses on school dropouts
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Last Updated: 8:01 AM 03/01/10 - President Barack Obama is about to offer another education incentive to turn around low-performing schools and cut the dropout rate. To take advantage of some of the $900 million in grants states and school districts will have to get drastic -- replacing principals, reopening schools as charter schools or closing them outright. (Full Story)
Senate to vote on modest jobs bill, passage likely
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Last Updated: 7:58 AM 02/24/10 - The Senate is expected to hand Democrats a much sought-after victory today by passing a jobs-promoting bill. (Full Story)
Bipartisan jobs bill advances past GOP filibuster
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Last Updated: 6:26 AM 02/23/10 - A bipartisan jobs bill is expected to pass the Senate tomorrow after clearing a Republican filibuster attempt with help from five GOP senators who broke ranks. (Full Story)
Democrats cautiously embrace Obama health plan
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Last Updated: 6:23 AM 02/23/10 - Republicans' trashing of President Barack Obama's health care proposal bodes ill for the prospects of any deal at the bipartisan health care summit scheduled for Thursday. (Full Story)
New Obama health proposal would limit rate hikes
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Last Updated: 6:34 AM 02/22/10 - President Barack Obama is trying to revive his stalled health care overhaul by taking the fight to insurance companies. (Full Story)
As Harry Reid maps comeback, casinos a factor
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Last Updated: 6:31 AM 02/18/10 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's poll numbers make him look like an easy mark, but casino owners who have a history of disregarding party and going with the winner in Nevada politics are putting their money on him winning re-election. (Full Story)
STIMULUS WATCH: Unemployment eclipses fiscal jolt
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Last Updated: 6:29 AM 02/18/10 - The jobless got a hand. Taxpayers got tax breaks. And a sinking economy stabilized. (Full Story)
GOP sees possible upside in health care summit
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Last Updated: 6:25 AM 02/18/10 - Congressional Republicans see a chance for political gain in President Barack Obama's televised health care summit next week, even though the president will be running the show. (Full Story)
PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs bill short on making jobs
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Last Updated: 5:47 AM 02/11/10 - There's a problem with the bipartisan jobs bill emerging in the Senate: It won't create many jobs. (Full Story)
Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at age 76
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Last Updated: 5:36 AM 02/11/10 - The late Rep. Charlie Wilson worked tenaciously to funnel millions of dollars in weapons to Afghan rebels who fought off the Soviet Union. He later watched Afghanistan plunge into chaos and eventually harbor al-Qaida terrorists. (Full Story)
GOP cool to Obama's call for television bipartisan health care talks
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Last Updated: 6:32 PM 02/08/10 - Republicans are giving a frosty reception to President Barack Obama's invitation to televised talks on health care. (Full Story)
Brown taps military specialist as chief of staff
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Last Updated: 3:45 PM 02/04/10 - Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown has hired a chief of staff.
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Democrats hoping for news in Ill. governor's race
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Last Updated: 1:05 PM 02/04/10 - Illinois voters are hoping for clarity two days after the nation's first primary election revealed no clear winner in the Democratic or Republican races for governor.
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Obama to Democratic senators: `We still have to lead'
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Last Updated: 12:37 PM 02/03/10 - Democrats may have lost their super-majority in the Senate, but President Barack Obama is telling them, "We still have to lead."
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Sen.-elect Brown says he supports abortion rights
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Last Updated: 5:27 PM 01/31/10 - Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts says he opposes federal funding for abortions, but thinks women should have the right to choose whether to have one. (Full Story)
Obama hopes to rekindle old magic in State of the Union address
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Last Updated: 10:45 PM 01/26/10 - President Barack Obama will try to revive his "yes we can" image in his first State of the Union address while offering repackaged plans on the economy and terrorism.
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Beau Biden won't run, leaving another Democratic Senate seat in play
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Last Updated: 5:27 PM 01/25/10 - Delaware's state attorney general, Beau Biden, says he's not going to run for the seat that was held for 36 years by his father before becoming vice president. (Full Story)
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