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The idea of a bipartisan tax-cut bargain evaporates.
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Approps bills could be diced into smaller pieces.
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Dems offer "job-creating measures" on Senate floor.
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The commission holds its final meeting, still divided and struggling to reach a consensus.
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Ovide Lamontagne launches a 2012 PAC.
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By GROVER G. NORQUIST & CHRISTOPHER BARRON | 12/2/10 6:17 AM
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They are trying to regain control of the committee.
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The White House’s uneasy on again, off again relationship with offshore oil drilling is off again.
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Roughly one-third of new lawmakers can boast checks from one of two huge players in the industry.
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The House Democrats’ prized global warming committee died quietly on Wednesday.
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The registry would allow consumers to prevent sites from tracking and using their browsing habits.
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By SEN. BOB CASEY | 12/2/10 4:39 AM
Opinion: The tax credit is vital relief to families struggling to give their children the basics.
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Opinion: The FTC could push to end disreputable data practices that undermine online trust.
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"My campaign was never about race," the Republican says in a statement.
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Democratic ad-man produces several memorable spots this election cycle.
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The chief of staff will leave at the end of December.
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He warns against failing to ratify the new treaty.
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Nearly a quarter of the 84 incoming Republican lawmakers have assets of at least seven figures.
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Nearly two dozen heads of states of both parties will spend the afternoon listening to the president.
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In the last unresolved House race, N.Y. Democrat Tim Bishop pleads for his opponent to concede.
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"Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have to get in touch with reality" on Social Security and taxes.
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The foyer of the VP's Naval Observatory residence is decked out with candles, garland and wreaths.
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This time they're hoping to win support from a handful of moderate lawmakers from both parties.
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House Republicans use a procedural gambit on Obama's child nutrition bill.
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The bill, passed by a bipartisan vote in the Senate, could be derailed by a procedural error.
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Judge sets Dec. 8 for hearing arguments.
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Sen. John Ensign says he will not face federal charges growing out of a Justice inquiry.
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in the midst of an FBI investigation, John Edwards's defunct campaign is still paying legal fees.
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House Republicans move to get rid of votes on symbolic resolutions.
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The Pentagon is concerned that provocations from N. Korea will drag the U.S. into a full-blown conflict.
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By BILL SCHNEIDER | 12/2/10 4:39 AM
Opinion: in presidential politics, opposites rule. Republicans have to offer voters the un-Obama.
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The reps. are elected co-chairmen of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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The incoming Iowa governor warns those mulling presidential bids not to skip his state's straw poll.
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The senator tells POLITICO he has considered retiring before, but won't decide before early 2011.
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He marks World AIDS Day by urging lawmakers to continue supporting the battle against the disease.