Sen. Barbara Boxer Steps Into Spotlight
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Sen. Barbara Boxer has always spoken up, but the California Democrat seems to have gotten a lot louder lately. Her opposition to Condoleezza Rice's secretary of state nomination was so combative that it was parodied on Saturday Night Live. That came on the heels of her decision to sign onto a House member's complaint about Ohio voting problems, forcing Congress to debate them before certifying President Bush's re-election victory.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, warned Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to ``watch out'' in her comments on race.
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BURLINGTON, Vermont  - From pressing for hearings on Iraq to probing no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton Co., America's first socialist senator aims to give Congress a hard tilt to the left.
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Allegations of a vicious dogfighting ring prompted an unusually emotional speech in the Capitol yesterday, as the Senate's longest-serving member fought tears and called for God's judgment on those who promote such activities.
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) may be the new kid on the block, but she's having no trouble making her views known to the old bulls on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clintonâs rivals for the Democratic nomination have begun rolling out aggressive new strategies aimed primarily at her.
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Mississippi's junior Senator returns to leadership--and to wars with Democrats and the White House
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The Democratic candidate has marshalled star power as never before in a campaign. And he's putting them to work.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 5--When W. Shelton Miles dropped a bomb on the state Senate subcommittee, you could almost see the blood drain from one lawmaker's face.  "This is extraordinarily unusual," said Sen. John Watkins, R-Powhatan.
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The photograph of a scowling Muhammad  Ali standing over a prostrate Sonny Liston hanging in Illinois  Democrat Barack Obama's office could be a metaphor for the  knockout he is expected to deliver in his Senate race against  Alan Keyes.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, viewed by many last year as virtually unstoppable in her bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee, is now seeking to portray herself as the underdog against her rival Sen. Barack Obama.
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The hotly contested race to fill  Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone  who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting  trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide  bombers.
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âFoot-in-mouthâ senator has found a new strategy to stay on message.
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A Senate famous for its "deliberative pace" is hoping to rush out bills this week bolstering pensions, raising the minimum wage and cutting taxes before departing the Capitol and shifting their re-election campaigns into high gear.
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Lots of buzz in the air with so many of boxing&#39;s major players on the scene. Here&#39;s what we&#39;re hearing: Kali Meehan: &quot;When I say the name Rock Rahman to people, they look at me, Oh, Rock&#39;s tough.
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Republican state Sen. Jim Whitehead Ã¢ÂÂ already regarded by some local observers as the early front-runner for the upcoming special election to replace the late Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood in GeorgiaÃ¢ÂÂs 10th District Ã¢ÂÂ has been further boosted by the withdrawal from the race by one of his state Senate colleagues, Ralph T. Hudgens.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, viewed by many  last year as virtually unstoppable in her bid to become the  Democratic presidential nominee, is now seeking to portray  herself as the underdog against her rival Sen. Barack Obama.