Campaigns Pause for Senate Vote
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton rushed to Washington yesterday afternoon to join the Senate fracas over an Iraq war resolution after telling a New Hampshire audience hours earlier that she would rather lose support for her presidential bid than apologize for her vote in 2002 authorizing the military action....
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House and Senate leaders were pushing for some legislative achievements before heading home to campaign.
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Candidates are sparring over anti-graft moves ahead of Thursday's presidential and parliamentary vote.
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Senator Maria CantwellÂs campaign appears to be benefiting from a cold dose of pragmatism among antiwar Democrats.
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Democrat Harold Ford Jr. played touch football with his campaign staff while Republican Bob Corker spent some quiet moments with his family in advance of Saturday night's U.S. Senate debate.
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Lawmakers at the Senate have delayed a controversial bill that would make it easier to sue online file-trading networks because there is too much opposition to it.
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The vote had been scheduled in an attempt to help end a weeklong political crisis set off by a hotly contested presidential runoff election.
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A Senate panel postponed a vote scheduled for Thursday on approving John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, a job he has held temporarily since last year when President Bush appointed him over Democratic opposition.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus package.
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After a marathon all-night debate, the Senate today turned back a Democratic attempt to force a vote on a proposal mandating troop withdrawals from Iraq. The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed for the measure to proceed.
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Voters this fall could take small steps toward increased diversity in the Senate.
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Vote effectively delays debate on whether to immunize telephone companies from lawsuits. But it's unclear whether the Senate will follow suit, and a veto threat is looming.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.
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Charges of vote trading and unethical fundraising against majority leader DeLay may curb his ability to raise money.
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Two weeks before the first vote is cast in the state-by-state process to select party candidates for the U.S. presidential election, one Republican was briefly hospitalized and another dropped out on Thursday.
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Long lines, a shortage of poll workers and unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots could delay vote counts in the biggest-ever Super Tuesday in American politics Â a day in which nearly half the nation will cast ballots.
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The Senate approval of the 700 mile fence came as lawmakers were trying to finish a batch of legislation before heading home to campaign.