Senate leader-elect sets agenda
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Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid said Tuesday he's doing away with the "do-nothing Congress" that Democrats campaigned against and plans to keep senators working long hours &#151; focusing first on ethics, the minimum wage and stem cell research.
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Control of the U.S. Senate could be determined by Republican Gov. Mike Rounds if a replacement must be named for Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson.
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New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg, who is set to take over in January as the chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, on Wednesday promised to control spending and rein in the record U.S. budget deficit.
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Et tu, Mitch? For practical purposes, President Bush's domestic agenda was canceled at 11:22 yesterday morning when Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, approached the front of the chamber to vote on the immigration legislation the president had championed. McConnell caught the...
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The chairman of the banking committee of the Senate will on Wednesday afternoon unveil a comprehensive plan to reform mortgage lending, sources familiar with the plan said.
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The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday he wants to hold a hearing next week on draft legislation he is preparing to establish a national fund for compensating asbestos victims.
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A leading Republican senator on  Sunday unveiled a plan to reform U.S. intelligence operations,  including giving increased budget and firing powers to a new  director.
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Still reeling from their election losses, Senate Democrats elected a new leadership team Tuesday, installing moderate Sen. Harry Reid as their new leader.
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Conventional wisdom held that the Democrats elected to the Senate last year would largely be moderates, trying to tailor their votes in Washington to appeal to as broad a group of voters as possible to secure their seats. If so, that must mean opposing President BushÃ¢ÂÂs agenda is an increasingly moderate proposition.
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With cots, pillows and pleas for change, the Democratic-led U.S. Senate began a rare around-the-clock session on Tuesday to push President George W. Bush and fellow Republicans to end the Iraq war.
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats yesterday elected Harry Reid of Nevada as their new minority leader, and Reid prodded Republicans to join him in working across party lines over the next two years.
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Chicago Tribune - Despite Republican victories in the elections this week, much of President Bush's agenda faces considerable head winds in Congress, particularly the Senate.
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Sen. Elizabeth Dole has secured more than half of the votes she needs to become the first woman to lead the GOP campaign committee that works to help elect Republicans to the Senate.
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Democrats are aiming for a resolution that is simpler than the Senate's.
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If the next Congress follows through on Democratic leadership promises to conduct aggressive oversight of the government, a to-do list will be waiting, courtesy of Comptroller General David M. Walker , the head of the Government Accountability Office.
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Senate Democrats selected Nevada&#39;s Harry M. Reid as the new Senate minority leader replacing Tom Daschle who lost his bid for re-election.
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The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he would push ahead next week with legislation that would set up a &#36;140 billion trust fund to compensative people sickened by exposed to asbestos.