Democrats win control of Pa. House
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Democrats won control of the Pennsylvania House for the first time in 12 years as Chester County officials on Tuesday settled a pair of tight races three weeks after the election.
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Democrats rewarded organized labor Thursday for helping them retake control of Congress, passing a House bill that would make it easier for workers to start unions against companies' wishes.
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Democrats say they are putting education reform at the top of their to-do list as they prepare to take control of Congress.
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Conservative Republican challengers prevailed against moderate incumbents in key legislative primary elections across Virginia yesterday, setting the stage for a bruising fall election in which Democrats will try to take over the GOP-controlled General Assembly by capturing the political middle.
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The Democratic Party has registered 108,000 more new voters than the Republican Party since the April primary in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to figures released Tuesday.
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Republican gains in the House and Senate could spell trouble for the Northeast, where moderate GOP lawmakers often align themselves with Democrats on social, environmental and transportation issues.
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Democrats wrested control of the Oregon Senate for the first time in a decade Tuesday, and they maintained a slim chance of grabbing the majority in the House as well, giving them the potential for vast new leverage in the upcoming legislative session.
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Barack Obama rolled to his 10th consecutive win for the Democrats, while  John McCain picked up two more states in his march to the GOP nomination.
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House Democrats, determined to make an election-year point about ethics, voted 99-58 Thursday night to strip Rep. William Jefferson of his committee assignment while a federal bribery investigation runs its course.
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Every seat in the House of Representatives was up for grabs yesterday, but Republicans were expected to handily maintain their majority.
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The 2006 congressional election campaign finally came to an end, with Democrats reclaiming a US House seat from a Republican incumbent in the last undecided legislative race.
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Tuesday's election turned Texas Democrats' political landscape from bleak to barren. A new redistricting map pushed through by Republicans helped the GOP gain a 21-11 advantage over Democrats in the state's congressional delegation, up from the current 16-16 split and the first GOP majority since Reconstruction.
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The Nov. 7 election included plenty of successes for Ohio Democrats, who wrested the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat from Republicans, picked up an open House seat, and ran highly competitive races against three GOP House incumbents.
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Sen.-elect Barack Obama is under no illusions that his superstar status in the Democratic Party will translate into political clout in a Republican-majority Congress.
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Sen. Barack Obama won seven of the 10 votes cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, while Sen. John McCain won the Republican balloting.
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In an effort to win Pennsylvania, the President backed Arlen Specter in the Republican Primary. Specter won by fewer than 16,000 votes and Pennsylvania went for Kerry anyway.
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The 109th session of Congress, frustrated by partisanship and criticized for its meager record of accomplishment, ended with flurry of bill-passing and promises of change when Democrats take over the House and Senate in January.