Liberals to hold top leadership posts in Democrat-run US Congress
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The US Congress, run for years with an iron fist by hardliners in President George W. Bush's Republican party, will get a radical makeover if opposition Democrats win November's midterm election.
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Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who was elected to Congress only four years ago, will lead House Democrats' fundraising and recruiting efforts heading into the 2008 election, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday.
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Victorious Democrats will, with the opening of the 110th Congress, have a historic opportunity to right the course of a country that has been hell-bent on permitting free-trade corporatists and faith-based economics to bankrupt the nation.
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Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen will head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in the upcoming 2007-08 election cycle, as it defends the House majority the party won in last monthÃ¢ÂÂs elections.
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A handful of nail-biter contests could flip control of the US Senate to the Democrats in the November 2 election, while the House of Representatives is expected to remain firmly in the grasp of George W. Bush's Republican Party.
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WASHINGTON, June 7  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A bipartisan group of 101 Members of Congress -- led by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep.
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Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told fellow Democrats she wants to pass the party's six top legislative items and toughen ethics rules before President Bush delivers his State of the Union address.
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Leading Democrats who soon will  control the legislative agenda in the U.S. Congress rejected on  Monday a colleague's call for reinstatement of the U.S.  military draft.
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House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided Tuesday that Rep. William Jefferson will not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.
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The closest thing Congress has to a peace movement &#151; 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring troops home swiftly &#151; faces a dilemma: The lawmakers can back a Democratic plan they think is too weak, or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Leading the majority party in the Senate, a job that has been likened to herding cats, is tough enough in ordinary times. For Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), last week's Republican election triumphs paradoxically made the job tougher yet.
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When Democrats took control of Congress in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to jointly push an ambitious agenda to counter 12 years of Republican control.
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The California congresswoman leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
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Democrats enter the fall campaign  with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the  U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them  positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make  significant gains in the Senate.
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NEW LEADER: Democrats will vote on a new chairman for the Democratic National Committee in February.
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If they retake control of Congress, Democrats will act quickly to increase the minimum wage, lower prescription drug costs and slash interest rates on student loans, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday.
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, the leading  liberal voice in Congress, said on Wednesday that Democrats  "must do a better job" of promoting what he called their basic,  unifying values if they are to rebound from their defeat in the  November elections.