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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RICHMOND, Jan. 10 -- Democrats vowed Thursday to rule from the center as the controlling party of the Virginia Senate as they unveiled a list of priorities for the legislative session that began Wednesday.
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If Sen. Tim Johnson is incapacitated, control of the Senate could be determined by a usually routine "organizing resolution" early next month
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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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Conservatives are using the US senator's remark about judges to press a larger agenda.
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JOHN Howard has promised to implement key elements of a reform agenda that has been frustrated by the Senate in recent years, while promising not to ride roughshod over the electorate despite an overwhelming mandate.
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Text of speech by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., as prepared for delivery Tuesday at the Republican National Convention:
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has long favored a change in Senate rules, said on Thursday "one way or another" procedural roadblocks against federal judicial nominees must end.
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Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, is the man President Bush is counting on to enact his ambitious second-term agenda.
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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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The Inquiry focuses how the N.Y. Senate majority leaderâs private business dealings may relate to his position.
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The Senate heads for a make-or-break vote on Thursday on President George W. Bush's plan to overhaul immigration laws after Senate leaders battled to fend off efforts by opponents to derail the bill.
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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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Sen. Harry M. Reid (Nev.), a miner&#39;s son who grew up in a home with no indoor toilet, took command of Senate Democrats yesterday and promised to be a leader who would seek compromise and consensus
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The Massachusetts senator will soon be enshrined in the Gallery of Also-Rans in Norton, Kansas.
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House and Senate leaders were pushing for some legislative achievements before heading home to campaign.