Lamont spends &#36;750G to fund Senate race
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Democrat Ned Lamont is reaching for his hefty checkbook yet again. The multimillionaire businessman wrote a $750,000 check this week to help fund his campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman, the three-term incumbent running as an independent after losing the Democratic nod to Lamont.
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With the new budget year only weeks away, the House has passed a &#36;142.5 billion spending bill that funds some 500 education, health and job training programs.
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An economic aid plan to send rebates of $600-$1,200 to most taxpayers passed a key test Monday in the Senate, where Democrats are pushing to add more than $40 billion in help for seniors, disabled veterans and the unemployed.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign donors, many of them her top fundraisers, have directed nearly $90,000 to former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to help retire the debt he incurred before dropping out of the presidential race.
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In the most expensive presidential contest in the nation's history, John F. Kerry and his Democratic supporters nearly matched President Bush and the Republicans, who outspent them by just &#36;60 million, &#36;1.14 billion to &#36;1.08 billion.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton threw her support behind candidates running for state Senate at a Manhattan fund-raiser aimed at helping Democrats chip away at the Senate&#39;s Republican majority this November.
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A divided Senate approved an &#36;800 billion increase in the federal debt limit Wednesday, a major boost in borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.
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President Bush and John Kerry have accepted &#36;75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.
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The former senator is creating a committee that will let him raise money and take other steps toward a full-blown national campaign.
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One of the Senate's most prolific campaign fund-raisers is turning his attention to collecting millions for the Republican Party's 2006 election efforts.
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A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday backed a &#36;94 billion 2005 spending bill which included an extra &#36;800 million to fund space projects next year.
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Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb raised $3.5 million the past three months, the first substantial cash infusion into his campaign but less than half that raised by Republican incumbent Sen. George Allen.
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The Senate neared approval of an &#36;800 billion increase in the nation's debt limit on Wednesday, a major boost in federal borrowing that Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats blamed on the fiscal policies of President Bush.
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A group of U.S. senators on Tuesday sought $300 million in U.S. spending to combat tuberculosis while new tests confirmed that the U.S. man at the center of an international TB alarm is not highly infectious.
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Regrouping after heavy election losses, the Democrats' Senate fund-raising operation has paid nearly &#36;4 million in debts and recruited senators to raise money, enlist candidates and develop strategy for 2006.
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U.S. lawmakers struck a deal late on Friday on a &#36;388 billion package of government funding for the current fiscal year after days of battling over foreign aid, nuclear waste, milk subsidies and overtime.
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.