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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John J. Sweeney is facing his first serious challenge as he seeks a fourth term -- and it is from his own base, the labor left. The AFL's 60 member unions will meet in July to choose the next president, but the struggle for votes has already begun.
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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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A vote on the Democratic-sponsored  Iraq resolution expected to hit the Senate floor next week will mark the first time Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has embraced a legislative deadline for withdrawing from the war-torn nation, a step she has consistently resisted to this point.
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The New York senator has been tapped by Democratic leaders to try to engineer the party's Senate comeback.
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By Raphael Lewis and Benjamin Gedan, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent | October 31, 2004. Republican state Senate candidate Rod Jane of Westborough woke up yesterday with a plan to grab some attention from
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Democrats were on the verge of knocking off two Republican incumbents Wednesday and taking a 26-23 majority in the state Senate. âIt should work out, but Iâm not guaranteeing it,â said Sen. Ken Jacobsen
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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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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 senator took the platform of a late-night talk show and said he would formally announce his campaign for the presidency in early April.
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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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BURLINGTON, Vermont  - From pressing for hearings on Iraq to probing no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton Co., America's first socialist senator aims to give Congress a hard tilt to the left.
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Former Gov. Mark Warner announced Thursday that he will run next year for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. John Warner, who is retiring after 30 years in office.
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A NEW era of political dominance awaits John Howard when he gets back to business today. The Prime Minister will outline a fourth-term agenda knowing he is within striking distance of a majority in the Senate.
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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.
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Democratic senators elected Harry Reid of Nevada as their new leader on Tuesday, to succeed Tom Daschle, who was defeated for re-election on Nov. 2 in South Dakota.
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The former senator plans to officially kick off his presidential bid Thursday.