'The secret senator' of spending is revealed
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The identity of the blogosphere's "secret senator" has been revealed.
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The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.
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There are hundreds of dollars in your wallet that you can't see.
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With his poll numbers in the tank, the President seems to be gearing up for a veto fight with Congress over a long forgotten issue  -  controlling spending
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The 2004 US presidential election is set to smash all spending records according to an independent study, which estimates that more than a billion dollars will be spent on the race for the White House by election day.
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Lawmakers pocketing wads of state money. A presidential palace whose upkeep costs four times more than Buckingham Palace's. A justice minister who hires his friend, a fish trader, as a consultant on prison construction.
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Parsing the senator's position on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial proposal.
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The Democratic-controlled Senate Thursday began debating a huge spending bill covering about one-sixth of the federal budget as the final step in completing the unfinished budget business inherited from Republicans.
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The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush a temporary spending measure to keep the federal government running through November 16, giving Democrats and Republicans time to work out budget disagreements.
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Whoever wrote a legislative provision to give more members of Congress access to income tax records should be tracked down and held to account, a Democratic senator said Monday.
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The feeding frenzy begins this week at the Senate Finance Committee.
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Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell helped arrange more than $11 million in federal money in the past year for projects benefiting clients of a lobbyist who is advising her re-election campaign and still owes her money from a personal loan.
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A review of Senator Charles E. Schumer's first term reveals not an idle backbencher, but a wily pragmatist who has been adept at the inside game.
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The amount people are spending on secret affairs is rising rapidly, with Britons collectively lavishing Â£189m on liaisons in the past three months, research showed today.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, confers with Paul Grove, right, a staffer for the Subcommittee for Foreign Operations, during a meeting on the end of the year spending bill on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov.
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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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Details of MPs travel expenses are published following a two-year battle with Commons authorities.