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The conservative firebrand Glenn Beck is planning voter registration drives and rallies, but he is cautious about how he might directly support particular candidates.

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In advance of her re-election bid next year, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas sided with her fellow Democrats for one vote, but was cautious about the overall health bill.

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On her book tour, Sarah Palin has skipped the big cities authors usually visit in favor of smaller places where she and Senator John McCain performed well on the presidential ticket.

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A fight of galactic proportions over health care looms. Here’s a playbook for aficionados of legislative war-games.

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Sarah Palin brings a big question into focus for Republican leaders: Should they hitch themselves to the powerful but volatile strain of populism she embodies?

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Senate Democrats made a case for legislation to revamp the nation’s health care system in a parade of floor speeches aimed at cementing party unity ahead of a first crucial vote.

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This year in the Senate, even popular bills and generally acceptable executive branch nominees have had to traverse a time-consuming procedural thicket.

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The committee finds that a senator had been less than candid in statements on his dealings with associates of the Illinois governor, who was later forced from office.

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A report released by Republicans in Congress said that a school chancellor in Washington intervened on behalf of her fiancé, who was under investigation by the AmeriCorps.

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A variety of economists say that stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would.

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Michigan had the highest jobless rate at 15.1 percent, followed by Nevada at 13 percent and Rhode Island at 12.9 percent.

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The official responsible for the problem-plagued disability compensation system at the Department of Veterans Affairs will resign early next year, the department announced Friday.

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The effort had been seen by opponents as a possible new front in the national debate over the matter.

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three wavering Democrats, said Friday that he would vote to start debate on a giant health care bill.

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How do Senate leaders persuade fence-sitters to vote against their own political instincts?

The role thrusts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton into the thick of a critical international problem.

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Rejecting warnings by the Obama administration, a committee approved a plan by Representative Ron Paul to carry out sweeping new audits of the central bank’s policy decisions and operations.

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President Obama pledged to complete a long-stalled trade agreement with South Korea that he inherited from former President George W. Bush.

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The Court of Appeals left to the Legislature the broader issue of whether same-sex marriage should be legal in New York.

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Advocating civil disobedience to resist laws compelling institutions to perform abortion or recognize unions.

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Amid concerns over an aging stockpile, federal advisers have concluded that programs to extend the life of the nation’s nuclear arms ensure their destructiveness for decades to come.

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Senator Harry Reid scheduled the first crucial procedural vote on the major health care legislation for Saturday, after what is expected to be two marathon days of debate.

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The Senate majority leader’s deep personal involvement in assembling the overhaul of the health care system has led the measure to the brink of a historic Senate debate.

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Republican governors gathered to assess their political future and saw their road back to power and unity through pocketbook issues.

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The Senate voted 59 to 39 to confirm Judge David F. Hamilton, President Obama’s first judicial nominee, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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