The first session of the Senate was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 6, 1790. Their first meeting in Washington, D.C. was held on November 17, 1800. Their first meeting in the current c...
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Republican Sen. John Ensign has come a long way since a heartbreaking political defeat in 1998. After serving two terms in the U.S. House, Ensign, a veterinarian by trade, ran for Senate against De...
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Republican Mike Johanns looked to the Web before taking to the road Wednesday, announcing his run for a Senate seat through a short online video.The former governor, who resigned as U.S. agricultur...
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Western lawmakers say the Senate isn't serving up enough American red meat. Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester, both Democrats, are protesting an entree of Kobe Beef imported from Japan they r...
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Baghdad (dpa) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday
criticized two United States senators and the French foreign minister
who demanded that the premier and his ca...
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Washington (dpa) - After a week of intense pressure from employees
and civil rights advocates, CBS radio Thursday said it had fired for
good the provocative talk show host D...
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Washington (dpa) - The US environmentalist and former vice
president Al Gore has stepped on Canada's global warming toes,
charging Saturday that a proposed policy on carbon ...
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Brushing aside threats of a presidential veto, a Senate committee on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be finan...
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Brushing aside threats of a presidential veto, a Senate committee on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be finan...
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Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday he would work to ensure the United States accepts a nuclear deal that allows the shipment of nuclear fuel and technology to India.The broad nuclear deal, which was re...
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Barack Obama said Monday the nation has had enough of "triangulation and poll-driven politics," a reference to the presidency of Bill Clinton, the husband of his chief Democratic rival.Addressing a...
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