Sunday, July 17th, 2011
U.S. governors from both major parties circulated a letter at their national meeting urging Congress to raise the federal debt ceiling rather than put the nation’s credit -- and their own states -- at risk.
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin, Assistant Majority Leader in the Senate, has been named Senate Democratic co-chair of the Congressional Heart and Stroke Coalition. The American Heart Association congratulates him for taking on this important role and driving efforts to fight heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases-the nation's leading health ...
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
U.S. President Barack Obama said that the “sense of community” among members of Congress in the days after the shooting rampage that left one of their colleagues seriously wounded should inspire lawmakers from both parties to work together to solve the nation’s problems.
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Sunday, December 26th, 2010
For a combined three-quarters of a century, David Obey and Christopher Dodd walked the halls of Congress; they are both retiring this year on a high.
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Congressional Deals: Watching The Sausage Making Politico Legislators need pork to make things happen, especially in an age when chronic obstruction has so weakened the legislative process that policy breakthroughs are almost impossible. This does not excuse all kinds of deal making, nor should we ignore that deals sometimes go ...
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