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AP - For the fourth time this summer Republicans stopped the Senate from taking up wide-ranging legislation that extends tax breaks for teachers, businesses and parents and provides tax credits to an array of renewable energy entrepreneurs.
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CQPolitics.com - The indictment Tuesday of longtime Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens puts Republicans in serious jeopardy of losing his Senate seat to the Democrats this year.
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AP - A Republican senator blocking President Bush’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to South Korea lifted his objection Thursday, removing a key obstacle to the confirmation of D. Kathleen Stephens.
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CQPolitics.com - One reason why Democrats are expected to make gains in the U.S. House in the November elections is they are fielding a number of well-financed challengers to Republican incumbents.
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AP - Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain distanced himself from Sen. Ted Stevens Wednesday, a day after his longtime rival was indicted on charges of lying about more than $250,000 in gifts he got from an oil services company.
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WASHINGTON — Cindy McCain might yearn to be invisible sometimes, or at the very least, not surrounded by the Secret Service and photographers and gawking people. The scrutiny seems too much to bear. Something about that half-apologetic manner. … - By LIBBY COPELAND The Washington Post
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AFP - The US Republican Party reeled Wednesday from the indictment of its longest-serving senator, which dealt a fresh blow to its hope of limiting expected large-scale losses in congressional elections.
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CQPolitics.com - In the midst of a hard-fought tough campaign to win a second term representing North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole has opted out of the party pep rally that is the national convention.
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BERLIN — Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, of Illinois, on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago. … - By DAVID ESPO and DAVID RISING The Associated Press
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DENVER (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for “the audacity of hopelessness” in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated. …
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