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August 6, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama praised the bill shortly after it was passed, calling it a 'groundbreaking piece of legislation…
August 5, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation long sought by Democrats to save the jobs of up to 300,000 teachers, police and other…
August 5, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have harshly criticized Kagan, 50, as a political activist who would be unable to put aside…
August 4, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill would extend programs enacted in last year's stimulus law to help preserve the jobs of…
August 4, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people…
August 3, 2010
VIDEO - The group wants Tom Vilsack to honor his own department's zero tolerance policy against discrimination...
July 28, 2010
EDISON, N.J. (AP) - The bill in question is designed to help small businesses get the capital they need to…
July 28, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill also eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum for first-time possession of crack...
July 27, 2010
The head of the Virginia Conference of the NAACP lashed out at Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) Monday, three days after…
July 26, 2010
VIDEO - While the credits at the end of the video bill Alvin Greene as the director, producer and editor,…
July 23, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Jim Webb wrote an op-ed column that said a 'plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized…
July 23, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - GOP Sen. Richard Lugar, advised U.S. legislators to reconsider sending money to Haiti if reforms are…
July 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A measure creating a $30 billion fund to help community banks increase lending to small businesses overcame…
July 22, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The veteran who has called himself an "American hero" was considered a lackluster service member at…
July 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no Republican was willing to back a comprehensive energy bill, a…
July 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - At issue are jobless payments averaging $309 a week for almost 5 million people whose 26 weeks…
July 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats broke a GOP filibuster safely and set the stage for a vote Wednesday on legislation…
July 20, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The vote was a modest victory for Obama and Democrats, whose more ambitious hopes for a jobs…
July 20, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elena Kagan is facing the first vote on her nomination to the Supreme Court before a Senate…
July 20, 2010
OPINION - Either these politicians in Congress do not understand the depths of people's pain, or they simply don't care...