GOP steers toward hefty House majority
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For better or worse ...
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Congress' task: Act fast on spending, return home
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'That's the way they operate'
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Failure to Act
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Business, GOP leaders say tea party is over
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Adjusting their sights
WASHINGTON - "Obamacare" escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack - one handed to them by the administration itself.
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Spending stumbling block to budget deal
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Keep talking
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Conservative group presses McConnell on health law
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Obama, lawmakers square off over NSA
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration squared off with skeptical lawmakers Tuesday over efforts to terminate the government's authority to collect phone records of millions of Americans, a proposition that exposed sharp divisions among members of Congress.
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Big brother is watching
WASHINGTON - A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records - hundreds of millions of calls - in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.
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Defiant Clinton takes on officials on Libya attack
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration's handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals.
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Democrats maintain control of Senate
WASHINGTON - Democrats won a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio and Connecticut to maintain the control they've held since 2007.
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Democrats maintain control of U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the control they’ve held since 2007.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO
'A constant drip of fear'
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Applause greets Giffords' return to House
WASHINGTON - Slowly, with a sense of purpose, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords entered the House chamber Monday night to cast her first vote since she was shot in the head last January, a dramatic return that surprised colleagues. The chamber erupted in loud, sustained applause as Democrats enveloped Giffords with hugs …
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