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			<title><![CDATA[ Former Lawmakers and Congressional Staffers Hired to Lobby on Health Care ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress in hopes of influencing their old bosses and colleagues, according to an analysis of lobbying disclosures and other records. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Dan Eggen and Kimberly Kindy</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Compromise Is Key to Health-Care Legislation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ For the next five weeks, Congress will attempt the daunting feat of turning a mishmash of half-written proposals into health-care reform legislation that can pass the House and the Senate before the August recess. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Q and A on the Climate Bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:21:01 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The climate bill approved by the House last month started out as an idea -- fight global warming -- and wound up looking like an unabridged dictionary. It runs to more than 1,400 pages, swollen with loopholes and giveaways meant to win over un-green industries and wary legislators. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Advocacy Groups Should Halt Attacks on Moderate Democrats, Obama Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama, strategizing yesterday with congressional leaders about health-care reform, complained that liberal advocacy groups ought to drop their attacks on Democratic lawmakers and devote their energy to promoting passage of comprehensive legislation.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/congress;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=286113616592" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/congress;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=286113616592" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Ceci Connolly</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama, Party Tout Lower Figure for Health Reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Senate Democrats and President Obama, trying to assuage fears about the cost of health reform, yesterday touted new estimates that put the price tag for one bill at $611 billion over the next decade. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Ceci Connolly</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ McCain, Feingold Team Up Again Over FEC ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Seven years after their landmark campaign finance legislation became law, Sens. John McCain and Russell Feingold are reuniting under the banner of spending reform at a time when restrictions have come under fire both in the courts and at the embattled Federal Election Commission. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Dan Eggen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sanford Resisting Pressure From Fellow Republicans to Resign ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford defied calls for his resignation yesterday from GOP leaders, insisting he will remain in office even as his political fortunes dimmed in the wake of his admission that he secretly traveled abroad to meet a mistress. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Recriminations Over Sarah Palin Mask Deeper GOP Troubles ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ On the same day Republicans surrendered a symbolically significant seat in the Senate, the Sarah Palin wars erupted again inside the party. Leaks followed by trash-talking followed by recriminations.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/congress;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=286113617325" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/congress;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=286113617325" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Dan Balz and Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Other Women ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:16:58 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ It seemed like Mark Sanford had slowly and painfully let it all hang out. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ After Call From Senator Inouye's Office, Small Hawaii Bank Got U.S. Aid ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kiel and Binyamin Appelbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sen. Byrd Is Home After 6-Week Stay In Hospital ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) was released from the hospital yesterday after a six-week stay, his office announced, allowing the longest-serving senator in U.S. history to spend the Fourth of July weekend at home. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Ben Pershing</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Minnesota Supreme Court Declares Franken Winner in U.S. Senate Race ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared comedian-turned-politician Al Franken the winner of the state's U.S. Senate race, ending an eight-month-long election saga and giving Democrats a 60-seat majority that theoretically would allow them to block GOP filibusters.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/politics/congress;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=286113618275" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/politics/congress;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=286113618275" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Panel Suggests Extending Intelligence Oversight ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has approved legislation intended to strengthen congressional oversight of sensitive intelligence matters, including covert operations. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Extending]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Oversight]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ideological Diversity Among Democrats Means No Free Pass for Obama ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=479cb5a153073978be054b8f7e3e6c46</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ After a series of early and relatively easy victories on Capitol Hill, the White House appears certain to face a more difficult road when Congress returns to work next week. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Shailagh Murray and Dan Balz</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Among]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Means]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[No]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Free]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pass]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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