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			<title><![CDATA[ Fed's response may make withdrawal tricky ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Federal Reserve has over the decades viewed its independence from political influence as crucial for its ability to guide the U.S. economy.
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			<dc:creator>Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Initially waved off, Hispanic advocates jump into health debate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After trying to carefully balance their interests in health-care reform and immigration, the nation's Hispanic lawmakers and largest advocacy groups are scrambling to develop a strategy to counter what they see as efforts to shortchange immigrants in health bills on Capitol Hill.
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			<dc:creator>Krissah Thompson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dodd's reform plan takes aim at the Fed ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping regulatory reform bill that would strip the Federal Reserve of nearly all of its power to oversee banks, setting up a possible clash with the Obama administration, which has argued for the central bank to play a pivotal r...
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			<dc:creator>David Cho, Brady Dennis and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Legislation by Senator Dodd would overhaul banking regulators ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A regulatory bill that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) introduced Tuesday would create three agencies aimed at policing threats to the economy, preserving banks in good health and protecting borrowers from abuse.
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			<dc:creator>Binyamin Appelbaum and Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned President Obama's nominee to lead the nation's airport security agency Tuesday about a censure he received from the FBI in 1988.
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			<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bill Clinton urges Senate Democrats to quickly pass health-care reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Former president Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to resolve their differences with a health-care bill and pass an overhaul as soon as possible. Summoning the lessons of his own history with health-care reform, Clinton warned, "The worst thing to do is nothing."
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			<dc:creator>Shailagh Murray</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Washington Sketch: Globe may not be big enough for One World Government ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon.
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			<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some Democrats to fight abortion amendment in health bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama and Senate Democrats sought on Sunday to generate momentum from the House's passage of health-care legislation, even as a new hurdle emerged: profound dismay among abortion-rights supporters over antiabortion provisions inserted into the House bill.
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			<dc:creator>Alec MacGillis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fort Hood suspect's links to imam under scrutiny ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal investigators are examining possible links between Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal M. Hasan and an American-born imam who U.S. authorities say has become a supporter and leading promoter of al-Qaeda since leaving a Northern Virginia mosque, officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ A vote to make or break a career ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When Republican Anh "Joseph" Cao won a stunning victory in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans last December, the GOP was so thrilled that House Minority Leader John A. Boehner sent a memo to his colleagues headlined "The Future is Cao."
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			<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Health bill compromises won over holdouts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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So much for the political power of the public option.
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane and Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pawlenty's forays demonstrate need for polish ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, after making a series of smart strategic moves over the past few months in advance of an expected run for president in 2012, has struggled on the national stage in the past few weeks.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Republicans seek a path to revival ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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One year after hitting bottom in the aftermath of President Obama's election, Republicans have taken their first concrete steps toward recovery. But they remain an embattled and divided force, facing an electorate still skeptical about their capacity to govern and embroiled in a struggle between ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Democrats promise health-care victory as Republicans remain opposed to bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. optimistic about new nuclear weapons treaty with Russia ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After months of negotiations with Russia, Obama administration officials are hopeful about a breakthrough -- possibly this week -- that would enable the two sides to sign a successor to their most extensive nuclear weapons treaty before it expires Dec. 5.
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			<title><![CDATA[ DHS readies plan to track foreigners flying from U.S. ]]></title>
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The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing a proposal to collect fingerprints or eye scans from all foreign travelers at U.S. airports as they leave the country, officials said, a costly screening program that airlines have opposed.
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			<title><![CDATA[ GOP senators want to query attorney general on reporter-shield legislation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want to question Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. about his support of a compromise reporters' shield law before they vote on it, according to congressional sources.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Republicans plan to vote unanimously against health-care measure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The 177 Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to unanimously oppose health-care legislation that would constitute the biggest expansion of insurance to Americans in decades, illustrating the huge divide that remains between the two parties on key issues and setting up a major debate in...
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			<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democrats round up health bill votes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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House Democratic leaders pushed with mounting confidence Friday toward a historic vote on expanding the nation's health-care system, and President Obama joined an intense last-minute lobbying campaign to pick up the last few votes needed to secure the measure's passage.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Abortion, immigration are factors in health-care reform vote ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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House Democratic leaders were struggling Thursday to contain uprisings on the hot-button issues of abortion and immigration that have left them little margin for error as they attempt to push through a massive health-care reform bill this weekend.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate Democrats disregard GOP boycott to pass greenhouse gas emissions bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Disregarding a Republican boycott, Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed legislation Thursday that would impose a mandatory curb on greenhouse gas emissions.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Environmental groups debate new tack in climate-change fight ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MANHATTAN, KAN. -- A curious debate has broken out among American environmental groups, as the Senate balkily starts to focus on the threat of climate change.
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			<title><![CDATA[ As GOP celebrates victories, ideological battles between moderates and conservatives remain ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A rebounding Republican Party is savoring victories in two states that President Obama won last year, but as it tries to build momentum toward what GOP Chairman Michael S. Steele called a "Republican renaissance," it faces troubling ideological fissures within its ranks over how best to reclaim p...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democrats debate Obama agenda's impact on Democratic Party ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Democrats on Capitol Hill began a nervous debate Wednesday about the course President Obama has set for their party, with some questioning whether they should emphasize job creation over some of the more ambitious items on the president's agenda.
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate trio to pursue still more climate policy talks ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=2727591fce19c1aab43144fea7881b0c</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Even before a Senate committee could begin marking up the "Kerry-Boxer" climate bill, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday a separate track of negotiations over climate policy that makes his original bill look somewhat irrelevant.
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House leaders prepare for rare Saturday vote on health-care bill ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=50f2e5a073cbc031ada95fe0284c0d37</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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House leaders put in motion the machinery to hold a rare Saturday vote on the most far-reaching expansion of the health-care system in more than 40 years.
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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pick to be U.N. point man on financial reform seeks to reassure lawmakers ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=87118fb08f2e1c8e8c7ae2745334f4ec</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Jide J. Zeitlin, a former Goldman Sachs executive nominated to be the U.S. point man on financial reform at the United Nations, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee Wednesday that financial and legal troubles he faced as a private investor would have no bearing on his ability to impose fi...
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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