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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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			<dc:creator>Dan Balz</dc:creator>
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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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Hours after President Obama exhorted Democratic lawmakers to "answer the call of history," the House hit an unprecedented milestone on the path to health-care reform, approving a trillion-dollar package late Saturday that seeks to overhaul private insurance practices and guarantee comprehensive a...
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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In paper industry tax credit, lawmakers see way to help pay for health reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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House Democrats might use a swig of "black liquor" to help health-care reform go down.
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			<dc:creator>Steven Mufson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ DHS readies plan to track foreigners flying from U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The talk shows ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:
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			<title><![CDATA[ Grandiose rhetoric pushes details aside ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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On a day of debate that highlighted the partisan divide in Congress as never before, Democrats and Republicans in the House agreed on one point: The health-care reform vote facing them Saturday was one for the ages.
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			<dc:creator>Alec MacGillis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama delivers remarks prior to the House health-care vote ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:19:16 EST</pubDate>
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PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Good afternoon, everybody.  I just want to say a few words about the landmark vote that the House of Representatives is poised to take today -- a vote that can bring us one step closer to making real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Inquiry begins into motive of shootings suspect Hasan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Investigators on Friday bore down on the possible motives of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood gunman, to determine whether his actions were driven by stress related to his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan or to an Islamist political ideology.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson, Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu</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[ 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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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. is reaching out to East Asia's powerful nations ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Ever since taking office, President Obama has signaled that the United States wants to improve relations with the powerhouse nations of East Asia, and he'll put his personal imprint on that when he travels to the region for the first time next week.
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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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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama delivers remarks from the Rose Garden on the Fort Hood shooting ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:41:19 EST</pubDate>
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SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA  [*] OBAMA: Good morning. I want to begin by offering an update on the tragedy that took place yesterday at Fort Hood.  This morning I met with FBI Director Mueller and the relevant agencies to discuss their ongoing investigation into what caused one individual to...
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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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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House votes to extend jobless benefits, expand home buyers' tax credit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Congress gave final approval Thursday for an additional $24 billion to help the jobless and support the housing market as climbing unemployment poses a growing liability for elected officials.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rampage kills 12, wounds 31 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The gunshots came out of the blue. An Army psychiatrist, trained to treat soldiers under stress, allegedly opened fire Thursday in a crowded medical building at Fort Hood, Tex. When the assault ended minutes later, the attack had become what is believed to be the largest mass shooting ever to occ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Corrections ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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-- A Digest item in the Nov. 5 A-section misstated the number of Obama judicial nominees who have been confirmed by the Senate. The correct number is five, not three. The article also said that the other nominees have been caught in anonymous holds and filibuster threats from Republicans; GOP...
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			<title><![CDATA[ No one said freedom was pretty ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The call to arms went out last week. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have "anti-American" views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and urged Americans to come to Washington to protest: "We need to pay a house call on Nancy Pel...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate Democrats disregard GOP boycott to pass greenhouse gas emissions bill ]]></title>
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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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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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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Conservative activists gather on Capitol Hill to protest House health-care bill ]]></title>
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With the stage set for a historic House vote on health-care reform this weekend, an estimated 10,000 conservative activists descended on Capitol Hill on Thursday for a campaign-style rally in a last-ditch effort to defeat a bill they demonized as "Pelosi-Care."
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BANGKOK -- After a rare trip by high-level U.S. diplomats to Burma, there was little indication from either nation Thursday about how the Obama administration's overture of engagment had been received.
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A federal bailout of AIG last year attracted angry protesters who for weeks gathered outside the insurance giant's headquarters in New York and stalked company executives at their homes.
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:42:44 EST</pubDate>
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SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA  [*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.  I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated...
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama delivers remarks at White House-Tribal Nations conference ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:36:18 EST</pubDate>
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SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA  [*] OBAMA: Thank you.  (APPLAUSE)  Thank you so much. Thank you.  Everybody, please, have a seat. Thank you.  (APPLAUSE)  Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.  (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)  Thank you so much. Thank you. Please, everybody, have a seat.  T...
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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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			<title><![CDATA[ Michael Steele on the election ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The things that pop out of his mouth are frequently beyond the comprehension of mortals.
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			<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House leaders prepare for rare Saturday vote on health-care bill ]]></title>
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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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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate votes to renew tax credit for first-time home buyers ]]></title>
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The Senate voted Wednesday to renew the government's $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers through the first six months of next year as part of a broader bill designed to extend unemployment benefits.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate trio to pursue still more climate policy talks ]]></title>
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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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			<title><![CDATA[ Inability to lower taxes helped cost Gov. Corzine his job ]]></title>
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TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- In the end, Republican Chris Christie was propelled into the New Jersey governorship by the same force that pushed him so far ahead in early polls in the year-long campaign: angry, widespread resentment over the state's finances, especially the property taxes that incumbent Jo...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Republican victories in Va., N.J. hinged on economic worries ]]></title>
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Voters worried about jobs and the shaky economy helped drive Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, according to exit polls, adding political urgency to Democratic efforts to combat the nation's surging unemployment rate.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Palin book tour to start Nov. 18 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:42:57 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin's book tour is a gift for her base.
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House tries to shrug off Democratic election losses  ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama's top advisers closed ranks around their boss Wednesday, declaring themselves unconcerned by Tuesday night's Democratic losses as they attempted to insulate the president from any political damage to his reputation and his legislative agenda.
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama delivers remarks at education event with Education Secretary Arne Duncan ]]></title>
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SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] SECRETARY DUNCAN: Well, we're thrilled to be here and this is a school that's getting better and better, and you guys are working really, really hard. And we've been lucky. We have a President here who has got a tough, tough ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ In New Jersey, Christie beats incumbent Corzine in governor's race ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:33:58 EST</pubDate>
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EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. --  Republican Chris Christie, who decisively defeated incumbent Democrat Jon S. Corzine Tuesday to become New Jersey's next governor, said he was prepared to face the economic turmoil that propelled him to victory and soon will be first on the list of state problems he hopes...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gubernatorial contests serve as warning to Democrats ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey delivered clear warnings for the Democrats.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democrat wins hard-fought N.Y. House special election ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:27:59 EST</pubDate>
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Democrat Bill Owens took a surprising victory in a special election Tuesday in Upstate New York, winning a House seat that Republicans had controlled since 1872 and, in the process, potentially deepening a split that emerged within the GOP during the campaign.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some experts worry that cost controls in health-care reform are too cautious ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Democrats in Congress are embracing the spirit of President Obama's call to slow the runaway rise of health-care costs but are shying away from some of the most aggressive techniques for achieving that.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Washington Sketch: Republicans give global-warming hearing the cold shoulder ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The senators' nameplates were lined up neatly on the green felt. A row of black leather chairs awaited senatorial bottoms. The microphones were live and the water iced.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate moderates wield influence to seek changes to health-care reform ]]></title>
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Moderate lawmakers are exerting their outsize influence in the divided Senate to secure changes to health-care reform legislation, potentially adding more delays to a bill that has already missed several announced deadlines.
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			<title><![CDATA[ German Chancellor Merkel urges U.S. to act on climate change ]]></title>
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration Tuesday to take bold steps to address global warming, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with a climate bill.
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			<title><![CDATA[ In New Jersey, Christie beats incumbent Corzine in governor's race ]]></title>
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EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. --  Chris Christie defeated Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Tuesday, handing Republicans a rare victory in a state that Barack Obama carried last year by 15 percentage points.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. hope dims for high-level Israeli-Palestinian talks over state ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CAIRO -- The Obama administration has concluded that an early resumption of high-level negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over a Palestinian state is unlikely in the near future -- an acknowledgment that it has fallen short, for now, on one of its major initial foreign policy goals.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Small public firms win audit exemption with White House help ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A House committee, under pressure from the White House, voted Tuesday to exempt small public companies from part of a federal law designed to prevent financial fraud, despite objections from regulators and key Democratic leaders.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dodd to go alone with draft for financial reform ]]></title>
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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) plans to circulate a draft bill of sweeping financial reforms as soon as next week that breaks with the Obama administration and the House on two key issues, officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Policies sought to add jobs without piling on the deficit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- With the nation's unemployment rate at its highest point in 26 years and projected to rise, the Obama administration is intensifying its search for policies that can stoke job creation without adding significantly to the nation's crippling budget deficit.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Yorkers reelect Bloomberg to a third term as mayor ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:25 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg won reelection Tuesday, giving him the third term he began seeking last year in campaigning for a change to the city's term-limits law.
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			<dc:creator>Robin Shulman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Karzai is wild card for U.S. strategy in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As the dust settles from Afghanistan's election, President Hamid Karzai's emergence as the victor by default cements the central dilemma facing President Obama as he decides whether to escalate the U.S. involvement in the war there.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson and Rajiv Chandrasekaran</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Corzine's fate in New Jersey seen as tied to Obama ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey's candidates for governor darted through the state on the last day of a campaign being billed as a vote on President Obama's popularity.
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			<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. sees shortage of ammunition ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Politics digest: Health care, climate change ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After months of criticizing Democrats' health-care proposals without offering one of their own, House Republicans are preparing to unveil a reform bill this week to compete with the majority's ideas.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some Democrats concerned over abortion provision in health bill ]]></title>
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While House leaders are moving toward a vote on health-care legislation by the end of the week, enough Democrats are threatening to oppose the measure over the issue of abortion to create a question about its passage.
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			<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Orthodox Christian leader Bartholomew in Washington ]]></title>
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An unusual environmental lobbyist will be making the rounds this week on Capitol Hill: the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book World: Reviews of 'Sarah From Alaska' and 'The Persecution of Sarah Palin' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two new books -- hitting stores just weeks before Palin's own "Going Rogue" memoir will come out to record-setting advance orders -- attempt to explain why the hockey mom from Wasilla, Alaska, drives both detractors and fans alike to something approaching insanity.
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			<dc:creator>Nick Gillespie</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Maine set to vote on gay marriage ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:59 EST</pubDate>
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Maine residents will decide Tuesday whether to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage, an effort that has succeeded in every state where it has been put before voters.
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			<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Roland Hedley, world-class Twit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:10:58 EST</pubDate>
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Interviewing new mistress after the broadcast tonight. Send me your questions.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ President Obama delivers remarks at meeting with Economic Recovery Advisory Board ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:43:25 EST</pubDate>
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SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA  [*] (JOINED IN PROGRESS)  OBAMA: ... another Great Depression. We have pulled the economy back from the brink. We got good news last week showing that for the first time in over a year, the economy was actually growing once again. And we have seen some other indi...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate climate bill faces challenges ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legislation, there is al...
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Shared interests define Obama's world ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=d2dc08481a596a2e047a9c551d034d34</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama is applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side, constructing appeals to shared interests and attempting to bring the government's conduct in line with its ideals.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Monday Fix: Five House seats that may change parties in 2010 ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=840e8890fd240c040ad6b1717f267a12</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Let's talk about next November: The House playing field for 2010 continues to expand, as Republicans sense opportunity in the national landscape and Democrats look to stay on offense in some corners of the country in order to build a bulwark against a possible wave election.
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			<dc:creator>Chris Cillizza</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Politics digest ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In a final campaign swing on behalf of the only governor seeking reelection this fall, President Obama on Sunday pitched New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine's bid as a key component for the White House to make good on its political promises.
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Document sheds light on ethics probe in Congress ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After years of criticism that congressional lawmakers were reluctant to investigate their colleagues, the disclosure in recent days of a sensitive document from the House ethics committee offers the contradictory portrait of a panel actively pursuing a range of probes even as Democrats under scru...
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Maine to vote on same-sex marriage ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Maine residents will decide Tuesday whether to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage, an effort that has succeeded in every state where it has been put before voters.
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			<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Patrick Gaspard: President Obama's low-key political director ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=3af77e91d3f5097a691fd351d8ecd7bb</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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During the past year, Patrick Gaspard, the low-profile White House political director, kept showing up in the middle of high-profile predicaments.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Jason Horowitz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Republican Scozzafava pulls out of House race in New York ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=09497375d916b8523c4c93155833ad90</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- The moderate Republican nominee for a vacant U.S. House seat here unexpectedly withdrew from the race Saturday, bowing to a revolt led by conservative activists that badly split the national GOP leadership and is likely to influence the shape of the party heading into next ye...
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			<dc:creator>Karl Vick and Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Karzai challenger prepares to drop out of presidential race ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=1f15fd266beba8306d9cea1f0ccd0eed</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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KABUL -- The top challenger to President Hamid Karzai in the Nov. 7 election prepared Saturday to withdraw from the race, complicating President Obama's deliberations over whether to expand the war effort in Afghanistan at a critical moment.
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			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable and Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Take ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=86353e88faf427298096e158536ec373</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Significant battles sometimes take place in obscure places. Until the past month, New York's 23rd Congressional District was known mostly for its cold climate, its history of electing Republicans to the House and its relatively moderate politics.
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			<dc:creator>Dan Balz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Health-care reform likely to be shaped in statehouses ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The debate over whether to let states opt out of any government-run health insurance plan overlooks a key facet of the health-care measures being assembled in Congress: When Washington is done, the shape of any new health-care system is likely to be finalized in Lansing and Boise and Baton Rouge.
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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery and Peter Slevin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ex-N.Y. Senate leader faces corruption trial ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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ALBANY, N.Y. --  For more than a decade, state Senate Republican leader Joseph L. Bruno was a top power broker in New York. The backslapping ex-boxer was gruffly unapologetic over the millions in pork projects that he grabbed for his upstate district.
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			<dc:creator>Michael Virtanen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Talk Shows ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ GOP Chairman Michael Steele predicts a Republican comeback ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As they campaigned together across Virginia on Thursday and Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele praised Robert F. McDonnell, the state's GOP gubernatorial candidate, as an innovative leader.
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			<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mark Esper ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Editor and publisher of the Silverton (Colo.) Standard
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Congress, a call to review internal cybersecurity policies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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House leaders on Friday called for an "immediate and comprehensive assessment" of congressional cybersecurity policies, a day after an embarrassing data breach that led to the disclosure of details of confidential ethics investigations.
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and Carol D. Leonnig</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House, senators agree on media shield law ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The White House and key senators have reached a compromise on a shield law to protect journalists who refuse to reveal their sources, but they limited its application in cases involving national security and federal criminal prosecutions.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ ACORN video creates new conservative star ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Andrew Breitbart blew into Washington recently for what amounted to a victory lap.
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			<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democrats challenged on cost of health bill ]]></title>
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are challenging an assertion by House leaders that their new health-care package comes in under President Obama's spending limit of $900 billion over the next decade. The true cost of the measure, the GOP argues, is more than $1 trillion.
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House releases six-month log of visitors ]]></title>
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During his first six months in office, according to information released Friday, President Obama met frequently at the White House with labor leaders, senators, lobbyists, business executives and liberal activists as he sought to revive the faltering economy, plan health-care reform, confirm a Su...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Deal may pave way for Zelaya's return as Honduran president ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Honduras's deeply fractured political forces signed an agreement Friday that could reinstate the president ousted in a coup four months ago and end a crisis whose impact has spread far beyond the poor banana-growing country, igniting partisan battles in Washington and threatening to polarize the ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ House set to pass resolution denouncing U.N.'s Gaza report ]]></title>
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday is poised to pass a nonbinding resolution condemning a controversial U.N. report on alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that has become a major complication in Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's diplomacy in the Middle East this weekend.
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			<title><![CDATA[ As change threatens, small banks wield powerful lobby ]]></title>
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Hundreds of small-town bankers had converged on Washington for their annual conference five months ago when Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, addressing them in the chandeliered ballroom of the Grand Hyatt, gave notice that the financial industry was about to change.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ethics committee looking at Jackson's pursuit of Senate seat ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:15:02 EDT</pubDate>
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The House ethics committee announced in September that it was investigating whether Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) acted improperly in pursuit of an appointment to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by President Obama.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Document updated ethics panel on since-dropped case of former congressman Feeney ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:33:56 EDT</pubDate>
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An ethics committee weekly report obtained by The Washington Post refers to the status of a federal investigation into former congressman Tom Feeney (R-Fla.), whose case was dropped by the Justice Department after the document was created.
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			<title><![CDATA[ House subcommittee created to investigate Rep. Maxine Waters ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=5f75d2062ef038a34952acbfe68fa9a9</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:41:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The House ethics committee announced Thursday afternoon that it had voted to establish a subcommittee to investigate Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who is under scrutiny for her ties to a bank that received federal bailout money.
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			<dc:creator>Ben Pershing </dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama remarks on small businesses and health insurance reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Please, have a seat.  Before I begin, I want to just acknowledge two people who are working extraordinarily hard on behalf of small businesses.  First of all, the administrator of our Small Business Administration, Karen Mills, is here.  (Applause.)
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dismissal recommended for earmark ethics allegation against Rep. Bishop ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:56:02 EDT</pubDate>
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Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D-Ga.) has a letter from the Office of Congressional Ethics saying that it would recommend dismissal of allegations against him involving an earmark he requested for a program that employed some of his relatives.
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			<title><![CDATA[ House ethics panel looked at staff sharing by Sanchez sisters ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=3b8fd4d9c8241f1ee39ead2a687ff708</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A document from the House ethics committee lists an examination into whether the chamber's rules were violated when Rep. Linda T. Sanchez put three legislative aides to her fellow-congresswoman sister on her payroll after an embezzlement scheme had left Rep. Loretta Sanchez's office short of fund...
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			<dc:creator>Scott Higham and Alice Crites</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House ethics panel reviewed 2005 Harman conversation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The House ethics committee initiated a review this year of a 2005 conversation that Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) had with an Israeli operative in which she discussed winning help for her bid to become chairman of the House intelligence committee, according to newly available documents.
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rangel: Ethics talks unrelated to personal finance issues ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=f209d0bfdfb06742cb807ff92dc2d653</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:37:57 EDT</pubDate>
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House ethics committee investigators have interviewed Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee whose personal finances have been under investigation for more than a year, a committee document from July reveals.
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House committee investigating Rep. Laura Richardson ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:58 EDT</pubDate>
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The House ethics committee is investigating whether Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.) failed to disclose information about a controversy last year in which her home was put into foreclosure and sold. The sale was invalidated after Richardson said she had not known of the sale and had previously re...
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:58 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Contributions to Rep. Barton's foundation probed ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:58 EDT</pubDate>
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The Office of Congressional Ethics reviewed contributions made by corporations to a foundation created by Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to an internal document from the House ethics committee -- a separate investigative b...
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			<title><![CDATA[ House ethics subcommittee probed lawmakers' trips ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:56:02 EDT</pubDate>
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After receiving a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics, the House ethics committee announced in June that it would create an investigative subcommittee to look into "officially connected travel in 2007 and 2008 that was sponsored, funded or organized by an organization known as Carib ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ethics office reviewed tax records of four House members ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:06:52 EDT</pubDate>
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The Office of Congressional Ethics reviewed the tax records of at least four House members this year, after news reports suggested that they had received tax credits from Maryland for declaring their homes in the state to be their primary residences. The office appears to have ended its analysis ...
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