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Palin: McCain has 'seen the light'
The Swampby Mike Memoli Jim Oliphant and I wrote in the Tribune papers today about how Tuesday's results show how the tea party movement continues to confound expectations just as the political establishment gets ready to write them off. But the......Tags: Sarah Palin, Robert Bennett, John McCain
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GOP: Growing gov't with health care
The Swampby Mark Silva As the Senate nears a vote on advancing to debate over health-care, Republicans are holding ground against a bill which they insist will only grow the government and raise taxes. They don't accept the $848-billion price tag......Tags: Government Health Care, Employers, Medicaid, Drugs and Medicines, National Government
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Senate approves 7 Obama nominees
The Swampby Jim Tankersley The Senate quickly confirmed seven of President Obama's cabinet nominees this afternoon, mere hours after the Inauguration - but it left many more, including Hillary Clinton, to wait at least another day. Among those winning approval by....Tags: United States, Timothy Geithner, Arne Duncan, National Government, Bill Clinton
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Health care: 2010 elections start here
The Swampby Mark Silva With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a health-care bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined: For the Democrats, in......Tags: Government Health Care, Barack Obama, National Government, Local Elections, Government
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Question of the Day: Is it good to have one Senator?
Spin CycleHillary Clinton reports that she has been sworn in as Sec State following her confirmation, and has officially resigned her Senate seat in letters to Harry Reid and Gov. Paterson, per Tom Brune of our Washington bureau. So, with......Tags: Hillary Clinton
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A Republican leader with a JFK portrait?
The Swampby Frank James Our one-time Tribune colleague Naftali Bendavid has a good piece on The Wall Street Journal's website on how congressional Republicans are trying to navigate the new Washington dynamics of a Democratic president in the White House and......Tags: United States, Government, John F. Kennedy, Mitch McConnell, National Government
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Health-care debate: Senate salvos start
The Swampby Michael Muskal The Senate began deliberations on its version of a healthcare overhaul today, with Democrats searching for a bill that will be supported by 60 senators. Returning from the Thanksgiving holiday, the Senate slowly began the debate on......Tags: Blanche Lincoln, Celebrities and Health Issues, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Caroline Kennedy out of Senate pick
The Swampby Geraldine Baum and Mark Z. Barabak Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of America's most fabled Democratic dynasty, abruptly dropped her bid for a U.S. Senate seat early today, standing aside even though she was widely considered the front-runner to...Tags: Edward M. Kennedy, National Government, Local Elections, Parliament, Government
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Schumer: Who was he for? Who was he against?
Spin CycleSuddenly, now that Kirsten Gillibrand is the choice, everyone seems to know that Chuck Schumer was the power behind Kirsten Gillibrand. Except, no one was saying that 48 hours ago, when we didn't know if Gillibrand was the choice.......Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Kirsten Gillibrand
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Blagojevich: 'Anti-Nixon,' soon jobless
The Swampby Mark Silva Gov. Rod Blagojevich, capping a two-day whirlwind tour of national broadcast and cable television networks while the state legislature back home is impeaching him, suggested that he, unlike the late Richard Nixon, wants all of the...Tags: Illinois, Barack Obama, Prosecution, Bleep (euphemism), Local Elections
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Burris borrows a senior aide from Reid
The Swampby Jill Zuckman Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), who arrived in Washington without any staff to back him up, has just snagged his first high-profile hire. Darrel Thompson, senior adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, will become Burris's chief of........Tags: United States, Parliament, Illinois, Roland Burris, Upper House
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Obama, Congress: Stimulus dance
The Swampby Mark Silva They could have danced all night - the Alvin Ailey dance company, that is - at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where the Obama family, the president, the first lady and their two daughters, spent......Tags: Government, Max Baucus, Barack Obama, Patty Murray, National Government
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