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Democratic Senators To BP: Suspend Dividend Payments
The Associated PressTwo Democratic senators are pressing BP to delay plans to pay shareholder dividends worth an expected $10 billion or more until the full costs for cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are calculated. Senators Charles Schumer of New York and...Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Environmental Cleanup, Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution, BP Plc
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Democrats seek corporate disclosure
The Swampby Kim Geiger and Clement Tan A group of Democratic senators today proposed a legislative solution to the controversial Supreme Court ruling that allows unlimited corporate spending on advertising and other efforts to influence election campaigns. The...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Parties and Movements, Censorship, Laws, Local Government
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Utah GOP bids bye to Bennett
The SwampSen. Robert F. Bennett becomes emotional Saturday while thanking volunteers after his re-election bid was thwarted at a state nominating convention. (Scott C. Wilson/AP) by Mark Z. Barabak SALT LAKE CITY--Utah Sen. Robert F. Bennett was defeated...Tags: Republican National Conventions, Republican Party, Activism, Barack Obama, Politics
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Blame game starts in spill hearings
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley The blood, er, oil is already flying this morning in Senate hearings into the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill - and the oil company executives haven't even testified yet. Democrats and Republicans alike on the Senate......Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Corruption, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, BP Plc, Halliburton Company
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Change is hard to come by in Senate
The Swampby Lisa Mascaro Just when the Senate was poised to change an arcane rule that let even a single senator paralyze the entire chamber, a single senator stood up and invoked another arcane rule to derail the whole thing. It......Tags: Rutgers University, Thomas Mann, Migration, Education, Harry Reid
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Obama Determined on Health Overhaul
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November. Delivering...Tags: Social Issues, Health, Entertainment, Barack Obama, Television
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Why the election of a short-term replacement senator will matter
Change of SubjectDerided as silly, goofy and unnecessary, the special election to fill out the last two months of the seat now held by temporary Sen. Roland Burris stands to make at least some difference for the winner. Smart money says the...... -
On tax reform, still a hope for bipartisanship
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelFlorida's temporary U.S. senator, Republican George LeMieux, came to Orlando this week to hold a public forum about the urgent need to deal with the nation's enormous and growing national debt problem. LeMieux took his Senate seat less than a... -
Big Political Jolts: Specter Loses, Paul Wins
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter fell to a younger and far less experienced rival in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and political novice Rand Paul rode support from tea party activists to a Republican rout in Kentucky on Tuesday, the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Republican National Conventions, Election Day, Justice System, Entertainment
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Healthcare vote: 'What elections are for'
The SwampPosted at 7 am EST, updated at 5:30 pm President Barack Obama closed a bipartisan summit on healthcare today the way he opened it, with a speech about how much the Democrats and Republicans actually agree upon -- or should......Tags: Marsha Blackburn, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, News Agency, Xavier Becerra, Corruption
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Senators: Donât Drill
Central Florida Political Pulse» Orlando Sentinel â Central Florida Political PulseBy William Gibson, Washington Bureau Florida Senator Bill Nelson and nine other coastal-state Democrats have warned fellow senators not to expand offshore oil drilling as part of legislation to diminish global warming. Their letter to negotiators who... -
Rahm Emanuel: 'A lot of heat... not light'
The Swampby Mark Silva The initial reaction to passage of an historic healthcare bill in some quarters of the country this spring is staring to make the TEA Party protests against taxes and the rest last summer look tame -- now......Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Lincoln Chafee, Iraq, Corruption, Judd Gregg
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Feb 26, 2010
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May 19, 2010
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Feb 25, 2010
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Mar 26, 2010
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