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Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is set to receive the endorsement today of Illinois' highest-ranking Hispanic elected official, U.S. Rep.

Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is set to receive the endorsement today of Illinois' highest-ranking Hispanic elected official, U.S. Rep.

It's time to send Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York a slew of calendars. Here's why.

To say it's a big day on Capitol Hill would be an understatement. Congress rarely meets on a Saturday.

The sweeping health care overhaul package before Congress is under an 11th-hour attack over a pair of emotional issues, abortion and immigration, that are complicating Democrats' efforts to piece together the coalition they need to pass the bill.

As House Democrats move towards a weekend vote, they must resolve a series of outstanding issues, The Hill reports.

While many pundits and political analysts are musing about what Tuesday's mixed bag election results mean for Obama administration, New America Media reports that "there's another trend to watch; the surprising prominence of immigration politics." Even in states where other concerns "like small farms and forestry management" are far more immediate, ...

Democratic House leaders are pushing for a final vote on a health care reform bill scheduled for Saturday with last-minute negotiations continuing over taxpayer-funded abortions and other contentious issues.

Republican gubernatorial candidates who promised more hardline immigration stances won races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo MDPM101 By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON A House Democrat is accusing President Barack Obama of dehumanizing illegal immigrants with his hard-line stance against allowing them to benefit from pending health overhaul legislation.

The payday-lending industry hasn't lost many battles on Capitol Hill, but some Democrats hope that financial reform legislation making its way through Congress will be a good opportunity to change that.

It has the same filing dates as the Democrats and Republicans. Illinois has minor parties.

House Democrats are balking at an Obama administration plan that would put taxpayers on the hook for up to five years to dismantle any giant financial firm whose failure could repeat last year's Wall Street collapse.

Goldman is reportedly in talks with Fannie to buy millions of dollars in tax credits, but Treasury stands in the way of the deal.

Don't any of these people have jobs ? The immigration restrictionist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC said it's flooding Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and planning another round of Tea Parties, to motivate what they hope will be a huge backlash against any attempt to legalize any undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Lawmakers from both parties are attacking a White House proposal that would grant the federal government sweeping powers to wind down financial firms an authority one Democrat derided as "TARP on steroids." With Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner listening in a House hearing room, bailout-weary lawmakers are spending Thursday morning picking apart ...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday that giving the government the power to dismantle mammoth financial firms like Lehman Brothers will prevent future bailouts.

Facing bipartisan opposition, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday backed "too-big-to-fail"' legislation he crafted with a key member of Congress, arguing that the bill is critical to containing collateral damage if a financial institution collapses and must be dismantled.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, wants to bump immigration to the top of the President's agenda.

Is immigration reform back? Hoping to jump-start a major legislative drive on immigration reform in the U.S. Congress, more than 100 pro-reform House Democrats signed a letter reminding President Obama of his administration's commitment to overhaul immigration.