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The Senate voted on Saturday to begin full debate on major health care legislation, propelling President Obama's top domestic initiative over a crucial, preliminary hurdle in a formidable display of muscle-flexing by the Democratic majority.

Connecticut's Republican chairman Christopher Healy made a plea to State Senator Sam Caligiuri: please run for the House instead of the Senate.

Influential United States Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, the new Democratic co-chair of the reconstituted US Senate India [ Images ] Caucus, who took over from the erstwhile Senator and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [ Images ], in welcoming Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh [ Images ] to Washington, has said, "That President Obama ...

This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise afford.

The Courant's Edmund H. Mahony reports the following: Buried in debate over the Obama administration's decision to try conspirators in the Sept.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a sweeping health care bill Wednesday that would expand health insurance coverage to 30 million more Americans at an estimated cost of $849 billion over 10 years.

Superstar Billy Graham, aka Eldridge Wayne Coleman, admitted steriod use in 1992.

Advocacy groups and employers expressed concerns about an emergency paid sick leave bill designed to help workers who are stricken with the H1N1 flu at a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday, November 17.

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-CT, on Tuesday released an 1,136-page draft bill for sweeping financial regulatory reform that will create several new protection agencies, increase regulation of credit agencies and derivatives, and alter the role played by the U.S. Federal Reserve in the financial system.

With the swine flu fears raging and the seasonal flu supposedly on its way, the City Council this week will take up a measure that its proponent hope will keep New Yorkers healthier in the face of these illnesses.

Proponents of legislation requiring many Connecticut companies to offer paid sick leave have been energized by similar federal efforts triggered in part by the swine flu outbreak.

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee will unveil Tuesday his draft legislation to reform regulation of financial markets.

The Federal Reserve faces the biggest blows to its authority and independence in five decades under legislation championed by its lead overseer in the U.S. Senate.

U.S. Sen Christopher Dodd and his supporters have long maintained that the best way to bolster his sliding popularity is to focus on his public policy work.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., announces a financial reform package, Tuesday, Nov.

Connecticut Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd speaks at Commercial Maintenance, Inc., in West Hartford, Conn.

Nearly half of all American workers do not have paid sick leave, and half of these are more likely to go to work feeling unwell or send an ill child to school rather than take an unpaid day off.

Rob Simmons would beat both his GOP rivals and Democratic incumbent Sen. Chris Dodd, according to a new Q poll released this morning.

Americans infected by the H1N1 flu virus would be guaranteed paid sick leave under emergency legislation U.S. Senator Chris Dodd plans to unveil on Tuesday in response to the swine flu pandemic.

Nov. 11 -- U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about his proposal to overhaul financial regulation, including a measure to strip the Federal Reserve of some of its authority.