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In a strategy session with allied congressional leaders, President Barack Obama expressed concern that some liberal groups were targeting moderate to conservative Democrats, like Louisiana Sen.

President Barack Obama, strategizing Friday with congressional leaders about health-care reform, complained that liberal advocacy groups ought to drop their attacks on Democratic lawmakers and devote their energy to promoting passage of comprehensive legislation.

WASHINGTON - After Democrat Al Franken's victory in the disputed U.S. Senate race in Minnesota, the Republican Party plans to pursue a two-pronged strategy, seeking to pull moderate Democrats away from President Barack Obama on key votes and blaming Democrats for the results of any policy failure in Washington.

Former Sen. Norm Coleman conceded defeat in his eight-month recount battle after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled former comedian Al Franken the winner of the state's contested Senate seat, giving Democrats a 60-vote majority supermajority that could make Senate Republicans largely irrelevant.

The federal Department of Health and Hospitals is giving Louisiana $411.7 million in Recovery Act grants to 24 community health centers around Louisiana.

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared former comedian Al Franken the winner of the state's US Senate race, ending an eight-month election saga and giving Democrats a 60-seat majority that would theoretically allow them to block Republican filibusters.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said today news of the GM-Shreveport plant closure is 'extremely disappointing.' "The news that GM will close its Shreveport plants by the summer of 2012 is unexpected ... Considering the huge sums of taxpayer dollars that have been allocated to prop up the Detroit-based auto companies, the hard-working ...

Who would have thunk...the congressmen of the low state of Louisiana would have voted against H.R.2454? Senator Landrieu will have no choice, lest she loses her perch.

The U.S. House and Senate are taking different approaches on whether small companies that are majority-owned by venture capital firms should be eligible for Small Business Innovation Research awards.

If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year - or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the "public option" - then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption.

TOPICS Hackery Senator Mary Landrieu is under "attack" in a radio ad from MoveOn.org. I can't figure out where the "attack" is: the very short radio ad told people factual information about how much soft money the healthcare industry gave to Landrieu and also asked listeners to CALL LANDRIEU and express their opinions about healthcare.

President Barack Obama insists that offering Americans the choice of a government-run alternative to private insurance is indispensable to health care reform.

Kent Conrad wants to allow groups of consumers to band together to provide insurance, but many Democrats appear wary.

An organization that says it wants to reduce the influence of big money in Congress is targeting U.S. Sen.

The number of small U.S. businesses relying on credit cards to cover operational costs has risen, the National Small Business Association said.

A New Orleans college student who helped start a movement to draft porn star Stormy Daniels to run against Republican David Vitter now figures in a campaign critical of Louisiana's other U.S. senator, Democrat Mary Landrieu.

Digital tax breaks advance The new technology industry has a chance to take the New Economy one next big step.

John Amatoa TMs virtual online magazinea OK, Ita TMs a blog! TOPICS Health/Science With Democrats like these... : Sen.

Is the U.S. or even Louisiana prepared for water-related issues during this 21st century.

A panel of federal judges ruled Monday that lawsuits filed around the country against home builders, suppliers and manufacturers of Chinese drywall be moved to New Orleans, where U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon will preside over discovery and pre-trial hearings.