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3 hrs ago | WGGB

Conn. GOP Senate candidates switching races

U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd could soon have a couple fewer opponents. Republican candidate Sam Caligiuri , a state senator from Waterbury announced Tuesday he's withdrawing from the Senate race to challenge 5th District Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, New Haven Metro

8 hrs ago | KTXL-TV Sacramento

Obama's financial overhaul plan doesn't concern bank regulator facing elimination

A top bank regulator is throwing cold water on a financial overhaul plan the Obama administration wants to see passed quickly.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Insurance, American International Group

12 hrs ago | Free Republic

Dad's disgrace drives son

It was a matter of time before someone started the time-for-Chris-Dodd-to-retire conversation.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, US Senate, Democrat, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Home, Mortgage

20 hrs ago | USA Today

Democrats at risk in 2010 shift from offense to defense

Two-term Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., right, receives best wishes in his run for Senate from Dorothy Solomon of Albany, N.H. The seat is being left vacant by Republican Judd Gregg and is considered a tossup in 2010.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Ron Paul, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Paul Hodes, Democrat, Judd Gregg, US Senate, Senator Michael Bennet

Mon Nov 23, 2009

TIME.com

After the Health Vote, Republicans Plot Attack Strategy

Senate majority leader Harry Reid embraces Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut after the Senate voted to formally launch debate on health care reform Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty The Senate's first day of debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the health-care system produced a squeaker of a vote - exactly the 60 that majority leader Harry Reid ...

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics

KTVN Reno

Health Highlights: Nov. 22, 2009

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : Senate Democrats managed to push health care reform legislation past a key hurdle on Saturday night, with a cloture vote that will lead to a debate on the Senate floor later this month, the Associated Press reported.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, US Senate, Democrat, Max Baucus

Workforce

Hearing Indicates Emergency Paid Leave Bill May Be Modified

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.

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Related Topix: George Miller, US Politics, US News, Lynn Woolsey, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Rosa DeLauro, Christopher Dodd, US Senate

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Boston Globe

Obama domestic agenda largely a one-party effort

Despite early pleas for bipartisanship, President Obama is forging ahead with his domestic agenda with a largely single-party strategy, unable to corral more than a handful of Republicans on a wide range of major legislation before Congress.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, US Senate, Republican, Olympia Snowe

SavannahNow

Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle

A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Healthcare Law, Law, Barack Obama, Tom Harkin, US Senate, Democrat

Insurance News Net

Senate To Vote Saturday On Opening Debate On Health Care BillLoading...

November 19, 2009 Thursday 9:01 AM EST SECTION: POLITICS LENGTH: 1177 words HEADLINE: Senate to vote Saturday on opening debate on health care bill DATELINE: Washington The Senate will vote Saturday on opening debate on the sweeping health care bill introduced by Democrats, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Health Insurance, Health, Christopher Dodd, US Senate, Democrat

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Reuters

Key Republican snubs Senate regulation bill

A key Republican senator said on Thursday that he would not support a Democratic bill to overhaul U.S. financial regulation.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News

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Democrats proposing the 'botax,' a 5% levy on nips and tucks

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Christopher Dodd and Sen.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Medicine, Plastic Surgery

My Left Nutmeg

Broken Democracy

The GOP blocked a bill yesterday from Senator Dodd which would have frozen increases in credit card interest rates, fees and finance charges.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, US Senate, Democrat, Thad Cochran, Republican

Fulton County Daily Report

Too-big-to-fail banks need health care victory

Investors are wondering just how far Congress will go toward breaking up big banks.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, US Senate, Bernard Sanders, Opinion

Fri Nov 20, 2009

NY Daily News

Under attack, Geithner defendscostly AIG bailout

Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, testifies at a joint Economic Committee hearing on financial regulatory overhaul in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov.

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Related Topix: US News, Insurance, American International Group, US Politics, Kevin Brady, Republican, US House of Representatives, Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services

Kansas.com

Reid: Congress closer than ever to health overhaul

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., second right, with Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., second left, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, speaks to the media about the Democratic health care bill on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Democrat, US News, Harry Reid

On Wall Street

In Senate, Both Parties Pan Dodd's Regulatory Reform Bill

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd abruptly abandoned his plan to press ahead with a partisan vote on his regulatory reform bill next month after running into bipartisan opposition.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, Tim Johnson, Evan Bayh

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

San Francisco's health care a model during debate

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.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Christopher Dodd

Thu Nov 19, 2009

ABC News

US Panel Sets Fees for Big Firms, Aims to Slow Fed

Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Maxine Waters

The Hartford Courant

GOP rips Dodd on NY terror trial: Capitol Watch

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Rob Simmons, Republican, US House of Representatives, Christopher Dodd, US Senate, Democrat

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