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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.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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