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SF Gate
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The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to temporarily stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a response to public anger over rising oil prices as the average price of regular unleaded gasoline nationwide hit a new high of $3.73 per gallo..
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MSNBC
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Hillary Rodham Clinton finished Tuesday's Florida Democratic primary with more votes than any other Democrat, but the event drew no campaigning by any of her presidential rivals and awarded no delegates to the winner.
But Clinton promptly declared it a..
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Press Esc
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The US Senate website is not publishing the roll call of votes by Senators on the bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act making President George W. Bush's illegal wiretapping order retroactively legal.
Thomas, the online legislative in..
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CNN
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The House passed a $37.4 billion budget bill for the Homeland Security Department on Friday, but minority Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a promised veto by President Bush.
No such fate awaits an even more generous bill funding veterans prog..
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Boston Globe
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A proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was defeated today by a joint session of the Legislature by a vote of 45 to 151, eliminating any chance of getting it on the ballot in November 2008. At least 50 votes were needed to advance the measure...
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USA Today
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The leading Democratic candidates for president tangled over the war in Iraq and the global war on terrorism Sunday in a debate marked by tough talk on foreign policy.
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, running first and second respectively..
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FOX News
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Democrats are not done trying to stamp out Iraq war policy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday, announcing two more votes to be taken on the matter this week as the Senate attempts to pass a controversial war spending bill.
Debate is schedul..
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Washington Post
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With public opinion tilting firmly toward ending U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.) might have expected praise for his votes that would start to bring the troops home. Instead, at town hall meetings on the Eastern Shore,..
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FOX News
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House Democratic leaders predict they will have enough votes to pass legislation requiring U.S. troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1 and send it on to President Bush for his promised veto.
Several House members said they would go along with the bill..
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Washington Post
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As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking...
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Orlando Sentinel
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The group of nearly 18,000 voters that registered no choice in Sarasota's disputed congressional election solidly backed Democratic candidates in all five of Florida's statewide races, an Orlando Sentinel analysis of ballot data shows...
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CNET
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As elections officials continue their post-mortems on last Tuesday's race, another irregularity in electronic voting machine tallies has surfaced...
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Forbes
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Randy Wooten figured he'd get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people - even if it was just his own...
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MSNBC
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A woman who died two months ago won a county commissioner's race in Jerauld County on Tuesday. Democrat Marie Steichen, of Woonsocket, got 100 votes, defeating incumbent Republican Merlin Feistner, of Woonsocket, who had 64 votes...
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OpEd News
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Ohio voting rights activist and attorney, Bob Fitrakis, says the Ohio elections may have already been won, responding to reports of massive voter purges in Democratic precincts...
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BBC News
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Barack Obama is hoping to take a step towards clinching the Democratic Party's US presidential nomination, as Kentucky and Oregon hold primary votes.
Senator Obama looks set to win in Oregon and Hillary Clinton in Kentucky.
In the primaries so far,..
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Seattle Pi
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In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pu..
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SF Gate
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A GOP-backed initiative to toss out California's winner-take-all system of assigning electoral votes was approved for circulation Wednesday, and Democrats immediately slammed it as a backdoor attempt to hand Republicans the 2008 presidential election...
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CBS News
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Florida Democrats could lose their votes for the presidential nominee next year unless they change plans to hold their primary earlier than national party rules allow.
The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee was poised Saturday t..
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USA Today
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.
While the measures a..
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