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Bob Benenson's Pres. Debate Moments That Mattered
From Kennedy’s visual triumph over Nixon in 1960 to Al Gore’s sighs in 2000, CQ Politics political editor Bob Benenson looks at past debate moments that mattered.
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How will the Senate vote on health care? That's the question on everybody's minds as Democratic leaders in Congress attempt to clear the last hurdle for a historic overhaul. Now you can help answer it.
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Eric Spiegelman puts together a series of photos which strongly suggests the White House may have sent a cardboard cut out to New York instead of President Obama himself.
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Under heavy criticism from Democrats for the strong social conservatism detailed in a 1989 thesis, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said voters on Nov. 3 will be swayed by his record as a public official and not for what he called an “academic exercise.”
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As politicians and interest groups try to shape the outcome of the health care overhaul, they've offered interpretations that are so wildly different that truth sometimes seems to be taking a vacation.
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Is Harry Reid too big to fail? That is shaping up as the key point of contention in the Senate majority leader’s 2010 re-election contest back home in Nevada.
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Midlothian, Va. — House Republicans will spend the fall portraying the economic stimulus law as a waste of taxpayer money while depicting Democratic attempts to retool the health system as potentially ruinous to small businesses, says Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia.
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Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) claims that President Obama told him "he's willing to be a one-term president if that's what it takes to get health care and energy reform."
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With 257 of the 435 U.S. House seats, Democrats are strongly favored to retain their majority in the 2010 elections -- though history points to party losses in the first midterm election of President Obama.
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A fight is brewing between Capitol Hill and the Pentagon over allegations that Chinese government agents were allowed to interrogate some detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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A Capitol Hill townhouse that serves as a dormitory and meeting place for a band of conservative Christian lawmakers has been linked to a third episode of marital infidelity, this time in a Mississippi court filing by a former lawmaker's estranged wife.
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The health care overhauls released to date would increase, not reduce, the burgeoning long-term health costs facing the government, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said Thursday.
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President Obama on Wednesday again prodded Congress to finish work on a health care overhaul before the August recess as his administration edged closer to a strategy that could push the legislation through the Senate without Republican votes.
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House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes has suggested Republicans would be well advised to avoid politicizing the intelligence authorizaton bill later this week in light of evidence that, he says, shows that the CIA “affirmatively lied to” the panel.
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Specter, who faces a serious challenge in a 2010 Democratic primary, has demonstrated a higher level of party unity during his brief time as a Democrat than he did as a Republican.
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Nearly four dozen members of Congress have spouses employed in the health care industry — ties that lawmakers acknowledge are influencing their thinking about how the health system should be overhauled.
