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• Republican National Committee: Who Is Harry Reid? Sen. Minority Leader Determined to Obstruct Bush's Agenda

  - 2005-02-07

  WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following fact sheet is by the Republican National Committee (Part 6 of 6): Reid Has Been Obstacle To Tort Reform: Reid Voted To Block Medical Liability Reform At Least Twelve Times. (H.R. 956, CQ Vote No. 140: Motion Agreed To 65-35: R 24-...

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• Stephen Breyer

  - 2005-01-01

  Stephen Breyer The general consensus on Stephen Breyer (born 1938), the 108th member of the United States Supreme Court, is that he has a brilliant legal mind. However, when those same observers try to label him as either a conservative or a liberal, or attempt to figure out how his...

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• Massachusetts turnpike chief takes some heat from lawmakers.

  - 2004-12-03

  By Yvonne Abraham, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 3--Matthew J. Amorello looked nervous as he arrived at a packed State House hearing room yesterday morning. As the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority chairman sat down just before 10:30 a.m., he was...

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• Pennsylvania senator projected to lead judiciary panel.

  - 2004-11-17

  By Susan Milligan, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--WASHINGTON -- Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, under fire from conservatives because of his views supporting abortion rights, appeared last night to have persuaded his colleagues to give him the...

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• Powell resignation to prompt broad shift in Bush foreign policy approach.

  - 2004-11-16

  By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and three other members of the Bush Cabinet announced their resignations yesterday, clearing the way for a broad transformation, particularly in ...

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• Bush's attorney general pick can expect tough hearings, but is no lighting rod.

  - 2004-11-11

  By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--WASHINGTON -- For his first major appointment since reelection, President Bush turned to a close friend, a mild-mannered centrist -- and a candidate who will probably cost him little of...

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• Kerry hints at possible 2008 White House run: reports

  - 2004-11-09

  WASHINGTON AFP — Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has hinted that he could make another run for the White House in 2008, press reports said. Kerry hinted to a post-campaign event on Saturday that he could run again. "Sometimes God tests you," an aide to the Massachusetts...

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• Kerry could be party's top voice.

  - 2004-11-05

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--WASHINGTON -- The last time a Massachusetts senator won the White House, his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, went home to California in 1960, regrouped, and came back and won the...

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• Experts see Edwards on party's fast track.

  - 2004-11-03

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--RALEIGH, N.C. -- Just six years ago, John Edwards had no national reputation and was best known in his home state as a trial lawyer so skilled that he could deliver...

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• As days count down, rivals amplify verbal assault.

  - 2004-10-29

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29--SAGINAW, Mich. -- With the presidential race growing more biting by the hour, President Bush unleashed a personal attack on his rival's character yesterday, calling Senator John Kerry "the wrong man for the wrong...

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