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• Media Groups Urge Quick Senate Action on Federal Shield Law After Former USA Today Journalist Ordered to Pay Unprecedented Personal Fines

  - 2008-03-11

  In a letter to the Senate today, more than 50 media companies and organizations pressed for quick passage of the federal shield legislation after a federal judge issued a decision over the weekend requiring Toni Locy, a former USA Today reporter and now university professor, to personally pay...

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• Thomas memoirs try to clear 'untruths' about him

  - 2007-10-01

  WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ascends the bench with his colleagues today for the start of a new term, just as his memoirs reopening the wounds of his 1991 Senate confirmation battle go on sale. In a telephone interview Sunday with USA TODAY, Thomas...

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• Senate takes up proposal for immigration overhaul

  - 2007-05-21

  WASHINGTON -- Forget your poor, tired, huddled masses. Now some policymakers are saying the nation might be better off fixing its sights on engineers and Ph.D.s. The immigration legislation the Senate begins debating today takes a step in that direction, a step that other countries have...

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• Senator blocks nominee for product safety

  - 2007-05-10

  WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., has blocked a Senate vote on President Bush's nominee to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In a May 8 letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nelson said that Michael Baroody, chief lobbyist and vice president of the National...

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• Capitol clout funnels cash to states

  - 2007-04-26

  WASHINGTON -- As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Ted Stevens secured funding for pet projects worth $1,044 for each Alaskan in 2005 -- more than three times any other state, an analysis of newly released federal data shows. By contrast, North Carolina, which had...

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• Clinton: Treatment of troops 'outrageous'

  - 2007-04-12

  FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- One by one, their eyes on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, more than 40 soldiers recited a somber roll call: name, rank, company and where in Iraq or Afghanistan they had been wounded. Later, after hearing their tales of chaos, confusion and shabby...

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• Obama touts non-political resume

  - 2007-02-09

  CHICAGO -- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who will announce Saturday that he's running for the Democratic presidential nomination, says the brevity of his political resume is his "greatest strength." His work as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, constitutional law professor and state legislator "provides me...

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• Senate control in play, polls find

  - 2006-11-06

  WASHINGTON -- Democrats, poised to score gains in the U.S. Senate, are struggling to pull ahead in the final seat they need to win control, USA TODAY/Gallup Polls in six key states find. Democratic challengers are leading Republican incumbents -- in some cases narrowly -- in Missouri, Montana and Rhode...

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• Controversy clouds Allen's re-election bid

  - 2006-09-28

  LEESBURG, Va. -- Michael Johnson is a swing voter in a swing county in what's turned into one of the hottest Senate races in the country, and he's swinging away from George Allen, the man he voted for in 2000. Johnson, 35, a football fan attracted six years ago by...

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• Congress full of fortunate sons -- and other relatives

  - 2006-08-08

  WASHINGTON -- Politics has never been more of a family business. In 1986, at least 24 U.S. senators and representatives were closely related to governors or other members of Congress, USA TODAY research shows. Twenty years later, there are more than 50 -- among them four sets of...

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