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</p> These security issues are numerous.
</p> Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) Forget today’s Kennedy, the lion of the Senate.
</p> [IMGCAP(1)]While I’m fortunate (or willfully forgetful) not to have an HOH write-up that’s stuck with me, I’ve consumed my share of humble pie.
</p> But when Sen.
</p> After talking with Obama’s economic team and getting the amendment included in the Senate-passed TARP bill, Wyden’s amendment was stripped out in conference committee.
</p> Other states where the Democratic field remains in flux include Ohio, Kentucky and Florida.</p> In the Buckeye State, Sen.
</p> With Rep.
on the bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would attempt again Tuesday to pass a bill to prevent automatic Congressional pay raises.
</p> Twelve organizations, representing the biotech industry, patient groups and venture capitalists, have already endorsed the Eshoo-Inslee-Barton bill with its 12-year patent protection.
</p> Van Hollen said he expected the Ways and Means Committee to take action “as soon as possible,— with a bill quickly heading to the floor after that.
The National Association of Home Builders and the chief executive officers of the biggest homebuilders appear to be patching up a long-standing rift over a tax code provision in the stimulus bill.
</p> The bill, however, faces an uncertain future in the House, where Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) would not promise to bring it to the floor.
Senators voted 62-36 to add the language to their version of the bill before adopting it. </p> House leaders have been stumped since then about a path forward.
</p> Additionally, the plan would tax non-retention bonuses exceeding $50,000 at the same rate.
</p> Sarah Palin (Getty) </p> What seemed Monday to be a simple tout of a speech by 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin at a major party fundraising event this June unraveled into confusion
</p> </p> Viva Cuba.
</p> Even before the official White House announcement this morning of Obama’s selection of U.S.
</p> “I have a sinking feeling we’re getting deeper and deeper into a war that has no end,— said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), a leading liberal.</p> Rep. Walter Jones Jr.
</p> Officials at the House and Senate GOP campaign committees said Tuesday that Alaska Gov.