 | Gingrich keeps bright tone despite losses
Newt Gingrich is keeping a chipper tone despite his poor showing in this week's GOP presidential caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota.
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 | Judge denies requests to seal Stevens probe
A federal judge is denying requests to keep private the results of an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct in the case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens.
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 | Losses shows Romney's conservative woes
Mitt Romney just can't shake his difficulty attracting conservatives and that reality is undercutting his effort to cast himself as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee.
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 | Congress tries to give president line-item veto
The Republican-led House is trying to give President Barack Obama the line-item veto, a power over the purse that has been sought by both Republican and Democratic presidents.
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 | Romney's bad day is Santorum's best in GOP race
Republican Rick Santorum is looking to capitalize on a string of stunning victories that has snapped his four-state losing streak and raised new questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's clout with conservatives.
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 | House GOP introduces insider trading bill
House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials and prevent lawmakers convicted of a crime from collecting their government pensions.
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 | Romney's camp downplays Santorum wins
Mitt Romney's camp is downplaying last night's triple-state win by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum in Colorado and Minnesota's caucuses and Missouri's primary.
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 | Senate struggles to pay for highway
Senate Democrats say they plan to take up a bill to extend federal highway programs next week, even though they haven't figured out yet how to pay for them without raiding the general treasury.
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 | Republicans attack Obama on birth control
Republican presidential candidates are railing against what they describe as an attack on religion by President Barack Obama.
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 | Payroll tax cut talks adrift on Capitol Hill
Prospects for extending President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut now seem far less certain as House-Senate talks have deadlocked over finding ways to pay for it.
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