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May 24, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
The Senate voted 58-40 to increase penalties for hiring undocumented workers. Fines would be doubled to $20,000 and repeat offenders could be sentenced to prison for up to three years.
Increasing penalties . . .
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October 14, 2006 11:39 AM EDT --
Missouri's showdown between Republican Senator Jim Talent and State Auditor Claire McCaskill may well be the closest Senate race in the country.
At RedState, Jeff Emanuel takes the gloves off and . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:33 AM EDT --
The New York Times endorsed Connecticut's rebel Democrat, the Greenwich millionaire and anti-war campaigner, Ned Lamont, over Connecticut's three term Senator and the 2000 Democratic vice presidential . . .
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August 08, 2006 11:42 AM EDT --
The polls are open in Connecticut and, six years to the day after Senator Joe Lieberman was introduced as Gore's running mate, nearly 700,000 Connecticut Democrats have an opportunity to decide whether . . .
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December 14, 2006 08:22 AM EST --
South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson is in critical condition, recovering from emergency surgery.
Johnson suffered stroke-like symptoms Wednesday. He became disoriented during a conference call . . .
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May 25, 2006 09:59 PM EDT --
The Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 by a 62-36 vote.
The Senate bill creates a new guest-worker program and, like the failed 1986 Immigration Reform Act, provides a means . . .
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June 13, 2006 03:39 PM EDT --
House Republicans who have read the 850-page Senate immigration reform bill say it is even worse than previously thought.
Among other things the Senate bill:
Allows illegal aliens to collect Social . . .
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May 25, 2006 08:47 PM EDT --
The House, for the fifth time, approves drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The vote was 225-201 to direct the Interior Department to open oil leases on 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres of ANWR's . . .
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May 28, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
U.S. Senate Majority Leader and presidential wannabee Bill Frist strongly defends the Senate's path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, citing national security concerns.
On Fox News Sunday, the . . .
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August 03, 2006 08:22 AM EDT --
Just five days before Connecticut's Democratic primary a new Quinnipiac poll finds the momentum for Senator Lieberman's Greenwich millionaire and anti-war challenger is still increasing.
Lieberman . . .
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December 04, 2006 09:59 AM EST --
Ed Lynch, chairman of the Roanoke County Republican Party, says it is too soon to give up on Senator George Allen as a possible 2008 contender:
Losing a single election does not necessarily mean permanent . . .
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August 07, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
The day before Connecticut's Democratic primary, a new Quinnipiac poll finds Senator Lieberman has cut the lead of his Greenwich millionaire and anti-war challenger from 13 percent to 6 percent.
Finally . . .
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June 12, 2006 09:10 AM EDT --
According to Rick Amato, the lessons to be learned from Republican Brian Bilbray' victory over Democrat Francine Busby in the election to replace California's Duke Cunningham boils down to this: . . .
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July 15, 2006 08:04 AM EDT --
Reuters reports South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon has been formally nominated to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general:
Ban, 62, has been South Korea's foreign minister since January . . .
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July 18, 2006 10:33 AM EDT --
President Bush told Mexican President Vicente Fox that the U.S. Congress is unlikely to pass immigration reforms before elections in November.
According to Reuters, when Presidents Bush and Fox met at . . .
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December 24, 2006 08:32 PM EST --
Did Muslim Vote In Virginia Swing Senate Control?
The Detroit Free Press reports Muslims played a critical role in the November midterm elections.
Imam Mahdy Bray, Speaking at a Muslim American Society . . .
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October 06, 2006 02:08 PM EDT --
A new Reuters/Zogby poll finds Connecticut Democratic Senator Lieberman leads Greenwich multi-millionaire and anti-war candidate Ned Lamont by 20 percent, 53 percent to 33 percent. Republican nominee, . . .
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December 09, 2006 08:29 AM EST --
Confirming The Obvious
Virginia Senator George Allen, cleaning out his Senate office, said he will no longer explore a presidential run in 2008:
Allen didn't rule out a future run for office, but . . .
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July 18, 2006 12:42 PM EDT --
Ned Lamont, Connecticut's rebel Democrat, is financially supported by contributors outside Connecticut and Lamont's personal fortune. Not counting the $1.1 million the Greenwich millionaire and . . .
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June 02, 2006 04:09 PM EDT --
On Monday, President Bush will once again throw his support behind a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, just before the Tuesday Senate vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA).
The amendment . . .
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