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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:25 GMT

This undated image from Senator Harry Reid's Senate website shows Reid, second from left standing, with his family including daughter Lana, left sitting, and wife Landra. Reid's wife was hospitalized with a broken back and neck Thursday March 11, 2010 after a tractor-trailer truck slammed into the back of the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, officials said. Reid's wife, Landra, 69, whose injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, and their daughter, Lana Barringer, 49, were taken by ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. The daughter was released from the hospital Thursday night, hospital spokesman Tony Raker said. (AP Photo/US Senate)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said.


Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:03 GMT
AP - Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:34:28 GMT

President Barack Obama speaks at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.


Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:25:46 GMT

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 file photo shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. One is a former Democratic freshman who was little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y. district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax bills. But now, Republicans — looking for any opening to regain control of the House — are portraying newly resigned first-termer Eric Massa and veteran Charles Rangel as dual symbols of Democratic ethical misconduct. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP - House Democrats on Thursday stopped a Republican bid to force an investigation of Democratic leaders aimed at determining whether they covered up sexual harassment allegations against ex-Rep. Eric Massa.


Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:47:25 GMT

A file photo of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as he arrives at a memorial service for U.S. Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed/FilesAP - Republicans in Pennsylvania have nominated a political newcomer to fill the congressional seat of the late Rep. John Murtha.


Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:53:00 GMT
Reuters - The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were seriously injured on Thursday when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck on a highway, the senator's office said.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:51 GMT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid listens during a press conference on Capitol Hill in February 2010. Reid's wife suffered a broken back and broken neck and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident Thursday, his office said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)AFP - Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid's wife suffered a broken back and broken neck and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident Thursday, his office said.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:31 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - Call it the great earmark race.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:26:18 GMT
AP - The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part because the statute of limitations expired.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:14:07 GMT

Sen. Richard Lugar participates in a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, in 2009. Lugar introduced legislation Thursday aimed at boosting US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA), citing disappointment at the pace of democratic reforms in key target countries.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - A top US senator introduced legislation Thursday aimed at boosting US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA), citing disappointment at the pace of democratic reforms in key target countries.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:11:11 GMT
AP - A former spokesman for the U.S.-led military incursion in Iraq under President George W. Bush is likely to enter the Republican primary to challenge Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:14:04 GMT
AP - The Republican candidate running to replace Rep. Patrick Kennedy in Congress says he's getting help in his bid from several former GOP presidential candidates.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:03:14 GMT

US Senator Christopher Dodd, seen here during a press conference, said he would unveil new legislation next Monday to rewrite US financial rules and prevent a repeat of the global economic meltdown of 2008.(AFP/File/Elmer Martinez)AFP - A key US senator said he would unveil new legislation on Monday aimed at giving American financial rules their biggest overhaul since the Great Depression in the wake of the 2008 meltdown.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:32:42 GMT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid puts his hand on the shoulder of 11 year old Marcelas Owens during a national health care event with US Senator Patty Murray in Washington, DC on Thursday. Owens and his two younger sisters lost their mother, Tiffany Owens, at the age of 27 due to pulmonary hypertension when she lost her health insurance after losing her job.(AFP/Getty Images/Win Mcnamee)AFP - US Senate Democrats Thursday heralded a bitter endgame of President Barack Obama's health reform drive, announcing they would use a contentious legislative tactic to try to pass the bill.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:13:10 GMT
AP - In an election-year appeal to voters frustrated with Washington, House Republicans promised Thursday not to stuff any of this year's spending bills with pet projects for their districts.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:13:20 GMT
CQPolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he is leaving it up to his caucus to decide whether to wrap a health care overhaul and a student loan bill into a single budget reconciliation package.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:10:23 GMT
CQPolitics.com - House Democratic leaders worked Thursday to assuage the concerns of nervous rank-and-file members while they awaited final budget numbers for their planned revisions to a Senate-passed health care overhaul.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:43:17 GMT
CQPolitics.com - House Republicans voted among themselves Thursday to forgo earmark requests for a year -- a move designed to trump a more limited curb on member-directed spending adopted by Democrats a day ago.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:46:15 GMT

In this image from video provided by C-SPAN, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., speaks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/C-SPAN)AP - U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy is blasting the news media as "despicable," accusing it of ignoring the war in Afghanistan even as troops continue to die there.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:09:47 GMT

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 file photo shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. One is a former Democratic freshman who was little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y. district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax bills. But now, Republicans — looking for any opening to regain control of the House — are portraying newly resigned first-termer Eric Massa and veteran Charles Rangel as dual symbols of Democratic ethical misconduct. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP - One is a former Democratic freshman little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y., district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, is widely known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax legislation.


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