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By H. Josef Hebert AP Washington —- The Senate voted Monday to proceed with legislation to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to combat global warming, kicking off what is expected to be a contentious, weeklong debate over how best to …
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At the door to the State Senate chamber on Thursday, a sergeant-at-arms held back protesters who were objecting to the Republican-led takeover of the Senate.
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Newsday
ALBANY, NY - The New York Senate's Democratic conference says it's headed to court to try to block the coalition that claims it took the majority power of the chamber Monday in a parliamentary power grab. Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran says the …
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Washington Post
By Paul Kane The weeks ahead were supposed to mark the moment in which President Obama used a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority to push some of the most ambitious items on his agenda through the Senate, brushing aside GOP opposition as little more …
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hobbled through a packed day of meetings on Capitol Hill Monday after breaking her ankle in an early morning airport stumble, then boarding a flight from New York to Washington to visit senators …
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Bloomberg
By Catherine Larkin June 8 (Bloomberg) — The Senate cleared the way for a final debate in a decade-old fight over whether the $80-billion- a-year US tobacco industry should be policed by drug regulators.
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Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN - The Legislature's 2009 session ended in a bitter meltdown late Monday as the Senate refused to vote on whether to keep two major state agencies alive, setting up the possibility of a special session within months to revive the transportation …
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Republicans in the Ohio Senate want to make funding cuts across state agencies to plug an estimated $1 billion hole in the two-year budget plan under review in the state legislature.
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The Detroit News
Lansing — Negotiations over the Cobo Center expansion will shift today to the policy summit on Mackinac Island, following passage Wednesday by the Senate of a controversial package of bills on the issue.
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Los Angeles Times
After the board of regents approves $400000 salaries for two chancellors while also raising student fees, a coalition of state senators seeks to give Legislature control over university policies.
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