Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2788 politics Politics - Congressional Quarterly en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:26:18 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2788 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090703/pl_cq_politics/politics3158465 cq/20090703/politics3158465 CQPolitics.com politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:26:18 GMT CQPolitics.com - Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled anew Friday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be questioned about lawsuits charging racial bias during her tenure on the board of a Latino legal advocacy group. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090703/pl_cq_politics/politics3158429 cq/20090703/politics3158429 CQPolitics.com politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:35:18 GMT CQPolitics.com - Another new month brings another tough-to- swallow employment report. The headlines trumpeted an increase in the number of jobs lost in June and a rise in the jobless rate. Neither was really a surprise. We know the picture is grim and will remain so for a while. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3158254 cq/20090702/politics3158254 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:16 GMT CQPolitics.com - Senate Democratic leaders are inching closer to seating Democrat Al Franken as the junior senator from Minnesota and clinching control, at least on paper, of 60 votes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3158243 cq/20090702/politics3158243 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:19 GMT CQPolitics.com - The White House on Friday pushed back against a GOP effort to tie Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the work of a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3158016 cq/20090702/politics3158016 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:21 GMT CQPolitics.com - Revised health overhaul legislation under development in the Senate would result in insurance coverage for 97 percent of Americans, leaders of a key committee said Thursday, though the total cost is still unknown. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090702/pl_cq_politics/politics3157796 cq/20090702/politics3157796 CQPolitics.com politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:02:36 GMT CQPolitics.com - Republicans say Democrat Al Franken's victory in the long-contested Minnesota Senate race opens a new line of attack against Democrats for 2010. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157755 cq/20090701/politics3157755 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:05:20 GMT CQPolitics.com - Campaign finance mavens John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis., are joining forces once again - this time to block President Obama's nomination of labor lawyer John J. Sullivan to the Federal Election Commission. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157720 cq/20090701/politics3157720 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:55:14 GMT CQPolitics.com - With the Highway Trust Fund on the verge of depletion, the Transportation Department sent Congress a more detailed plan Wednesday to keep surface transportation programs funded through March 2011. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157718 cq/20090701/politics3157718 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:53:20 GMT CQPolitics.com - As Sunni and Shiite Arabs dance in the streets to celebrate the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraqi cities, Iraq's other major ethnic group is pleading for increased U.S. commitment and involvement in Iraqi affairs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157693 cq/20090701/politics3157693 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:08:23 GMT CQPolitics.com - Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the powerful California Democrat at the center of the legislative fights over sweeping health care and global warming legislation, has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital for tests, his staff said Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157624 cq/20090701/politics3157624 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:32:21 GMT CQPolitics.com - The first day of July brought a trio of developments in the New York's 2010 special election for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic appointee Kirsten Gillibrand. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157597 cq/20090701/politics3157597 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:13:18 GMT CQPolitics.com - The fate of global warming legislation in the Senate may hang on the votes of 19 Democrats who have varying reasons for worrying about its political implications: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157587 cq/20090701/politics3157587 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:53:22 GMT CQPolitics.com - Senate Democratic leaders are preparing for what is expected to be a tough fight over climate change legislation, even tougher than it was in the House. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090701/pl_cq_politics/politics3157539 cq/20090701/politics3157539 CQPolitics.com politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:22:19 GMT CQPolitics.com - Tom Reed, the mayor of the small upstate New York city of Corning, announced Wednesday that he is challenging freshman Democratic Rep. Eric Massa for the state's 29th District seat. Reed's decision to run gives Republican strategists their preferred candidate for one of their priority races in the 2010 national House campaign. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3157088 cq/20090630/politics3157088 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:53:17 GMT CQPolitics.com - Democrats in the Senate are more than ready for Al Franken to join their ranks. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3157085 cq/20090630/politics3157085 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:48:16 GMT CQPolitics.com - Al Franken, D-Minn. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3157080 cq/20090630/politics3157080 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:30:16 GMT CQPolitics.com - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, announced Tuesday that it would support a mandate on businesses to help expand health care coverage, an about-face from other business interests that have strongly opposed any such requirement. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3157064 cq/20090630/politics3157064 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:59:14 GMT CQPolitics.com - Residents of Minnesota got through winter and spring -- and into summer -- with an empty seat in the U.S. Senate. Here are the mileposts in the Senate race so far: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3157043 cq/20090630/politics3157043 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:36:18 GMT CQPolitics.com - Democrat Al Franken was the narrow winner of last year's Senate race in Minnesota, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cqpolitics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20090630/pl_cq_politics/politics3156999 cq/20090630/politics3156999 CQPolitics.com politics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:00 GMT CQPolitics.com - Two public health experts painted a relatively rosy picture Tuesday of the United States' ability to respond to the swine flu pandemic, saying the country had learned from earlier mistakes and from plans developed during the avian flu scare several years ago.