House Democrats are predicting that a rare Sunday session will produce one of the most significant legislative triumphs in decades: passage of a historic bill to overhaul the nation's health care system to provide coverage to millions of people who currently lack it.
The stakes are high for the state's House members, expected to split 4-4.
Five years after it was built, the $2 million facility remains unopened and empty, except for thousands of dollars in furniture bought by the U.S. government.
A congressman who was spat on by a protestor on Capitol Hill says he is declining to press charges, but turns out the Capitol Police say they made no arrests.
A presidential order means 1,000 Liberians in Minnesota, many in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center, can stay in the U.S. through September 2011.
Sen. Al Franken's words to Obama adviser part of health care history
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