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Democrats' revised health care overhaul lowers cost by hundreds of billions

The Senate health committee's top two Democrats on Thursday rolled out a revamped plan to overhaul health care that would cost $611 billion over 10 years -- far less than their previous version -- but would impose a tax on many employers.

Farm-state compromise opens way for passage of global warming bill

Key Democrats reached a deal Tuesday that its supporters hope will lead to House passage of the biggest environmental bill in decades, one aimed at slowing the destructive heating of the planet.

House passes bill to boost food stamp spending

With rising unemployment forcing millions of additional people onto food stamps, the House on Tuesday passed a bill to boost the program's budget by 14 percent.

Health care overhaul bill suffers another setback

The drive to remake the nation's health care system suffered yet another setback in Congress on Thursday when a pivotal group of House Democrats demanded numerous changes in legislation the leadership was drafting on a fast track.

AP source: Burris won't run for full Senate term

Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats' chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.

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Klobuchar’s Ode to Coleman

It was a tale of two star cross’d senators from different sides of the political aisle. Their bipartisanship might not have been quite so epic as Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets, but Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republican Norm Coleman sometimes raised eyebrows – if not daggers — in their respective parties. In the days after the 35W [...]

Minneapolis mansion once for sale on eBay is now focus of investment scheme under scrutiny

The Van Dusen mansion, a palatial pink stone pile built in 1892 at 1900 LaSalle Avenue, was put up for sale in 2006 on eBay. Now the company that owns it, Oxford Global Advisors LLC, is one of the entities in legal trouble with two Ohio families and their pastor, who filed a federal lawsuit [...]

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