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When Dick Durbin announced he was stepping down from his U.S. Senate seat, Juliana Stratton didn't wait to see what the political landscape looked like. She was the first major Democrat to file. That kind of ...

The Democratic-led U.S. Senate is expected on Thursday to defeat a largely symbolic measure that would exempt employers such as Roman Catholic hospitals, universities and charities from a controversial Whit...

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt will testify this week before a U.S. Senate panel investigating anti-trust issues, the New York Times and others are reporting. At issue is whether Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), am...

The GOP now has the power that they have wanted since Barack Obama won the Oval Office. On November 2, 2010, the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives. And while they did not win con...

The real question is why these Democrats and President Obama for that matter, thinks bi-partisanship is so important. It's not. Obama needs to tell the Democrats on the Finance committee who are unravel...

Since the election there figures to be a carosuel of openings in the United States Congress and Senate. Most of the speculation is behind the senate seat that President-Elect Obama will leave behind in the sena...