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Senate returns $60B stripped out war bill to House (AP)

U.S. Army 1st Lt.Christopher Babcock, from New Orleans, La., serving with 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, jokes with Afghan villagers as one of them uses his camera to take a photograph, just outside COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on to its $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan.


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Senate Democrats abandon comprehensive energy bill (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, and Director of the White House office of Energy and Climate Change Policy Carol Browner, talk to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 22, 2010. Senate Democrats abandoned plans to pass an energy bill that caps emissions of carbon dioxide, saying Republicans refuse to support the measure.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy bill that caps greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, abandoning a priority of President Barack Obama.


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Checks are coming: Obama signs unemployment bill (AP)

Eric Bilderback, left, holds his resume as he talks with Mike Watson, a business employment specialist at WorkSource Oregon Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Portland, Ore.  The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday 60-40 to end a Republican-led filibuster of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP – Federal checks could begin flowing again as early as next week to millions of jobless people who lost up to seven weeks of unemployment benefits in a congressional standoff.


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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: AZ law to cause ‘crisis’

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) slammed Arizona’s new immigration law on Sunday, saying the legislation could tip the country into “constitutional crisis.”

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Obama, Dems hope banking bill will fire up voters in November

President Obama takes off for a short vacation today with a major accomplishment packed in his bag – a financial overhaul that will be a major keepsake on the campaign trail.

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Congress passes stiff financial reform bill (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, reaches out to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right after signing the financial reform legislation bill during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.


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Congress sends Obama sweeping Wall Street bill (AP)

The Wall Street sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange, March 26, 2009. REUTERS/Chip EastAP – Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Thursday that imposes sweeping new regulations on Wall Street and creates new protections for millions of consumers.


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