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Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama’s signature (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama is seen at the White House in Washington in this January 5, 2010 file photo. Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/FilesAP – Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval Wednesday.


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Senate poised to clear jobs bill for Obama (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama is seen at the White House in Washington in this January 5, 2010 file photo. Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/FilesAP – Companies that hire unemployed workers get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill headed for likely Senate passage Wednesday.


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Peralta trounces Hiram in special election for state Senate seat

Hiram Monserrate has lost his long-shot bid to get his state Senate seat back in a special election.

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Senate, Obama spar over health plan’s pet projects (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, along with Gina Owens from Seattle, Wash.,left,  whose daughter, Tiffany Owens died after losing her job and health care,  Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill. center, and others, arrive for a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.


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Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension (AP)

AP – Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.

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Senate returns to business tax break measure (AP)

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. heads for the weekly caucus lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Bunning has again blocked the U.S. Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – After buying time by resolving an impasse over jobless benefits and other programs that had briefly lapsed, the Senate is returning to a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits through the end of the year.


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Senate votes unemployment benefits, highway funds (AP)

FILE - In a Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-KY., listens during a Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs executive session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bunning on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP – The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.


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