Last Minute News Topics» Senate http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com The latest news Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 US-Russia nuke treaty facing hurdles in US Senate (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:11:22 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap FILE - In this April 8, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, toasts with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus at the Prague Castle in Prague Thursday, April 8, 2010. The two leaders signed the New START treaty later in the day.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – The once smooth path for Senate ratification of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia is looking a little dicier.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap/feed 0 US-Russia nuke treaty facing hurdles in US Senate (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap-2 http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap-2#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:11:22 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap-2 FILE - In this April 8, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, toasts with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus at the Prague Castle in Prague Thursday, April 8, 2010. The two leaders signed the New START treaty later in the day.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – The once smooth path for Senate ratification of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia is looking a little dicier.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap-2/feed 0 US-Russia nuke treaty facing hurdles in US Senate (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:11:22 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap FILE - In this April 8, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, toasts with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus at the Prague Castle in Prague Thursday, April 8, 2010. The two leaders signed the New START treaty later in the day.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – The once smooth path for Senate ratification of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia is looking a little dicier.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-russia-nuke-treaty-facing-hurdles-in-us-senate-ap/feed 0 Senate returns $60B stripped out war bill to House (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-returns-60b-stripped-out-war-bill-to-house-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-returns-60b-stripped-out-war-bill-to-house-ap#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:11:42 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/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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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-returns-60b-stripped-out-war-bill-to-house-ap/feed 0 Senate Democrats abandon comprehensive energy bill (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-democrats-abandon-comprehensive-energy-bill-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-democrats-abandon-comprehensive-energy-bill-ap#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:30:39 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/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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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-democrats-abandon-comprehensive-energy-bill-ap/feed 0 Senate approves jobless payments to millions (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-approves-jobless-payments-to-millions-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-approves-jobless-payments-to-millions-ap#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:48:17 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-approves-jobless-payments-to-millions-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 – State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-approves-jobless-payments-to-millions-ap/feed 0 Jobless benefits clear Senate hurdle by one vote (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/jobless-benefits-clear-senate-hurdle-by-one-vote-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/jobless-benefits-clear-senate-hurdle-by-one-vote-ap#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:53:24 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/jobless-benefits-clear-senate-hurdle-by-one-vote-ap Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, is joined by newly-sworn Sen. Carte Goodwin, D-W.Va., right, after the Senate cleared a hurdle to restore unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who have been out of work for more than six months, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. The 60-40 vote came moments after Goodwin, a successor to West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, took his oath of office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Senate Democrats broke through a stubborn Republican filibuster Tuesday and pressed to restart jobless benefits for 2 1/2 million Americans still unable to find work in the frail national economic recovery. The Democrats were victorious by the single vote of a new senator sworn in only moments earlier. Senators voted 60-40 to move ahead on the bill, clearing the way for a final vote in the chamber as early as Tuesday evening.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/jobless-benefits-clear-senate-hurdle-by-one-vote-ap/feed 0 Republicans square off in Arizona Senate debate (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/republicans-square-off-in-arizona-senate-debate-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/republicans-square-off-in-arizona-senate-debate-ap#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:18:46 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/republicans-square-off-in-arizona-senate-debate-ap Sen. John McCain, center, looks at former congressman J.D. Hayworth, right, as political newcomer Jim Deakin checks his notes at the first Arizona Senate Republican debate at KTVK Channel 3, Friday, July 16, 2010, in Phoenix. The election primary is August 24. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP – Former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth had a much-needed opportunity Friday night to refocus Arizona’s Republican Senate primary on incumbent John McCain, and he came out swinging.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/republicans-square-off-in-arizona-senate-debate-ap/feed 0 Senate clears sweeping bank bill for final passage (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-clears-sweeping-bank-bill-for-final-passage-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-clears-sweeping-bank-bill-for-final-passage-ap#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:17:08 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-clears-sweeping-bank-bill-for-final-passage-ap FILE - In this April 28, 2010 file photo Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, accompanied by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Democrat leaders will work this week to secure the last votes needed to pass legislation imposing the most sweeping new rules on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. It needs 60 votes in the Senate. Reid delayed a final Senate vote until after the July 4th holiday because of the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., and hesitation from three Republicans who had previously supported the legislation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP – A sweeping crackdown on banking and high-finance broke through a Senate Republican blockade Thursday, setting the stage for Congress to send the massive regulation overhaul to President Barack Obama.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/senate-clears-sweeping-bank-bill-for-final-passage-ap/feed 0 Obama bypasses Senate for new Medicare chief (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/obama-bypasses-senate-for-new-medicare-chief-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/obama-bypasses-senate-for-new-medicare-chief-ap#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:25:16 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/obama-bypasses-senate-for-new-medicare-chief-ap This undated handout provided by Goodman Media International, Inc., shows Donald Berwick. Bypassing Republicans eager to grill an administration official over the new health care law, President Barack Obama is planning to appoint the head of Medicare and Medicaid without Senate hearings. Obama intends to use a so-called recess appointment to put Berwick in charge of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a White House official said Tuesday night. The appointment was expected Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Goodman Media International, Inc.)AP – President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.


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