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   <title><![CDATA[Financial Reform: Will Dodd's Bipartisan Push Pay Off?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Senate Banking chairman Chris Dodd has reached across the aisle to the GOP to create bipartisan working groups to tackle the four hardest questions in financial regulatory reform]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Obama's First Year Policies Need Time to Settle In]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The media are giving Obama grief for just about everything. But it's far too soon to judge his policies]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Senate Report: Bin Laden was 'Within Our Grasp']]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Can Bob Casey Bridge the Abortion Divide on Health Care?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, the son of the man often called the father of pro-life Democrats, faces the biggest issue of his three years in the Senate: a debate over federal funding of abortions that threatens to bring down health care reform]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Obama to Announce Afghanistan Plan Tues.]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will announce his plan to bolster the war in Afghanistan in a speech Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his spokesman said]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[After the Health Vote, Republicans Plot Attack Strategy]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Senate's first day of debate on health reform gave a clear picture of the Republican attack strategy as the legislation moves forward]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Senator's Affair Revealed in Text Message]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[A Nevada man whose wife had an affair with Sen. John Ensign said he discovered the relationship after intercepting a text message around Christmas in 2007]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Health Care: Do the Democrats Have Enough Votes?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hoursaway, the White House dispatched a platoon of top strategists]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[SC Legislators Begin Sanford Impeachment Hearings]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford's summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start debating a measure]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Obama: U.S. Economy Has 'Core Strengths']]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama said Monday the nation's economy is in good shape for the long term thanks to "core strengths" such as its universities, its innovation and a dynamic workforce]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Senate Dems Moving With Test Health Vote]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[A wavering centrist Democrat said Friday he'd stand with Senate Democratic leaders on a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Historic Health Care Bill Nears Key Senate Vote]]></title>
   <link>http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1942057,00.html?xid=rss-politics</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to move ahead on historic health care legislation.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Obama's Asia Trip: Too Focused on Common Ground?]]></title>
   <link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1940558,00.html?xid=rss-politics</link>
   <description><![CDATA[In foreign policy, does making nice lead to making progress?]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer]]></title>
   <link>http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1940537,00.html?xid=rss-politics</link>
   <description><![CDATA[How Obama's lawyer sparked a battle royal when he tried to keep some of the President's campaign promises in the war on terrorism]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue': What Do Book Reviews Say?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's blockbuster memoir, Going Rogue, gets a mixed reception in the press as it hits bookstores]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Abortion Funding in Health Care Reform Splits Democrats]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[In the end, all the tea-party town halls, Glenn Beck rallies and "death panel" rumors may have less of a hand in bringing down health care reform than an intraparty Democratic culture war]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Senate Health Bottom Line: $849 Billion Overhaul]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid briefed crucial moderate Democrats before unveiling long-awaited legislation Wednesday to remake the nation's health care system]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Dan Pfeiffer: The Next White House Communications Boss]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The 33-year-old will guide the Obama administration's public face amid a feud with the powerful Fox news operation]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Rejects Redskins Name Case]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Carter Defends Handling of 1979 Iran Crisis]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[RNC Health Insurance Plan Covers Abortion]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Homeland Security Chief: Many Border Security Goals Met]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday said many of the border security benchmarks set by the Obama administration have been met]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Democrats Worry Joe Lieberman Could Sink Health Care]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is trying to grin and bear the roguish independent Joe Lieberman in their caucus (they do need his vote on health care), but it is getting harder and harder]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Klein on the Iraq Surge: What Lessons for Afghanistan?]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[There's no guarantee that counterinsurgency tactics will succeed in Afghanistan]]></description>
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