Senator Feinstein eyes limits to NSA contractors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Thursday that Congress woul...
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Senator Warren calls for tough cross-border swap rules
By Sarah N. Lynch and Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator and Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren is urging fede...
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Support grows for U.S. offshore corporate income tax cut: lawmaker
By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Support from U.S.-based multinational companies is coalescing around a proposal to stem offshore...
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Senate rejects Republican effort to gut immigration bill
By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A landmark immigration bill survived a major challenge in the Senate on T...
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Cuban-American Democrat is Rubio counterweight on immigration
By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the Senate debates the most far reaching immigration bill in a generation, all eyes are on ...
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Analysis: Top court's gay marriage ruling won't be last word
By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court decides this month, gay marriage appears destined to face se...
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Lawmakers tire of playing '20 questions' in surveillance briefings
By Patricia Zengerle and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some members of the Congress say that getting straight answers from i...
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Exclusive: Antitrust probe of Lockheed-Boeing rocket venture
By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have opened a probe into whether a Lockheed-Boeing joint venture that la...
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Obama urges Massachusetts, Florida voters to back Democrats
By Mark Felsenthal MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fighting to protect his party's margin of control in the...
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Military doctors urged to refuse force-feeding at Guantanamo
By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger stri...
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