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Senate and House Democrats, optimistic about their election-year prospects, have more money in the bank for the midterm contests than their Republican counterparts.
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Democrats won a key test vote Tuesday as the Senate prepares to send a massive $464 billion catchall pending bill to President Bush's desk.
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Leading Democrats introduced legislation that would more than double taxes on most of the income earned by partnerships.
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The House Monday approved a $516 billion measure funding 14 Cabinet agencies and funding for troops in Afghanistan, setting the stage for a year-end budget deal with the White House.
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A majority of Republicans today joined all Democrats on the panel in supporting a major expansion of the Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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The House Appropriations Committee Thursday approved $153 million in pet projects, rewarding both powerful and not-so-powerful lawmakers alike with 377 cherished "earmarks" for their home districts.
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The DemocratsÃ¢ÂÂ capture of a House majority in the 2006 elections has translated into a fundraising boon for the partyÃ¢ÂÂs national House campaign organization, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The committee brought in $8.6 million in September alone, according to its most recent report to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), more than tripling the $2.6 million in receipts reported by its partisan counterpart, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).
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The Christian Science Monitor - Just 35 hours after they passed a $2.8 trillion budget for FY 2007 with zero Democratic votes, House Republicans ran into a wall: the division between appropriators and fiscal hawks in their own ranks.
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The House of Representatives on  Saturday passed a $32 billion bill funding homeland security  programs this year after days of political fighting over the  measure.
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When the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives passed one of its first spending bills, funding the Energy Department for the rest of 2007, it proudly boasted that the legislation contained no money earmarked for lawmakers' pet projects and stressed that any prior congressional r...
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WASHINGTON - Republicans whisked a $388 billion spending bill through Congress on Saturday, a mammoth measure that underscores the dominance of deficit politics by curbing dollars for everything from education to environmental cleanups.
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.
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Breaking with their party, a handful of Democrats in competitive congressional races voted to approve President Bush's system to interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects.
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The national, state and local party organizations of the Republican and Democratic parties spent a combined total of about $1.1 billion on elections for federal office in the 2005-06 election cycle, according to data released Wednesday by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
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Capping a stunning year of record fund raising by both sides, the Democratic National Committee said Thursday it outraised President Bush's GOP this election cycle. Its Republican rival wasn't disputing that, but noted the money didn't buy victory.
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There are plenty of signs that Republicans are hunkering down against an aggressive and well-financed Democratic effort to reclaim the House majority it lost in 1994 Ã¢ÂÂ including the $12.5 million in Ã¢ÂÂindependent expendituresÃ¢ÂÂ that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) reported making in September.
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The Democratic National Committee is donating &#36;2 million to help the party's House and Senate fund-raising operations prepare for the 2006 elections.