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New Veto Loss May Spur Democratic Spending Cuts

By David Rogers
Wall Street Journal
November 16, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Democrats prepared to scale back their demands for more domestic spending after the House narrowly failed to override President Bush's veto of a popular $150.7 billion bill for education, labor and medical research…

House Passes Bill Curbing Mortgage Brokers

By Damian Paletta and James R. Hagerty
Wall Street Journal
November 16, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The House passed legislation to give more protection to home-mortgage borrowers, but deadlocks in the Senate make it unlikely that such a measure can be enacted into law before next year, in the latest sign Congress is struggling to address the nation's mortgage crisis…

Pelosi: War, Immigration Hurt Public Approval of Congress
Speaker Says Clinton Can 'Hold Her Own'

By David S. Broder and Chris Cillizza
Washington Post
November 15, 2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today blamed Congress' failure to bring an end to the war in Iraq and deal effectively with the reform of immigration laws as the primary causes of the institution's near-record low approval ratings…

Farm reform fizzles in Congress

By Amanda Paulson
Christian Science Monitor
November 16, 2007

Despite many calls for change, the Senate's $286 billion bill is likely to continue the status quo…

'Pork' still reigns on Capitol Hill

By Gail Russell Chaddock
Christian Science Monitor
November 16, 2007

Lawmakers have dropped in at least 12,000 earmarks worth $24.7 billion…

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THE DEBATE

Democrats' Las Vegas Debate Focuses on Top Three Contenders

By Jackie Calmes and Christopher Cooper
Wall Street Journal
November 15, 2007

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Democratic presidential candidates debated in what amounted to Round Two of their feisty encounter two weeks ago in Philadelphia, targeting frontrunner Hillary Clinton from the start with help from the moderators, and sparring over health care, illegal immigration, war and trade…

Clinton Takes Aggressive Tack at Debate

By Patrick Healy and Christine Hauser
New York Times
November 16, 2007

Senator Clinton challenged her rival’s positions and warned them that they risked playing into the hands of Republicans by attacking a fellow Democrat…

Democratic Contenders Step Up Attacks in Debate

By Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz
Washington Post
November 16, 2007

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15 -- Sen. Barack Obama accused Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of being duplicitous in her presidential campaign in one of several sharp exchanges that marked the Democratic debate Thursday night as one of the most heated to date…

Hillary Hits Back

By Chris Cillizza
Washington Post
November 15, 2007

After months of laughing off attacks from her Democratic rivals, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) struck back against jabs by Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) during tonight's presidential debate in Las Vegas…

Democrats face off in Las Vegas debate

Associated Press
November 15, 2007

Obama and Clinton trade jabs as the hopefuls jockey for position in the pre-primary polls…

Would you commit to support the party's candidate?

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
November 15, 2007

Delaware's Biden gets off a good line during tonight's Democratic debate in Las Vegas…

Democrats' debate turns to mud

By John McCormick and Christi Parsons
Chicago Tribune
November 15, 2007

LAS VEGAS - The Democratic candidates for president had hardly stepped on stage for their debate here Thursday night when the political insults started dropping faster than Flying Elvises…

OBAMA

Obama Receives Recommendation for Endorsement

By Jeff Zeleny
New York Times
November 15, 2007

The vote was a straw poll of U.A.W. Region 4 local unions, which includes Illinois…

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THE FIELD

50 Days Out: GOP Race Continues to Confound

By Chris Cillizza
Washington Post
November 15, 2007

Fifty days before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican presidential race remains remarkably wide open, with none of the candidates able to break from the pack…

Evangelical flocks on their own at the polls

By Stephanie Simon and Mark Z. Barabak
Los Angeles Times
November 15, 2007

Conservative Christian leaders are increasingly reluctant to get political, leaving a key Republican voting bloc divided. The trend may help Giuliani but hurt the GOP in the long term…

McCAIN

McCain Finds Sympathy on Torture Issue

By Marc Santora
New York Times
November 16, 2007

Voters are often captivated by Senator McCain’s speeches on torture, even though many don’t agree with him…

Turning the B-Word into Cash

By Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
November 15, 2007

John McCain has found a way to use a questioner's slur against Hillary Rodham Clinton in a fund-raising bid…

McCain campaign 'sabotaged'

Los Angeles Times Top of the Ticket
November 15, 2007

At least that's what he says. But it could have just been vapor lock…

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Mukasey Moves to Fill Department Vacancies

Associated Press
November 15, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Two former federal judges will hold the two top Justice Department jobs if newly sworn-in Attorney General Michael Mukasey has his way…