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Democrats maintain control of Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the...
Tags: Tammy Baldwin, Bill Nelson, Bob Corker, Politics, Richard Lugar
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Maryland investment firms haven't abandoned Democrats
Wall Street might have turned its back on Democrats this election, but that's not the case among Maryland investment firms. The vast majority of contributions to candidates by T. Rowe Price employees went to Democrats. And Democrats were the...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, Financial and Business Services
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Mikulski, Cardin seek more help for chicken farmers
U.S. Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin joined an informal Chicken Caucus of senators Monday to urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to step up efforts to help the mid-Atlantic poultry industry cope with the economic impact of drought....Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Barbara A. Mikulski, Livestock Farming, Democratic Party
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Lawmakers strike deal to save Eastern Shore mail center, but area post offices still vulnerable
Key senators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday to save a mail processing center considered significant to the Eastern Shore economy but left the fate of more than a dozen post offices in the Baltimore region uncertain as they considered a sweeping...
Tags: Ocean City, U.S. Postal Service, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Easton (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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Tags: Mail Order Industry, Politics, Government Postal Delivery, Career and Workplace, U.S. Senate
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Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Republican Party, Bob Corker, Financial and Business Services, Politics
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Fairness for Eastern Shore chicken farmers
Within the poultry industry, company dealings with the farmers they contract with have been one-sided for at least the past 20 years. It's been a long, hard battle for contract farmers to try to gain any fairness in that relationship; I can't count the...Tags: Pocomoke City, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Companies and Corporations, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Justice
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Post office closings: Necessary but insufficient
Ten Baltimore area post offices are at risk of closing. They are among 41 in Maryland and 3,700 nationwide that the Postal Service says it can no longer afford to operate, either because they don't have enough patrons or are located near another post...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Business, Maine, Human Interest, Maryland
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Rahm Emanuel: Health-care 'milestone'
The Swampby Mark Silva This, the White House makes clear, is not the goal line. With the Senate Finance Committee's passage of health-care legislation today, the fifth of five House and Senate committees with jurisdiction to adopt reforms having acted, the......Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Health, White House
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Obama Veep Watch
The Swampby The Swamp team With so much attention on whom Sen. Barack Obama is going to choose as his vice presidential running mate, we thought we'd try to monitor the rumors and speculation and try to separate the wheat......Tags: Scranton, Evan Bayh, John Kerry, Politics, Timothy M. Kaine
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Lieberman regrets some Obama remarks
The Swampby James Oliphant Move over James Bond. There's a new indestructible action hero: Joe Lieberman. The senator from Connecticut, who was vilified by Democratic activists for his support of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, escaped serious...Tags: Ben Nelson, Connecticut, National Government, Republican National Conventions, Politics
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