Veteran U.S. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania stunned the Washington establishment by announcing he is leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat. The move will bring Democrats closer to the 60-vote majority they need to overcome potenti

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Paula Wolfson The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the Saudi government bears part of the blame for the latest terrorist attack in that country. Senator Richard Lugar says

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By Jim Malone Washington 28 September 2007 In the crowded field of Republican presidential contenders, perhaps no one is better known than Senator John McCain of Arizona. McCain is making his second run for the White House in 2008, and VOA National C

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 14 March 2006 A U.S. Senate Democrat has introduced legislation to censure President Bush for authorizing the warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens. Russ Feingold (file

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By Meredith Buel Islamabad 19 February 2008 An influential member of the U.S. Congress, Senator Joseph Biden, is proposing a massive increase in non-military financial aid to Pakistan. Senator Biden made the proposal during a news conference in Islam

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 23 August 2007 An influential U.S. Senate Republican says President Bush should announce an initial withdrawal of troops from Iraq on September 15. Senator John Warner of Virginia made his comments to reporters Thursday,

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By Jim Malone Washington 23 May 2006 Former Treasury Secretary and US Senator Lloyd Bentsen (Undated file photo) Former U.S. Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen has died in Texas at the age o

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By Michael Bowman Washington 20 May 2008 One of America's best-known political figures, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, the diagnosis comes days afte

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By Carol Pearson Washington 21 May 2008 Doctors performed a biopsy on U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and announced Tuesdaythat they found a malignant brain tumor. The Democrat and elder statesman of American liberal politics suffered a siezure last Satu

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Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington (file photo 15 May 2008) Senator Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat and the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, has died at the age of 9

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The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a sweeping federal tax bill that will swell America's national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars and, it is hoped, stimulate a lagging U.S. economy. Attention now shifts to the House of Representative

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Senator Kerry Has Extensive Foreign Policy Credentials Globetrotting and world affairs are nothing new to John Kerry, a five-term senator who is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. His duties have taken him to conflict zones and kept him

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U.S. Senator Jim Webb, who won the release of an American prisoner in Burma, says the United States must develop new ways to bring about political and economic change in the isolated state. Senator Webb called on China to end its silence on Burma an

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U.S. Senator Jim Webb, who recently held talks with Burma's military leaders, says the government denies reports that it is trying to acquire nuclear technology. The senator also says Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has indicated a willin

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U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, the elder statesman of America's most famous political family, is dead at the age of 77 (born 2/22/32) after a battle with brain cancer. He was the youngest brother of slain President John Kennedy. The life of the Massac

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 26 November 2007 The U.S. Senate's number two Republican, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, has announced he will retire next month. He becomes the sixth Republican to announce plans to leave the Senate, where Democrats

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By Jim Malone Washington 12 July 2006 Iraq is expected to be a major factor in this year's U.S. congressional election campaign. In the second of two reports, VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has more on how Iraq has become a prominent issue in

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By Brian Wagner Caracas 02 December 2007 A leading U.S. senator has rejected allegations by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that Washington is seeking to destabilize the South American nation. In Caracas, VOA's Brian Wagner reports Mr. Chavez is in

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By Alex Villarreal Washington 17 November 2007 U.S. veteran Senator Edward Kennedy is calling on his colleagues in Congress and the international community to do more for Sudan's troubled region of Darfur. He drew attention to the crisis while presen

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He became a Democratic Massachusetts senator in 1962, replacing his brother when he resigned to become president, and was re-elected seven times. Senator Kennedy had been a dominant force in liberal US politics for almost half a century. Recently, h

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