Congress

Friday is the first time leaders of both political parties and President Obama have met on this important issue since the November 6th election.

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House Republicans have elected a woman to a top leadership post after the GOP suffered double-digit losses among female voters in last week's election.

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A congressional official says House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has told her party caucus she will remain as minority leader in the new session of Congress.

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After working very hard for the past seven weeks to hold onto their jobs, Congress goes back to Washington to "relax," but hopefully get something done.

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This is an open letter to Senators John Thune, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, and the other 98 members of the greatest deliberative body in the world.

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I had a listener call up the other day with a rather unique idea on how we can get Government to actually get something done.

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The election is over, and with a few exceptions, the picture in Washington is going to be pretty much the same.

President Obama in his second term will have to find ways to work with a divided Congress who, despite all the talk of "reaching across the aisle" and "building bridges," could just wind up going on as it has before

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I heard it again last night:

"South Dakota's lone US House seat."

Right. South Dakota has one seat in the US House.

But why is it always our "lone" seat?

Can't it just be South Dakota's US House seat?

The offender of my sensibilities this time was a TV station, although usually it's a news service

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The prospect of a one-two punch of tax increases and slashing, automatic spending cuts will still confront lawmakers when they return to Washington after Election Day.

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They have a lot on their plates.

Senators and Representatives in Congress went back to work on Monday, after their August recess and before the November elections.

It's too early for anybody to call them "lame-ducks," but we probably get the feeling that the American people will be calling them a lot of things if they don't get something done

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