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Democrats Predict More of Same in ’05

By Ben Pershing and Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 28, 2004, Midnight

House Members won’t know until at least Wednesday who the president will be in January or what the chamber’s partisan makeup will be in 2005. But lawmakers and aides from both sides of aisle feel confident enough to make one prediction — the next Congress will be even more contentious than this one.

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May 22, 2012

Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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