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         <title><![CDATA[GOP Team Targets Democrats]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House and Senate Republicans for several weeks have quietly coordinated an intense, disciplined effort to defeat President Barack Obama's health care reform legislation, timed to scare Democrats just as they prepare for a final vote.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44342-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Republicans Grapple With Earmarks]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[GOP leaders in the House are pressing forward with implementation of a strict unilateral earmark ban despite the fact that their colleagues in the Senate appear to have no interest in playing along. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44341-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Counsel Bats Away Subpoenas]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Convicted felon Frederick Celani's history is a long, complicated tale — one in which the con man has claimed to work for the FBI and a House investigative subcommittee, and now stands charged with mail fraud for an alleged Ponzi scheme. But the latest chapter, the one in which he's subpoenaed Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) to appear in federal court, should be relatively short.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44339-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Heard on the Hill: Not Exactly Good Sports]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Looks like Rep. John Campbell won't be rooting for Maryland in the NCAA tournament.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/hoh/44343-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Enters Health Care Endgame]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After staying relatively quiet for more than a week at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) request, Senate Democrats re-engaged in the health care debate Wednesday as the push for an overhaul began to reach a critical stage in both chambers.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44338-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dodd Woos Democratic, GOP Votes]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nearly every Senator agrees in theory that financial regulatory reform needs to be addressed this year, but Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is finding it difficult to turn that into actual "yes" votes, especially from Republicans.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44337-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Oversight of Police Finances Is Sought]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chairwoman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, said Wednesday that she would like to see Congress give the Government Accountability Office oversight of the Capitol Police's financial arm.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44336-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Members Say They Still Get Lost Inside Visitor Center]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Members of Congress are still getting lost in the hallways of the Capitol Visitor Center more than a year after the underground building opened as the largest-ever addition to the Capitol.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/news/44335-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romney's New Book Gives Him Head Start in 2012 GOP Race]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Given the Republican Party's tendency to pick "the next guy in line" as its presidential nominee, it's no accident that the frontrunners for the 2012 nomination are familiar faces from 2008 — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/kondracke/44327-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can Polling Memos Change the Narrative About 2010 Races?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Here's a bulletin for you: Anytime a campaign releases a polling memo, it is making an argument, not merely offering survey data for your information. Polling memos aren't written to make you smarter.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/rothenberg/44330-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Smith: Long-Term Future Looks Bleak for Republicans]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[If there is one thing most pundits agree on, it is that the Democrats are cruisin' for a bruisin' this November. Whether because of President Barack Obama's overreaching, continued high unemployment levels or the effectiveness of GOP smears, commentators believe Democrats are soon going to look like Superman's sparring partner.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/ma_congressional_relations/44307-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Nix: Congress Can Stretch U.S. Aid With Investments]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[What do the NAACP, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Sierra Club have in common? They recently joined ONE and more than 150 other organizations in a letter to Members of Congress supporting the president's proposed international affairs budget.   ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/ma_congressional_relations/44309-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Game-Winning Shot]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The latest cartoon from R.J. Matson.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/rjmatson/44322-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Health Debate Plays in Money Chase]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With the end of the first quarter just two weeks away and a difficult health care vote looming, the campaigns of some vulnerable House Democrats caught in the middle of the contentious fight aren't optimistic about what they'll show in their first fundraising reports of 2010.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/politics/44334-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rivalry in Philadelphia]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An upstart candidate is giving the early favorite a run for his money in the Democratic primary for a competitive House seat in southeastern Pennsylvania.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/politics/44332-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shop Talk: A Rose by Any Other Name]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) and the general consultant who was advising his primary bid against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have parted ways. Consultant Jason Rose, who advised the campaign on strategy, media and finance, said his resignation from Hayworth's campaign was effective March 12.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/shoptalk/44333-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[New York: Democrats Set to Make Massa Special Pick]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[By the end of the month, Democrats in the 29th district expect to unify around one candidate for the anticipated special election for the seat vacated by ex-Rep. Eric Massa (D).]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44331-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Colorado: Straw Poll Loser Bows Out, Endorses Gardner ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[One day after state Rep. Cory Gardner topped the field in a straw poll, Republican rival Diggs Brown dropped out of the race Wednesday and threw his support to Gardner.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44329-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania: Biden to Campaign for Dent Rival Callahan ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Vice President Joseph Biden will campaign April 15 for House candidate John Callahan (D), the mayor of Bethlehem.  ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44328-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Connecticut: McMahon Now Leads  In GOP Senate Chase]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon now leads former Rep. Rob Simmons in the race for the Republican Senate nomination, according to a Quinnipiac University survey conducted March 9-15.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44326-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Kentucky: Rand Paul Campaign Breaks $2 Million Mark]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate campaign of eye surgeon Rand Paul has topped $2 million in fundraising.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44320-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Nevada: Lowden Hosts Shoot But Becomes Target]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former state Sen. Sue Lowden (R) may not be generating the sort of publicity she intended with her fundraiser at the Clark County Shooting Park on Wednesday.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44321-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Florida: Price Backs Rubio for Senate Nomination  ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (Ga.) is backing former state Speaker Marco Rubio for the GOP Senate nomination.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44323-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Arizona: NRCC Adds Paton to 'Young Guns' Program]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The National Republican Congressional Committee has added House candidate Jonathan Paton to its "Young Guns" program.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44324-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[North Carolina: Senate Primary Voters Largely Undecided]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former state Sen. Cal Cunningham has sliced into Secretary of State Elaine Marshall's lead for the Democratic nomination, but voters are far from ready to make up their minds about who they want in the Senate.   ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/atr/44325-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Staffer by Day, Actor at Night]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[When the curtain came up for a recent rehearsal of the Washington National Opera's upcoming rendition of "Porgy and Bess," Richard Pecantte was ready. As the soaring cadences of the iconic song "Summertime" reverberated off the walls of the Kennedy Center auditorium, Pecantte leaned in close to a craps game, then stalked off after his character lost. As the rehearsal progressed, Pecantte continued to play various roles that required him, among other things, to help carry a body offstage and change costumes twice.Convincing as he was, Pecantte is not a professional actor. During the day, he walks the corridors of Capitol Hill, monitoring financial services as a legislative assistant for Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.). By night he is a supernumerary — a nonsinging extra — for the Washington National Opera, an accidentally discovered experiment that has become a regular pastime.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/ath/44318-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[At Least Our Bad Winter Was No 'Little Ice Age']]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[For Washingtonians inundated by a record amount of snow this February, the wintry weather was more a nuisance than a source of pleasure, the crystalline beauty soon giving way to endless shoveling and plodding through prodigious mountains of slush. The ferocity of winter disrupted the daily rhythms of life.Those who found it difficult to cope might want to visit the National Gallery of Art, where a new exhibition of winter landscape paintings by Hendrick Avercamp reveals how Dutch society adapted to the frigid realities of particularly harsh winters during Europe's "Little Ice Age." In Avercamp's fastidiously detailed works, frozen lakes and rivers become the nexus in which all strata of Dutch society meet and mingle beneath a heavy gray sky.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/ath/44317-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's All About Kansas, Once Again]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In the early years of the 20th century, Kansas was known as a hotbed of radical thinkers. But in more recent years the state has grown into a bastion of conservative politics. How this Midwestern state was transformed into a Republican stronghold is explored in the new documentary "What's the Matter With Kansas?"]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_106/ath/44316-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Photo From the Attic: Oh, Benny Boy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[On March 17, 1939, (from left) Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.), dancer Eunice Healy, band leader Benny Goodman and Sen. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.) celebrated St. Patrick's Day in musical style.]]></description>
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