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         <title><![CDATA[NRCC Still Sits Out Primaries]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Despite a trio of recent special election losses blamed partly on getting stuck with flawed nominees, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.) has no plans to change his policy of not getting involved in primary contests.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[FEC May Be Back in Business Soon]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission nominee Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department lawyer, dropped his bid late Friday for a seat at the agency, ending a long-standing stalemate that could bring the elections regulator back online by Memorial Day.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Campaign Work Pays Off for Aides]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Continuing a tradition that comes with each election cycle, a small number of top Congressional staffers will likely earn more than the Members they work for this year.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_139/news/25193-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Blue Dogs Aim to Accommodate Growth]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With House Democrats increasingly looking to conservative candidates to grow their majority, members of the fiscally austere Blue Dog Coalition are signaling they will lift their year-old admission cap to accommodate an influx of like-minded freshmen.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_139/news/25220-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gorbey Trial Put Cops in Spotlight]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Michael Gorbey's conviction late last week on 14 counts for his weapons-laden visit to Capitol Hill ended an unusual trial that put Capitol Police in the spotlight.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Heard on the Hill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Carried Away. We knew the burgers at Bullfeathers were good, but it seems a visit to the House-side hangout was enough to sweep one Member of Congress off his feet, literally. Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.) was carried out of Bullfeathers, a popular hangout among House staffers and Members, on Thursday night. Witnesses tell HOH that two men bodily carried the eight-term Congressman from inside the bar out onto the curb on First Street Southeast, where he sat for a bit and then took a respite inside a nearby office building.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Supplemental Taking Unlikely Path]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), a veteran tactician, might have trouble this week shepherding a $250 billion war supplemental that satisfies the domestic spending desires of his caucus while sidestepping a filibuster and veto.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[GOP Relying on Forums to Get Heard]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans have decided to rip a page from their Democratic predecessors' playbook by broadcasting their message at partisan-tinged hearings, aiming to amplify their bullhorn that's been muffled in the minority. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Campus Notebook]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The hundreds of thousands of letters, essays and official documents from America's Founding Fathers may one day be easily accessible online.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Morning Business]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[At the request of Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas), House Republicans will hold a special meeting this week as the GOP continues to take stock of where the party is headed following a string of special election losses.]]></description>
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