WASHINGTON - Chanting “Kill the bill,’’ thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats’ health care overhaul protested at the Capitol yesterday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation’s medical system.By: Laurie Kellman|Date: Nov 6, 2009

WASHINGTON - The Senate's second-in-command, Senator Dick Durbin, said yesterday that he hopes a resolution will be reached soon to allow former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to be seated as Barack Obama's successor.By: Laurie Kellman|Date: Jan 12, 2009

Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history's longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and President Barack Obama for his nearly 57 years of service.By: Laurie Kellman|Date: Nov 18, 2009

The Senate is a resolutely superlative place, so it was resolved that the august body on Wednesday will open its session by saluting Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Congress' longest-serving member.By: Laurie Kellman|Date: Nov 17, 2009

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WASHINGTON - The planned city of Candeo Glacia would be powered by hydrogen. Its residents would submit to regular iris scans for security purposes. And the leaves on its bioengineered trees would turn purple at any sign of radioactive material.

That's the way budding engineer Megan Horton, 14, sees the future: not dependent on oil, tightly secured, and quick to detect terrorist threats not imagined by urban planners of the past.

By: Laurie Kellman, Associated Press|Date: Feb 24, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration withdrew its support for the independent counsel law yesterday, saying the Watergate-inspired investigations statute "has failed in its goal of removing politics from the process." Congress should let the law expire on June 30, officials said.

"The act was supposed to increase trust in our government; unfortunately, it has diminished it," Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.

By: Laurie Kellman, Associated Press|Date: Mar 3, 1999

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