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Democrats would move a step closer to a majority of U.S. House seats if they win a special election today in South Carolina. Getting the rest of the way will be much tougher.
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The last time the U.S. Congress considered a broad revision to immigration laws was in 2007, when more than half of today’s House Republicans weren’t even elected.
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Republicans are in a strong position to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year as political analysts predict that Democrats will fall more than a dozen seats short of a majority in the Nov. 6 election.
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New York Democrat Kathy Hochul won her U.S. House seat in 2011 by attacking a Republican plan to partially privatize Medicare. This year she is emphasizing trade, jobs and the economy in her re-election campaign.
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For a first-hand account of Brazilians’ increased spending power , visit Ana Paula Galvani at the Sherry-Lehmann wine shop on New York’s Park Avenue.
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s super- political action committee is wading into the state’s U.S. Senate race and three competitive House races in an unusual move to help Republicans and shape her state’s congressional delegation.
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Meet Donna Edwards of Maryland, a veteran congresswoman who represents the new face of Democrats in the U.S. House.
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The road to a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives used to run through the industrial battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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U.S. Representative Allen West, a first-term Republican backed by the Tea Party, conceded his race in Florida to Democrat Patrick Murphy after two weeks of challenging the Nov. 6 election results.
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Representative Mike McIntyre is campaigning on extending tax cuts for all income levels, repealing President Barack Obama’s health-care law and blocking illegal immigration. Republicans respond with a familiar refrain: He’s still a Democrat.