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Law Remakes U.S. Financial Landscape: Senate Passes Overhaul That Will Touch Most AmericansDAMIAN PALETTA And AARON LUCCHETTI The Wall Street Journal 07/15/2010 | Voters' support for members of Congress is at an all-time low, poll finds The Washington Post 06/08/2010 |
 Congress approved a rewrite of rules touching every corner of finance, from ATM cards to Wall Street traders, in the biggest expansion of government power over banking and markets since the Depression. |  As voters head to the polls Tuesday for a crucial set of primary elections, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds antipathy toward their elected officials rising and anti-incumbent sentiment at an all-time high. |
Report: Congress makes too many vague lawsMARK SHERMAN Yahoo! News 05/04/2010 | US Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyersJIM ABRAMS AP 11/05/2009 |
 A conservative think tank and criminal defense lawyers are forming an unusual alliance to try to get Congress to quit writing criminal laws so loosely that they subject innocent people to unjust prosecution and prison. |  WASHINGTON — The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to over a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market. |
Former U.S. senator Brooke awarded Congressional Gold Medal CNN 10/29/2009 | Congress Rejects Successful DC Schools Program Center for Education Reform 07/09/2009 |
 Washington (CNN) -- Edward Brooke, the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, was honored Wednesday with a Congressional Gold Medal. |  Led by Senior Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the full Appropriations Committee today moved to full Senate consideration a bill terminating the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program after the 2009-10 school year and reducing funds for those currently in the program. |
US Congress May Need to Fund Another Stimulus, Pelosi SaysLori Montgomery The Washington Post 03/10/2009 | US Congress spending vote stirs earmarks debateZachary Coile San Francisco Chronicles 03/03/2009 |
 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that the federal government may have to spend even more money to shore up the nation's ailing economy, on top of the more than $1.6 trillion so far approved by Congress. |  Washington - To Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the $7.7 billion in earmarks tucked into a $410 billion spending bill are wasteful pork. But those are fighting words to Tony Pearsall, a former police captain and city councilman in Vallejo, whose nonprofit group would get one of those earmarks. |
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