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GOP offers new proposal on student loans

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The plan outlined by Congressional Republicans offers new ways to break the political impasse that threatens to drive up student loan rates July 1.

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Obama endorses in New Jersey House primary

The president backs the lawmaker who backed his 2008 presidential campaign — instead of the lawmaker who backed Hillary Clinton

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Not yet a candidate, but Bush gets treated like one

Democrats use the former Florida governor’s appearance at a Congressional committee to pin him down on touchy issues — just in case

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Who says Congress can’t speak well?

“I deem the Sunlight Foundation’s findings fatuous,” one congressman said in a House floor speech.

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Republicans outline new ideas for keeping student loan rates low

GOP opens new negotiations on the politically charged issue that had appeared to be at a stalemate.

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‘Sex-selective abortion’ bill fails

But conservatives vow to make abortion a campaign-trail issue.

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GIRDWOOD, AK - NOVEMBER 02:  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) emerges from a voting booth after filling out her ballot on November 2, 2010 in Girdwood, Alaska. Murkowski is defending her Senate seat as a write-in candidate in a three-way midterm race with Republican Joe Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams. If Murkowski wins, she would be the first successful write-in candidate for Senate since Strom Thurmond in 1954.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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The U.S. Congress Votes Database documents every vote and every member of the House and Senate since 1991.

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