<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - South Dakota</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/sd?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><description>South Dakota</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Sen. Jeffords Says He Plans to Step Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeffords (I-Vt.), whose abrupt defection from the Republican Party in May 2001 handed control of the Senate to the Democrats for 19 months, will not seek a fourth term in 2006 due to his and his wife's health problems.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frist Likely to Push for Ban on Filibusters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54661-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54661-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is all but certain to press for a rule change that would ban filibusters of judicial nominations in the next few weeks.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[COAST TO COAST]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3905-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3905-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Rhode Island Student Reinstated After Flap Over Principal Photos <br>For the irreverent student with a digital camera and a Web site devoted to exposing the truth, it was the scoop of the century.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daschle Joins Law Firm]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32604-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32604-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) has moved from Capitol Hill to K Street, joining Alston & Bird as a special adviser in the law firm's legislative and public policy group.]]></description><author> Christopher Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reid and Kerry, With Swords Drawn]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10395-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10395-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan isn't the only one in town to get himself crosswise with Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). Ask Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).]]></description><author> Dan Balz and Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Daschle, Democrats Are the Farewell Party]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64660-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64660-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Everybody  leaves the world's most exclusive club sometime, and last night the tribute at the National Building Museum was for a man who had left it most reluctantly -- Democrat Tom Daschle, tossed out of the Senate in November by the good people of South Dakota after an expensive and contentious race.]]></description><author> Ann Gerhart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[COAST TO COAST]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56600-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56600-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Florida Revels in Report of Six-Foot Python in Toilet <br> It has been a good long while since Dave Barry, esteemed chronicler of everything kooky, declared "a worldwide epidemic of snakes in toilets."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group to Coordinate Attack on Bush Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51517-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51517-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A nonprofit organization with close ties to organized labor plans to raise $25 million to $50 million in an elaborate campaign to pressure lawmakers to vote against President Bush's proposal to create personal investment accounts for Social Security reform.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balancing Nevada, National Interests]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52469-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52469-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. Harry M. Reid, at times, has had to balance his party's national political agenda against his state's more parochial economic interests.]]></description><author> Thomas B. Edsall</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Voice From Above, And to the Left]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61992-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61992-2005Jan9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The most widely carried liberal on radio is a "prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative" who broadcasts from the unlikely locale of North Dakota.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[109th Congress Meets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48427-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48427-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The new Republican senators sworn into office on Tuesday promise to be the vanguard of a renewed congressional push to revamp Social Security, rewrite the tax code, limit civil liabilities and place conservative judges on the federal bench.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Troubled Firms Turned Into Top Performers in 2004]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43496-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43496-2005Jan2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Flirting with bankruptcy is getting to be the most reliable way for Washington investors  to pick a top-performing local stock.]]></description><author> Jerry Knight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Democratic Senate Chief Says He Won't Yield]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10764-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10764-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though landing slightly to the right of his party's average score on congressional ratings, Sen. Harry M. Reid is ready to go toe-to toe with President Bush and the Senate's GOP majority on the biggest issues facing the 109th Congress.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Returning to a Home on the Range]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3225-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3225-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[About 100 buffalo rounded up to make the return trip their ancestors never made -- to a Lakota Indian reservation in South Dakota, in an arrangement designed to relieve the overstressed island and to replenish the thinning ranks of bison in their native Great Plains.]]></description><author> Amy Argetsinger</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Tumultuous  Tenure, Daschle Departs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57921-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57921-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) has little taste for political postmortems -- particularly his own -- as he prepares to depart from the Senate this week after a quarter-century in politics.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frist Political Fund Can't Cover Bank Loan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26558-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26558-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A campaign fund controlled by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has lost almost $460,000 in stock market investments since 2000, according to federal election records and the manager of the Frist account.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan and Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Chief Fulwood Approved for U.S. Parole Panel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6121-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6121-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former D.C. police chief Isaac Fulwood Jr. has been confirmed by the Senate for a seat on the U.S. Parole Commission, which has responsibility for prisoners sentenced in federal and D.C. courts.]]></description><author> Martin Weil and Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Farewell, Daschle Emphasizes Cooperation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63689-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63689-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With few Republicans in attendance, the Senate minority leader bade an emotional farewell Friday, urging his colleagues of the past 18 years to find a new "common ground" for cooperation.]]></description><author> Helen Dewar</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reid Tapped to Lead Senate Democrats]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52543-2004Nov15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52543-2004Nov15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Still recovering from their crushing losses on Nov. 2, Senate Democrats today will turn to Harry M. Reid (Nev.), a quiet insider and consensus-builder, to succeed Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) as their minority leader.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Vow to Hold Bush Accountable]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37999-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37999-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/sd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2005 23:05:49 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Making no apologies for the campaign in which they lost congressional seats and the presidential race, lawmakers return to D.C. vowing to hold the president accountable for his handling of the deficit, the Iraq war and other issues.]]></description><author> Charles Babington  and Dan Balz</author></item></channel></rss>