CQPolitics.com - Here’s how fast the money chase has accelerated in the still-early contest for the 2008 presidential nominations: The amounts raised individually between April and June by each of the two leading aspirants for the Democratic nomination appear likely to match or exceed the totals raised in the parallel period by the top five contenders for the party’s 2004 nod — combined.

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AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has improved on his stunning support in the race for campaign cash, raising his total number of donors to more than 250,000 people in the first six months of the year.

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Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential hopefuls
last night called for higher taxes on wealthy Americans and more
federal spending on education, health care and programs to
alleviate poverty.

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Reuters - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and
the other Democratic presidential contenders battled for black
support on Thursday with attacks on the ravages of racism,
promises to lift up the poor and pledges to do more for Africa.

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CQPolitics.com - After six weeks of negotiations, parliamentary maneuvering and White House entreaties, the Senate rejected President Bush’s vision of an immigration overhaul, likely killing the legislation until after the 2008 elections.

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CQPolitics.com - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was just moments from signing off on creation of a conference committee for a lobbying and ethics bill. Then he got a call, and the action was derailed for the second time this week.

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AFP - The US Senate on Friday passed a bill that would strengthen scrutiny by the government and intelligence services of foreign takeovers of US firms on national security grounds.

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AFP - A fifth of the members of the US Senate on Friday warned the situation in Afghanistan was quickly getting worse and called on Washington's NATO allies to share more of the security burden.

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Reuters - A Senate committee on Thursday
joined the House of Representatives in defying a White House
veto threat and moving to reverse a ban on contraception aid to
overseas groups that offer abortion.

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CQPolitics.com - According to Congressional Quarterly’s just-published political reference Politics in America 2008: The 110th Congress, which committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has the most members?

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