Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed
one Republican and two Democratic nominees to fill open
commissioner seats at the Securities and Exchange Commission,
returning the agency to full strength as it tackles oversight
of big U.S. investment banks and other issues.
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AP - The Senate confirmed Elizabeth Duke on Friday to become a member of the Federal Reserve, which has been battling housing, credit and financial crises with a short staff.
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Reuters - The U.S. Senate confirmed a career
community banker to the Federal Reserve Board on Friday, but
left two other Bush nominees languishing in a compromise that
brings the central bank only partway to full strength at a time
of unusual economic stress.
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AFP - The US Senate has approved a bill to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from the US terror watch list, lawmakers said Friday.
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AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit the Middle East and Europe this summer, taking time off from campaigning in the United States in an effort to boost his foreign policy credentials.
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AP - Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration.
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AP - Appearing together in solidarity, Republican John McCain and Iraq’s president said Saturday that the war-ravaged country is making significant but fragile progress.
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AP - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama on Saturday vied for the support of Hispanics, beginning a four-month courtship of a pivotal voting constituency by vowing to revamp immigration policy.
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AP - The Senate on Thursday put off voting on controversial electronic surveillance legislation, in spite of what appeared to be overwhelming support for the bill.
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AFP - The US Senate late Thursday approved a 1.6 billion dollar, three-year package of anti-drug assistance to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean known as the “Merida Initiative.”
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