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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!President Obama has made health care reform his top legislative priority on Capitol Hill. But several time-sensitive and controversial measures are threatening to derail the Democrats' plans for health care by year's end unless the Senate can quickly pass reform legislation and attend to at least a dozen other looming bills within the next several weeks. From appropriations bills that must pass by Dec. 18 to contested portions of the USA Patriot Act, which expire on Dec. 31, to the estate tax, which will drop from 45 percent to zero on Jan. 1, the items remaining on the Senate's agenda would ...
The Senate began impeachment proceedings this morning against Samuel B. Kent, a federal judge in Texas who has refused to resign from his lifetime appointment to the bench before 2010, even though he is currently serving a 33-month sentence in federal prison for obstruction of justice. This is the the first impeachment in Congress since then-President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House and subsequently acquitted by the Senate in 1999. Last year, Kent was indicted on multiple counts of sexual misconduct after two former employees filed complaints, saying he repeatedly made unwanted sexual ...
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