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HOUSE DEMOCRATIC Leader Nancy Pelosi poked fun at the possibility that former Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee, a Republican turned independent, might be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. / PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Nancy Pelosi not wild about Lincoln Chafee’s presidential candidacy

Government 04/17/2015

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday poked fun at the possibility that former Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee, a Republican turned independent, might be...

House Republicans weigh joining Export-Import, spending bill

Entrepreneurship 09/09/2014

WASHINGTON - House leaders will ask the rank-and-file to consider allowing a short-term re-authorization of the Export-Import Bank, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions...

ON THURSDAY, the U.S. Senate reached an agreement on a Democratic proposal for a three-month extension of federal unemployment benefits that was introduced by Rhode Island's Democratic Sen. Jack Reed and Nevada's Republican Sen. Dean Heller. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/JOSHUA ROBERTS

Senators reach deal on Reed’s plan to revive jobless benefits

Government 03/14/2014

WASHINGTON – U.S. senators reached an agreement that would restore benefits for the long-term unemployed that expired late last year and that the Obama...

THE INTEREST RATE FOR UNDERGRADUATE student loans will increase to 6.8 percent from 3.4 percent on July 1. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL OKONIEWSKI

Inaction means student-loan interest rates will double next week

Economic Activity 06/28/2013

NEW YORK - The rate that undergraduates from poor families pay for student loans will double on July 1. U.S. senators have departed for...

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