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		<title>Senate OKs Giffords anti-smuggling bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords#39; emotional departure from Congress, the Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the president the final legislative act sponsored by the Arizona Democrat who was severely wounded in an assassination attempt a year ago.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords#39; emotional departure from Congress, the Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the president the final legislative act sponsored by the Arizona Democrat who was severely wounded in an assassination attempt a year ago.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate shoots down Democrat &#8216;right to work&#8217; changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate voted down Democrat attempts to alter the controversial quot;right to workquot; legislation, including rejecting an amendment calling for a referendum that will let the public decide the issue this November.]]></description>
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		<title>Lexington&#8217;s Kathy Stein would lose Senate seat under plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFORT — A Democrat from far Western Kentucky will soon represent downtown Lexington in the state Senate under a redistricting plan approved by the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[FRANKFORT — A Democrat from far Western Kentucky will soon represent downtown Lexington in the state Senate under a redistricting plan approved by the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Former La Senate president Sammy Nunez dies at 81</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Louisiana Senate president Sammy Nunez, a Chalmette Democrat who served in the Legislature from 1964 has died.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Former Louisiana Senate president Sammy Nunez, a Chalmette Democrat who served in the Legislature from 1964 has died.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Former La Senate president Sammy Nunez dies at 81</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Louisiana Senate president Sammy Nunez, a Chalmette Democrat who served in the Legislature from 1964 until he was swept out of office in an anti-incumbent wave three decades later, has died. He was 81.]]></description>
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		<title>Former Senate president Sammy Nunez dead at 81</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Bernard Democrat served as Senate president twice]]></description>
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		<title>GOP to add a seat to NY Senate, protecting power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York's Senate Republicans, hoping to hold their slim majority, said Tuesday they plan to add a seat to the chamber under a redistricting process that one Democrat called a farce.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[New York's Senate Republicans, hoping to hold their slim majority, said Tuesday they plan to add a seat to the chamber under a redistricting process that one Democrat called a farce.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bolling says Constitution gives him power to give GOP Senate majority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrat says his lawsuit on the matter will proceed RICHMOND – Despite a pending lawsuit, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said Tuesday he believes that as president of the Senate he does have the power to hand Republicans control of the evenly divided chamber.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Democrat says his lawsuit on the matter will proceed RICHMOND – Despite a pending lawsuit, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said Tuesday he believes that as president of the Senate he does have the power to hand Republicans control of the evenly divided chamber.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senate DFLer Bakk seeks further review of handling of Koch case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Senate's lead Democrat is asking newly elected Senate Majority Leader Dave Senjem to promptly address any lingering issues surrounding the resignation of his predecessor, who stepped down amid revelations of an inappropriate relationship with staffer.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate&#8217;s top Democrat calls for review of handling of Koch resignation</title>
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