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<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Vice President Dick Cheney at the premier's official residence in Tokyo, February 21, 2007. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A war of words erupted between Vice President Dick Cheney and the top Democrat in Congress on Wednesday after Cheney said lawmakers opposing a U.S. troop buildup in Iraq "validate the al Qaeda strategy." 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference on the steps of the Iowa Capitol Building before meeting with legislators, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement Wednesday of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who said the White House hopeful "personifies the future of Democratic leadership in our country." 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news conference about energy independence in San Francisco, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 21 2007. At rear is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for tighter ethics rules in federal agencies Wednesday after government officials approved the purchase of a $980,000 vacation home by a top Justice Department lawyer with an oil company lobbyist. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is shown in a file photo from Jan. 7, 2006, in Sioux Falls, S.D. More than two months after suffering a brain hemorrhage, South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson has left a Washington hospital and entered a private rehabilitation facility, his office said Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two months after his brain hemorrhage, South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson has left a Washington hospital and entered a private rehabilitation facility, his office said Tuesday. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Leah Anderson, of Sioux Falls, S.D., who said she regrets having had two abortions, testifies Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, at Pierre, S.D., for a bill to ban most abortions. But the measure, which had been passed earlier in the House, was killed by the Senate State Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/Joe Kafka)" border="0" /></a>AP - A South Dakota bill to ban most abortions in a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade appeared dead Wednesday after a state Senate committee rejected it. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Alleanza Nazionale's right coalition members hold a banner reading 'Prodi go home' as they demonstrate outside Palazzo Chigi in Rome, February 21, 2007. (Dario Pignatelli/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Wednesday, just nine months after winning the closest election in Italy's modern history, when his centre-left coalition suffered a Senate defeat on foreign policy. 

CQPolitics.com - Making sure that the Republicans, now in the House minority, have enough money for their 2008 comeback effort is a top early priority for Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole in his role as the new chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="The United States has "no intention whatsoever" of engaging in military conflict with Iran, said the chairman of the US House of Representatives' foreign relations committee, Tom Lantos, seen here 15 February 2007.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States has "no intention whatsoever" of engaging in military conflict with Iran, the chairman of the US House of Representatives' foreign relations committee, Tom Lantos, said here on Wednesday. 

Rasmussen Reports - For the second straight week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) holds a fourteen percentage point lead in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Giuliani attracts support from 33% of Likely Primary Voters while Arizona Senator John McCain is supported by 19%. A week ago, it was Giuliani 32% McCain 18%.

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott R-Miss., left, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo.. talk to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007 following a meeting with President Bush to discuss his revised Iraq strategy. McConnell had been in the minority for a little more than a month, but an emotion-charged fight in Congress over Iraq would show that the Republican leader from Kentucky was far from powerless.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - Democrats may be in charge of the Senate these days, yet Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is no powerless bystander. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), 2nd L, talks to farmers as he makes a stop on a drought tour at the Oahe Grain Elevator in Onida, South Dakota, in this August 9, 2006 file photo. Johnson, whose brain surgery in December raised speculation that the Democratic majority in Congress could be in jeopardy, has been discharged from a hospital to a private rehabilitation facility, his office said on Tuesday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota, whose brain surgery in December raised speculation that the Democratic majority in Congress could be in jeopardy, has been discharged from a hospital to a private rehabilitation facility, his office said on Tuesday. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., talks with reporters during a news conference in the Capitol Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007 in Washington after Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to pass a nonbinding resolution rebuking President Bush's deployment of additional combat troops to Iraq. Senators Jim Webb, D-Va., left, and Chuck Schumer, D-NY. right, listen. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid questioned Tuesday whether word of a possible British troop withdrawal from Iraq would pressure President Bush into changing his war strategy, and said Senate Democrats will move ahead with their own efforts to limit the president's authority. 

AP - A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years.

CQPolitics.com - New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici is wasting no time putting retirement rumors to rest, staging his first major fundraiser for the 2008 election after months of asserting that he will run next year for a seventh Senate term.

CQPolitics.com - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who last week announced his candidacy for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, debuted as a political candidate with an unsuccessful 1994 challenge to Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who continues to serve — and will celebrate a milestone birthday this Thursday. How old was Romney when Kennedy first won a seat in the Senate?

Rasmussen Reports - There's little change this week in the Democratic nomination contest. Senator Hillary Clinton (D) continues to lead with 28% of the vote from Likely Democratic Primary Voters nationwide. The latest Rasmussen Reports Election 2008 poll shows Senator Barack Obama (D) still in second place with 24% of the vote. Former Senator John Edwards (D) has support from 11% and former Vice President Al Gore (D) weighs in at 10%.

CQPolitics.com - Most House incumbents preparing for their 2008 campaigns won’t have to be asked twice if national party officials offer additional aid. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had no trouble lining up 29 House Democrats as this election cycle’s first enrollees in its “Frontline” program, which targets extra financial and logistical help to incumbents seen as potentially vulnerable to Republican challenges.

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., right, addresses a gathering at Tinker Field as Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer looks on in Orlando, Fla. in this June 2, 2003 file photo. Keller doesn't buy the argument that existing Medicare drug program works and the government should leave well enough alone and let the market dictate pricing - even though his state has many old people and, at 42, he needs a prescription, too. 'I happen to take Lipitor for lower cholesterol,' he said. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rep. Dan Lipinski endures at least nine needle pricks a day to control the diabetes he's had since childhood. Rep. Joe Barton takes a half dozen prescription pills daily to ward off another heart attack. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's little girl may need her fourth open-heart surgery in a few months. Such personal details are spilling out in debates close to home for the lawmakers shaping policy on prescription drugs, stem cell research and more. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This video image provided by APTN shows Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry reid, D-Nev., addressing the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 16, 2007. The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown Saturday as Republicans foiled a Democratic bid to repudiate President Bush's deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops. (AP Photo/APTN)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate Democrats pledged renewed efforts Sunday to curtail the Iraq war, suggesting they will seek to limit a 2002 measure authorizing President Bush's use of force against Saddam Hussein. 

<a href="*"><img src="" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Supporters hold signs to be autographed as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at a town meeting in Dover, N.H. Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has not endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate, but his son has.

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