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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's Senate stalemate ended Thursday as it started 31 days ago, with a freshman Democrat convulsing the 62-seat house by switching sides and getting a powerful leadership post in the majority.
But it took less than 30 minutes on the Senate floor for partisan fights to emerge, with Republicans initially threatening two-hour debates on each of more than 100 noncontroversial bills.
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A serious question for all those watching the Sonia Sotomayor hearings: Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D'oh! A wise Latina might let us...
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Reporting from Washington -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor proclaimed Tuesday that she would not let ethnic or gender biases influence her decisions on the court...
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WASHINGTON — In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor quipped that she had been a "pretty good litigator" in her day and adept at persuasion...
Sotomayor answers her Senate critics
Jul 14th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington -- Skeptical Republicans did no serious damage to President Obama's Supreme Court nominee during the first full day of questioning today, as an unruffled Judge Sonia Sotomayor cautiously...
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