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Is Harold Ford Jr. the next 'great black hope'?
8:30 AM on 01/07/2010
OPINION - Meet Harold Ford Jr., a former Congressman from Tennessee who has now become the next Barack Obama, at least in the eyes of enthusiastic Democrats...
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Lousiana congressman remains free on bond during appeal
6:32 PM on 11/18/2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former Louisiana congressman who was sentenced to 13 years in prison on bribery charges will be allowed to remain free on bond...
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Former congressman William Jefferson gets 13 years in prison
7:48 AM on 11/14/2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Prosecutors called a former Louisiana congressman's corruption the most extensive in the history of Congress...
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Do black congressmen still represent black interests?
9:00 AM on 10/09/2009
OPINION -- All eyes are on Rep. Charlie Rangel again this week as finger-pointing Republicans continue to pursue punishing him for ethics violations...
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Too rich for Medicaid, too poor for private insurance
2:30 PM on 10/08/2009
VIDEO - Health care reform takes time, but 26-year-old Melissa Horsford is tired of waiting...
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Jury convicts former U.S. congressman of bribery
3:14 PM on 08/05/2009
A jury in suburban Washington has convicted former U.S. congressman William Jefferson on 11 of 16 counts including bribery in a case in which agents found $90,000 in his freezer.
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Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers
CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island (AP) - A union is condemning an effigy of President Obama that was hung upside down by a teacher at a failing Rhode Island high school...
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