- Automakers plead for aid, but Senate votes lacking
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AP - Imperiled automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring. The Senate's Democratic leader said there still weren't enough votes to tap the $700 billion federal bailout fund to prop up the foundering Big Three.
- Experimental cotton unlikely to pose feed hazard
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AP - An unauthorized strain of genetically modified cotton was accidentally mixed in with other harvested cotton in Texas last month, but government officials on Wednesday played down any safety concerns.
- Obama is delivering diversity, but some seek more
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AP - Barack Obama, soon to be the first black U.S. president, is on the road to making good his pledge to have a Cabinet and White House staff that are among most diverse ever, although some supporters are asking him to go even further.
- Will voters elect a Bush again?
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Politico - His big brother helped drag the GOP to two consecutive thrashings at the polls, but former Gov. Jeb Bush’s prospective Senate candidacy is nevertheless getting a hero’s welcome from Florida Republicans.
- Victorious Chambliss looks for bigger role in GOP
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AP - A double digit win in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff could make Saxby Chambliss a star in a Republican party hungry for fresh leadership. Just weeks ago, he was battling for political survival after neither he nor his Democratic opponent got more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election, forcing Tuesday's runoff, which Chambliss won handily.
