2016 congressional election
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Biden, Supreme Court nominee on Hill to pressure GOP
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Judge Merrick Garland found himself back on Capitol Hill on Thursday in a familiar place – meeting with a Democratic senator who used the visit to complain about Republicans’ inaction on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. said he met with Garland to “see…
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Pelosi to Ryan: Don’t use hacked documents in campaigns
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday to keep Republican candidates from using hacked Democratic documents in this year’s election campaigns, the latest political twist in a summer of revelations of digital break-ins believed linked to Russia. “Russia’s cyber attack is an unprecedented assault on the sanctity of our democratic process,”…