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...Feingold held his seat against challenger Mark Neumann. Feingold waged a war of principle in his campaign by refusing to exceed a spending cap of $3.8 million and to honor the soft-money ban of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, which continues to fail in the Congress. His challenger, on the other hand, accepted soft money contributions steered his way by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ken), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...make-up of the 106th Congress is not that different from the current one, in terms of numbers. Republicans still hold narrow majorities in both houses. But the spirit of American politics seems to have taken for the better. The victories of the Bush brothers in Texas and Florida indicate that the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and not the reactionary wing, has a future. The Democratic resurgence in the South, marked by the capture of two Senate seats and two governorships (in Georgia and South Carolina), is a welcome shake-up to the country's regional political divide...
BOSTON--Michael E. Capuano (D), the mayor of Somerville, was decisively elected to represent the 8th Congressional District in Congress last night, promising to use his mandate for pragmatic and effective government in Washington...
Weaving among the Capuano for Congress signs was Capuano himself, the race's frontrunner, shaking hands and slapping the backs of his supporters...
...Congress didn't provide much tax relief in the spending bill it passed last week, but it did a few small favors. Next year, for example, a million families that earn around $45,000 to $90,000 can take advantage of child and college-tuition credits without triggering the alternative minimum tax, the IRS's weapon against the superrich that has lately been striking more of the upper-middle class...