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No American can deny that the dead and wounded victims of this month's shooting rampage at Fort Hood fell in service to their country.

On NBC 's "Meet the Press," David Gregory moderates a discussion about the Senate's $849 billion health care bill with Senators Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, Dianne Feinstein , Democrat of California, Kay Bailey Hutchison , Republican of Texas, and Joe Lieberman , an independent of Connecticut.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate blasted Democrats for obstructing up-or-down votes on President George W. Bush's nominees to federal appellate courts.

The air war begins this weekend in the fight for the Republican nomination for governor between the incumbent, Rick Perry, and Sen.

By JAY ROOT AUSTIN - Republican activist Cathie Adams has almost made a career out of stirring things up.

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Reps.

The trustees of Texas' public higher education endowment funds are recommending more than $3.3 million in performance bonuses for investment managers despite $2.6 billion in lost value over the past fiscal year.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, who's running for governor of Texas, is still planning to quit the U.S. Senate - but not yet.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, will begin airing television spots on Friday, a day after she launched a radio campaign in her effort to unseat Texas Gov.

Judge David Hamilton The Senate voted for cloture, or to begin debate, on President Obama's first judicial nominee, and 10 Republicans voted 'yea' on Judge David F. Hamilton, a former ACORN fundraiser who once made an injunction against saying Jesus' name in the Indiana Legislature.

In Washington, Senate Democrats say it's the last leg of the journey on health care reform.

Bus safety advocates and congressional leaders say they will continue to push long-stalled bus legislation even after the U.S. Transportation Department released plans this week to strengthen motor coach safety rules.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's decision not to resign her Senate seat, until after the March primaries, could throw a wrench in the GOP ballot.

As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September, a crowd of people enter the side entrance of the Jewish Community Center in North Dallas.

With budget problems mounting for many Texas school districts, the next governor is likely to inherit a funding system that experts say has become a legal and financial quagmire.

Gov. Rick Perry has been campaigning against Washington, and Washington is returning the favor - no endorsements here.

Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

Democrats on Tuesday crushed a Senate filibuster against a controversial appeals court nominee, demonstrating to Republicans they can't stop President Barack Obama from turning the federal judiciary to the left.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is stepping to the side of Republican U.S. Sen.

Canyon Clowdus thinks Americans "have less freedom and pay more taxes than ever." "We need more John Wayne and Jesus in Washington," the Marble Falls rancher and businessman declares.