Senate

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In this March 11, 2014, photo Republican-backed Senate candidate Shane Osborn, right, and tea-party backed Ben Sasse, left, leave the stage after a debate in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Senate leaders and their staff discuss school funding legislation during the chamber's session, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. They are, left to right, Ryan Gilliland, Senate President Susan Wagle's chief of staff; Wagle, a Wichita Republican; Tim Graham, Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley's chief of staff, and Hensley, a Topeka Democrat. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Kansas Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, left, a Nickerson Republican, confers with Senate President Susan Wagle, right, a Wichita Republican, in a hallway at the back of the Senate chamber during its session, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Senate GOP leaders are pushing a school funding plan aimed at complying with a Kansas Supreme Court mandate to boost aid to poor school districts. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he expects the Senate to pass a jobless-benefits funding bill this week after Monday's agreement on a voice vote to take up the legislation, from which he barred amendments. "Hopefully, the Republicans in the House will have the soft hearts and strong minds to allow this to pass over there," the Nevada Democrat said afterward. (Associated Press photographs)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner says he won't bring a Senate bill that would fund federal unemployment-compensation benefits up for a vote in his chamber. He insists it include job-creation measures.

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Senate co-leader Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, talks to reporters after a legislative leaders budget meeting at the Capitol on Friday, March 28, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, listens as Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine, speaks against a resolution to suspend three Democrats who face charges in criminal cases on the floor of the Senate in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday, March 28, 2014. The resolution which passed 28-1 prevents Democratic Sens. Ron Calderon, Leland Yee and Rod Wright from exercising any power of their office until the pending criminal cases against them have been resolved.(AP Photo/Steve Yeater)

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Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, R-Rockville Centre, left, Senate co-leader Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, center, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, leave Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office at the Capitol after a budget meeting on Thursday, March 27, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)