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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made his picks Tuesday for the Congressional "super committee" that will face the unenviable task of finding trillions to slice from the federal budget.

The Senate will forgo its scheduled recess for the week of July 4 to work on legislation to raise the debt ceiling and cut the deficit, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a lawsuit against state senate majority leader Pedro Espada, Jr., accusing him, his family, and political aides of diverting more than $14 million from a network of healthcare charities he established....

Bipartisan negotiations in the Senate over how to generate new jobs have fallen apart. So Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid now intends to bring up a scaled-back bill offering businesses tax incentives for hiring new employees.

John Dimsdale reports.

Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens may have postponed his plans to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas, but he's come closer to accomplishing another goal: Pickens visited the nation's capitol last week to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) introduce a bipartisan bill designed to bring natural gas vehicles to the mainstream American market.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid promise to try to get help for automakers after Thanksgiving.

But the automakers have to make a convincing argument for why they need it. Alisa Roth reports.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promise to try to get help for automakers after Thanksgiving.

But the automakers have to make a convincing argument for why they need it. Alisa Roth reports.