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  • noun the upper house of the United States Congress

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  • A third of u.s. senate seats and all of the house seats are up for re-election in 2010, and a 10 percent unemployment rate in the New Year is no place to start -- Betty and t.j. HOLMES: Well, suspected militant attack in Pakistan turns out to be just an accident.

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  • "red invades blue" republican candidate, massachusetts special election, scott brown for u.s. senate, the people's seat in washington merrie says:

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