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		<title>Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI-1st) Rants About Media Coverage…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patrick Joseph Kennedy II &lt;/strong&gt;(born July 14, 1967) is currently representing Rhode Island&amp;#8217;s 1st congressional district since 1995. The district includes all of Bristol County and Newport County, and parts of Providence County. On February 11, 2010, Kennedy announced he&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/7MCBqIE3Tgk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY-29th) Resigned Amidst Sexual Misconduct Allegations…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-950" title="Massa-with-Vets" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Massa-with-Vets.jpg" alt="" width="514" height="346" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Currently&lt;/strong&gt;: Massa is doing damage control in light of allegations of sexual misconduct with at least one member of his staff&amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031104907.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bio&lt;/strong&gt;: Congressman Eric Massa, a &lt;a class="zem_slink" title="United States Naval Academy" rel="homepage" href="http://www.usna.edu/"&gt;Naval Academy&lt;/a&gt; graduate (class of &amp;#8216;81), is a 24-year retired Navy Commander. While in&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/yBgmZMIvXZU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY-15th) Lost Ethics Fight &amp; Steps Down as Ways &amp; Means Chairman Temporarily</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Charles Bernard &amp;#8220;Charlie&amp;#8221; Rangel (born June 11, 1930) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing the Fifteenth Congressional District of New York, and is the most senior member of that state&amp;#8217;s congressional&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/cIG7A5layEQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>Governor David Paterson (D-NY) Ends Campaign Amidst Scandal Allegations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mbeharry</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-953" title="Paterson" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Paterson.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="334" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Alexander Paterson&lt;/strong&gt; (born May 20, 1954) is the 55th and current Governor of New York. He is the first governor of New York of African American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state.  When &lt;a href="http://congressratings.com/566/eliot-spitzer/" target="_blank"&gt;Spitzer&lt;/a&gt; resigned&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/Lq5sn2W1pE8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>LeMieux, George- (R – FL) Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-934" title="225px-Senator_George_LeMieux" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/225px-Senator_George_LeMieux.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="285" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George S. LeMieux&lt;/strong&gt; (born May 21, 1969) is currently the junior United States Senator from Florida. He was Chairman of the Florida-based law firm of Gunster Yoakley &amp;#38; Stewart, P.A. and served as Chief of Staff to Governor &lt;a title="Charlie Crist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Crist"&gt;Charlie Crist&lt;/a&gt;, was former Deputy &lt;a title="Florida Attorney General" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Attorney_General"&gt;Florida Attorney&amp;#8230;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/R9HWigwAIJw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>Evan Bayh – (D – IN) Senate – Not Running For Re-Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-940" title="Evan Bayh" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/225px-Evan_Bayh_official_portrait.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="283" /&gt;Birch Evans &amp;#8220;Evan&amp;#8221; Bayh III&lt;/strong&gt; (born December 26, 1955) is the junior U.S. Senator from &lt;a href="http://congressratings.com/category/indiana/" target="_blank"&gt;Indiana&lt;/a&gt; since 1999. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana. On February 15, 2010, Bayh announced he would not seek reelection to the Senate in&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/lShOg_j6594" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>John Murtha (D-PA-12th) Rep. Passes Away at Age 77</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-937" title="John Murtha" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/250px-John_Murtha_portrait_2008.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="313" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Patrick &amp;#8220;Jack&amp;#8221; Murtha, Jr.&lt;/strong&gt; (June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010) represented &lt;a title="Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%27s_12th_congressional_district"&gt;Pennsylvania&amp;#8217;s 12th congressional district&lt;/a&gt; from 1974 until his death in 2010.  A former Marine Corps officer, Murtha was the first &lt;a title="Vietnam War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War"&gt;Vietnam War&lt;/a&gt; veteran elected to the &lt;a href="http://congressratings.com/category/house-of-representatives/"&gt;U.S. House of Representatives&lt;/a&gt;.  Murtha has been best&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/1ohcjpQRYQs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>John Edwards: Getting Divorce &amp; Admits to Fathering Child…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://congressratings.com/472/edwards-john/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Edwards-waving.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="500" height="334" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="John Edwards 2008" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48025847@N00/2147766593/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a title="Attribution-ShareAlike License" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/plugins/photo-dropper/images/cc.png" border="0" alt="Creative Commons License" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.photodropper.com/photos/" target="_blank"&gt;photo&lt;/a&gt; credits: Jonathan Walczak &amp;#38; &lt;a title="John Edwards 2008" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48025847@N00/2209718722/" target="_blank"&gt;John Edwards 2008&lt;/a&gt; -&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Currently&lt;/strong&gt;: Edwards and his wife &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2010/01/28/BL2010012801506.html://" target="_blank"&gt;have split&lt;/a&gt;, this comes a week after John said, &amp;#8220;I am Quinn’s father.  I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. &amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/cLuXKzZRy5A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer: Thinks We Should Starve the Poor…</title>
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		<comments>http://congressratings.com/929/andre-bauer-south-carolina-lt-governor-thinks-starve-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-931" title="Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Andre Bauer" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Bauer-and-supporters.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Andre Bauer" width="500" height="307" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Currently&lt;/strong&gt;: Bauer is in the hot seat for yet another &lt;a href="http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/846572.html" target="_blank"&gt;fumble&lt;/a&gt;, at a town hall meeting on Thursday he alluded to starving the poor by saying&amp;#8230; &lt;em&gt;&amp;#8220;My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small&amp;#8230;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/LBCFYv600xo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>Scott Brown (R-MA) Takes Ted Kennedy’s Senate Seat</title>
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		<comments>http://congressratings.com/920/scott-brown-rma-takes-ted-kennedys-senate-seat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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		<description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-923" title="Scott-Brown-with-People" src="http://congressratings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Scott-Brown-with-People.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /&gt;Currently&lt;/strong&gt;: Brown defeated the Democrat Coakley with 1,168,107 votes (52%) versus her 1,058,682 votes (47%).  The independent in the race, Joseph Kennedy, received only 22,237 votes.  Republicans have not won a Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972.  Read more about the upset victory&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RateYourPoliticalLeaders/~4/Kz94o1Jbsnk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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