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Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor as the Next Supreme Court Justice

The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor 68-31 yesterday to replace retired Justice David Souter as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the first Latina – and only the third woman – to sit on the nation's highest court.  Sotomayor brings more federal and overall judicial experience to the Court than any justice in the past several decades.

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> View pictures of Wednesday's rally for Sotomayor

> View pictures of yesterday's confirmation watch party

Pictured: Sonia Sotomayor

'Free Rider' Provision in Senate Health Care Bill Gives Employers Incentive to Discriminate

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Congress Losing Patience with Lending Industry over Slow Pace of Foreclosure Prevention

Rep. Barney Frank, D. Mass., chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, is taking a hard line with the lending industry for failing to take action to prevent more foreclosures. In a statement issued last week, Frank said his committee would not support the industry's legislative agenda until lenders do far more to modify troubled mortgage loans. 

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