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University of Texas Democrats and Republicans are joining forces to fight a campus policy they say violates their constitutional rights.

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“The American people are facing a moment of economic crisis.

No matter how this began, we all have a responsibility to work through it and restore confidence in our economy.

The jobs, savings, and prosperity of the American people are at stake.

Doubts over the US $700bn financial bail-out package emerge from both Democrats and Republicans.

Political groups are wrangling over voter registrations and access to the polls. In Ohio, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over interpretation of a state law, which Democrats say allows voters to register and immediately cast an absentee ballot.

Republicans say that opens the door to fraud. The GOP is also closely watching and challenging voter registration drives by third-party groups.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama continued his swing through battleground states with a stop in Ohio.

The Democrats and Republicans are in a fierce battle for the votes of women. At one stop Wednesday, a 24-year-old single mother working for minimum wage introduced Obama in a college courtyard.

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AP - Democrats and Republicans queasy about a federal rescue of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are coa

When gas prices go up, Congress tries to do what it can to make them go back down. The Senate votes Tuesday on two measures.

Proposals from Democrats and Republicans would stop the federal government's practice of adding 70,000 barrels of oil a day to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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AP - Amid daily bipartisan sniping over high gas prices, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on at least one thing: With oil over $120 a barrel, President Bush ought to stop buying crude for the government emergency reserve.