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In 2006, monitors for the Dec. 15 Iraq parliamentary elections validated the vote despite reports of irregularities.

In 2007, former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, the only member of Congress to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

In 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush said that although the economy was growing, the rate of growth has slowed and there's a risk of a downturn. He called it a challenging period for our economy.

In 2009, Iranian intelligence officials said their forces had dismantled a U.S.-backed spy network involving several nations aimed at toppling the country's Islamic regime.

In 2010, Republican Scott Brown, a little known former state senator, scored a major political upset by winning a special Massachusetts election over a heavily favored Democrat to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Democratic legend Ted Kennedy.

 

Also in 2010, U.S. soldiers arrived by helicopter in Port-au-Prince to provide security and humanitarian aid in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

In 2011, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to repeal healthcare reform legislation enacted during the last Congress. The Senate, however, blocked the proposal.

In 2012, a major online protest against anti-Web piracy measures caused House and Senate lawmakers to pull back two proposals for further study. Several national websites suspended service for 24 hours to show opposition to measures some critics saw as potential censorship.


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