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Senate Dems not backing Obama on wiretapping bill

Sen. Charles Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are bucking their party's presidential nominee Barack Obama by opposing a White House-backed warrantless wiretapping bill expected to be voted on today.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has not made up her mind on the controversial measure.

During the primaries, Clinton and Obama vowed to filibuster the overhaul of the 1978 Foreign...

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