Conway is best known nationally for losing to GOP Senator Rand Paul in 2010 for the Kentucky Senate seat vacated by Republican Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning.

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New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Republican, pointed out last week at a Senate town-hall hearing in Philadelphia that the Big Apple's economy would collapse without the half-million or so undocumented people among the city's 3m immigrants.

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MS. HALL: Patty was a great leader and took a very early start in the Senate, and obviously Congressman McDermott as well.

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