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JANESVILLE, Wis. - Locked in a tough battle to hang onto their majority the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is pulling out all the stops: they spent nearly $1 million a day in September helping embattled incumbents and promising candidates in the midterm election, according to a summary of their September finances.

The DSCC, which is the campaign arm for Senate Democrats, raised $16 million in September and had $14 million in cash to burn beginning in October. They began September with more than $25 million in the bank but spent $27 million during the month.

"As the campaign enters its final weeks, Democrats are in strong position to hold the majority," committee chief Guy Cecil said in a statement.

They managed to just edge out their GOP equivalent, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). They said last week that they raised $15.5 million in September but did not say how much cash they had at the ready.

The fundraising for both committees was at record level last month, underscoring how close the fight for Senate control has become and how much donors are willing to write checks. If Republicans can defend their current seats and flip six Democratic seats in their favor, they will become the majority party in the Senate for the first time since 2006.

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The latest CBS News/New York Times Battleground Tracker estimates that Republicans will recapture the Senate with a slim margin of just 51 votes. But there are several Democrats hanging on to their seats, as well as some races where the Republican candidate is unexpectedly vulnerable.

Republicans may have a history of better voter turnout during midterm elections, but Democrats are the ones with the fundraising prowess these days. Since January 2013, the start of the current election cycle, Democrats have raised $127 million, compared to the Republicans' $98 million.

That $29 million advantage has given Senate Democrats the ability to hire staff in crucial races to knock on doors, call voters and help candidates campaign against Republicans. They also have some leeway to spend in races that were previously were considered off limits, such as the Republican-favored race in South Dakota, where Democrats are now spending $1 million on ads.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn't officially running for president but she's already attracting one of the regular features of the campaign trail: hecklers.

During an address to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics Sunday in San Diego, someone in the 3,000 person crowd began to goad her using a bullhorn.

"You know, there are some people who miss important developmental stages," she said in response, according to San Diego CBS affiliate KFMB.

This isn't Clinton's first experience with an unfriendly face in the crowd. In April, a woman was taken into custody after throwing a shoe at Clinton while she spoke to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting in Las Vegas.

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Clinton ducked as the shoe whizzed over hear head and was not hit, but didn't know what happened at first.

"Is that a bat?" she asked.

Then she joked, "Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?"

"My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial," she added. "Thank goodness she didn't play softball like I did."

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Hillary Clinton lent encouragement Sunday to pediatricians who are trying to promote parents reading to children, while weighing in on the debate over how much electronic screen time is healthy for infants and toddlers.

At the San Diego Convention Center, Clinton announced the distribution of an early literacy tool kit to help promote the verbal development of young children. The effort capitalizes on the trusted role of pediatricians in encouraging parents to read out loud, chat freely and even sing more with their young children from day one. The tool kits will be shared with 62,000 members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is holding a conference in San Diego this week.

As we have learned in the last 15 years, scientists can literally watch the synapses and the neurons firing when parents are reading and talking with children from their very earliest days, said Clinton, a former U.S. Secretary of State. The Academy of Pediatrics touched off a national debate about the use of electronic devices by young children in June when it recommended no TV or electronic screen time for children under the age of 2, and less than two hours for older children.

Clinton, the author of It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us and Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids Letters to Their First Pets, embraced those concerns during extended comments about the word gap among children whose vocabulary development falters in early life.

Now technology is of course changing how Americans read and in many ways it is opening up exciting new avenues for learning, Clinton said. We dont have enough research, but I think what we are learning is that the earliest years before a child is 2, televisions, iPads and screens are no substitute for actual parent-child interactions like talking, reading and singing.

The academy has joined forces on literacy development with the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, the California-based policy group on Climate change and childhood issues. Their initiative, dubbed Too Small to Fail, responds to a growing body of research highlighting language sensitivity starting in infancy.

Speaking for nearly 30 minutes on stage without a Teleprompter or notes, Clinton touched on health care policy milestones of the 1990s, including the defeat of her own health care reform initiative as First Lady.

Clinton brushed off a jarring interruption by a man with a megaphone and siren who was escorted out of the room.

You know there are some people who miss important developmental stages, she said to applause.

Among those in the audience, Clintons prospects as a possible presidential candidate in 2016 were on almost everyones mind.

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 photo, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Economic Club of Chicago in Chicago.(AP)

Hillary Clinton is cashing in with a $225,000 speech Monday night at the annual University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation dinner.

The former U.S. secretary of State first made headlines in June for the address when it was revealed UNLV is paying Clinton the steep rate to speak at the foundation's ritzy dinner at the Bellagio hotel.

UNLV students protested her visit, insisting the university instead spend the money on scholarships -- as tuition at the school will increase by 17 percent over the next four years.

You could give scholarships to thousands of students, benefit research on campus, give more students grants for research and studying, Daniel Waqar, student relations director for the UNLV Student Government, told Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston in June.

The speaking fee is expected to go toward the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. According the events website, The UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner is a prominent philanthropic event in Las Vegas, honoring individuals and organizations that advance UNLVs mission through their generous private support.

The speaking fee, though, is just one of many high-priced talks the Clintons routinely have given -- which clashed with Hillary Clinton's claim during her recent book tour that she and her husband were "dead broke" when they left the White House in 2001.

The base price for a ticket to the invitation-only dinner is $200. But some guests are paying as much as $20,000 for premium tickets that include a meet-and-greet and photo with Clinton before she speaks.

The event is reportedly sold out. If so, UNLV is expected to recover the cost of hosting Clinton.

Clinton also is expected to speak at a reception and dinner Monday night at the Aria hotel to raise money for 2016 re-election of Sen. Harry Reid. The exact details of that event havent been confirmed.

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