Clinton set to return to Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- Aides say U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is ready to return to her Senate duties after licking her wounds from her failed Democratic presidential bid.

Clinton plans to return to Capitol Hill early in the coming week for votes on high-profile bills addressing a bailout of the housing crises, the president's surveillance powers and war funding, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Later in the week, she's set to make her first joint appearances with her former rival, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

"A week from today, you will have seen (Clinton) at the Capitol," Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines told the newspaper.

Meanwhile, the Post reported that new Clinton campaign figures show her presidential campaign finished $22.5 million in the red at the end of May, a $3 million increase from its April debt total. More than half of total, some $12.2 million, was owed to the candidate herself, the Post said.