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SF Gate
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A months-long logjam over a new government surveillance bill may be coming to an end, with Republicans offering a compromise that would let people who think they were illegally spied on by the government have their day in court — albeit a secret one...
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CNN
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After months of stalemate, the Senate late Tuesday passed a huge government spending bill that includes billions of dollars requested by President Bush to continue the war in Iraq. The roughly $555 billion bill -- which passed 76-17 -- also preserves thou..
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BBC News
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The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation techniques such as simulated drowning.
The measure would require intelligence agencies to follow the rules adopted by the US Army, which forbid su..
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MSNBC
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Clash over detainee treatment
The Pentagon says moving money around is a bureaucratic nightmare that costs more in the long run. And if taken to the extreme, the military would eventually have to freeze contracts or lay off civilian workers to ensure t..
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CNN
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President Bush told Republican lawmakers on Tuesday he will not agree to legislation expanding children's health insurance if it includes a tobacco tax increase, a decision that virtually ensures a renewed veto struggle with the Democratic-controlled Cong..
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Market Watch
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The U.S. House passed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Thursday evening, despite a new veto threat and continued opposition from many Republican representatives.
House lawmakers voted 265-142 to approve the new plan, known..
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Yahoo News
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The US Senate Monday passed a mammoth 648 billion dollar defense policy bill, shorn of attempts by disappointed anti-war Democrats to dictate President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.
The bill included around 128 billion dollars for the wars in Afghani..
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Washington Post
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The House gave final and overwhelming approval yesterday to a landmark bill that would tighten ethics and lobbying rules for Congress, forcing lawmakers to more fully detail how their campaigns are funded and how they direct government spending.
The ne..
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Washington Post
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With the immigration bill dead, troop-withdrawal deadlines vetoed and other high-profile initiatives stalled, Democratic leaders closed six months in control of Congress mired in low approval ratings and plotting a legislative blitz on an issue they once..
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Washington Post
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The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise on one of the most difficult issues facing the country...
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USA Today
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The Senate's revived legislation to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants faces a critical test Thursday after surviving potentially fatal challenges.
Attempts from the right and left to alter key elements of the delicate bipartisan compromise faile..
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CNN
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Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
Democrats, who had made the stem cell legislation a top priority when they took..
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ABC News
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Connecticut's governor, a cancer survivor, vetoed a bill that would have allowed people with certain serious illnesses to use marijuana, saying it was fraught with problems and sent a mixed message to children.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Tuesday that she s..
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CNN
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The House passed a $37.4 billion budget bill for the Homeland Security Department on Friday, but minority Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a promised veto by President Bush.
No such fate awaits an even more generous bill funding veterans prog..
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USA Today
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One day after the Senate agreed to take up the issue again, President Bush on Friday called on Congress to pass an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws by year's end.
"Each day our nation fails to act, the problem only grows worse. I will contin..
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FOX News
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GOP negotiators of an immigration reform bill are crafting a large border security amendment with mandatory, immediate funding that they hope will assuage concerns of both Republicans and Democrats, FOX News has learned.
The senators are looking at a w..
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The Nation
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Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.
Habeas corpus was revoked by last year's Military Comm..
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USA Today
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A proposed immigration overhaul narrowly survived strong Senate challenges Wednesday, boosting its backers' hopes that the fiercely debated legislation might soon win passage and advance to the House.
Senators first turned back a Republican bid to redu..
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Los Angeles Times
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SOONER OR LATER, the political argument about expanding access to healthcare always returns to the same intractable question: Who pays the bill?
The healthcare proposal that Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama released Tuesday, though vague on..
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FOX News
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Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs can't stop coming back to haunt his wife, Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton.
A new book by Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein alleges the former president was on the verge of divorcing his wife, lea..
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