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MTV
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So much for being South Carolina's favorite son: Despite polling ahead of at least three of the candidates who've been stumping hard in South Carolina, Comedy Central faux conservative Stephen Colbert's bid to get on the ballot for the upcoming Democratic..
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The Hill
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Wednesday released an interview with GOP lawyer Dana Jill Simpson implicating former White House adviser Karl Rove in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D)..
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New York Times
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The Democratic chairman of a House committee complained Tuesday that the State Department was blocking his panel’s efforts to investigate the private security firm Blackwater USA and its operations in Iraq.
The department described the situation as a..
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Washington Post
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) last week sent Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales a letter listing 12 topics he expects Gonzales to clarify at Tuesday's hearing. Excerpts:
" When you last testified . . . you often respond..
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www.speaker.gov
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From the Oversight and Government Reform Committee:
Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information
Washington, D.C. — The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the Nation..
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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Habeas corpus was revoked by last year's Military Comm..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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The Senate Judiciary Committee's leaders today asked the lawyer for White House adviser Karl Rove to voluntarily turn over more e-mails as part of the investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, The Hill reports. The e-mails had been given to U..
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CNN
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The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that he expects the investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors will lead to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation.
"I have a sense when we finish our investigation,..
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Washington Post
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A World Bank committee investigating president Paul D. Wolfowitz has nearly completed a report that it plans to give the institution's governing board, concluding that he breached ethics rules when he engineered a pay raise for his girlfriend, three senio..
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Alter Net
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Attorney General Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was a case lesson in obfuscation, and not even Republican senators were buying it.
When can we put the "consensus" of the senior leadership of the Department of Justice, CSLDJ (pron..
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CBS News
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The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed new documents Tuesday from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as part of its investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors, with the panel chairman saying he had run out of patience.
"We have been patient..
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CNN
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Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff, has agreed to testify under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, his lawyer said in a letter to the committee chairman Friday.
"Mr. Sa..
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CBS News
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A Senate committee approved a $122 billion measure Thursday financing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but also defied President George W. Bush by calling on him to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by early next year.
The bill, approved by a voice vote,..
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CNN
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Valerie Plame Wilson was called to testify Friday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about her work at the CIA before her covert identity was revealed. Here is a transcript of her opening statement.
Good morning, Mr. Chairman..
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United States Senate
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Signaling a renewed emphasis on combating corruption at home and abroad, incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), introduced a package of bills Thursday targeting corrupt officials and private companies seeking to defraud Americ..
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CNET
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Slapping additional regulations on government and commercial "databanks" and rewriting patent laws are on the agenda for a key U.S. Senate committee in 2007, its new chairman said Wednesday...
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SF Gate
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In July 1987, then-Rep. Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim...
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Yahoo News
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The National Republican Congressional Committee agreed to stop placing automated telephone calls to New Hampshire residents on the federal do-not-call list, a state official said...
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MSNBC
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The Democratic Party is struggling to raise money for its convention in Denver on Aug. 25-28, with fund-raising by the host committee falling far short of the party’s goals and lagging behind the Republicans’ efforts for their convention in Minneapoli..
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MSNBC
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The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday introduced legislation that would bar network providers from discriminating against some Internet content.
Committee chairman John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, said the bill he and Califor..
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