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Lawmakers want more money to gauge levee risks
Associated Press WriterHeavy flooding across the Midwest last month is leading to calls in Congress for more money to ensure the safety of levees around the country. "I believe these tragic floods have served as a wake-up call," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday at...Tags: Richard Durbin, National Government, Government, Natural Disasters, Inventories
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Congress rolled over on FISA
Nancy Soderberg’s advice to the Senate -- to simply forgive and forget the telephone companies' crimes against the American people and the Constitution -- is sickening. Soderberg argued that voting for the FISA warrantless wiretapping legislation...Tags: Parliament, Dick Cheney, Laws, Dianne Feinstein, The White House
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Bush lifts offshore drilling ban
The Swampby Katie Fretland In an effort to reduce pressure on oil prices and increase supply of domestic oil, President Bush today lifted a ban on offshore drilling. But that does not mean drilling will start immediately. An order by Congress......Tags: Laws, Petroleum Industry, Family, George Bush, National Government
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The elder-care crunch
Sun reporterAfter four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At one point,...Tags: Medical Specialization, Perry Hall, Medicine, Religious Festivals, Heart Disease
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Cheney accused of censoring
Associated PressVice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases,...Tags: Parliament, Ecosystems, Dick Cheney, The White House, National Government
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Senate Dems not backing Obama on wiretapping bill
glenn.thrush@newsday.comSen. Charles Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are bucking their party's presidential nominee Barack Obama by opposing a White House-backed warrantless wiretapping bill expected to be voted on today. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has not made...Tags: Upper House, Harry Reid, Parliament, Elections, Hillary Clinton
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Ex-EPA aide: Cheney staff censored warning on climate
WASHINGTON - Members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday. In a letter to Sen....Tags: Washington Post Company, Ecosystems, Dick Cheney, The White House, National Government
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Cheney's office zapped climate testimony from record, ex-EPA official says
The Associated PressVice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public-health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading U.S. health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse...Tags: Ecosystems, Parliament, Dick Cheney, The White House, National Government
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Letters to the editor
Gonzales should speak for no one Re "The Latino factor," Opinion, July 2 At last, our disgraced former attorney general demonstrates some support for an enlightened public policy perspective. Good for him. Too bad his expressed good intentions and his...Tags: History, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Government, Minority Groups, Sexual Assault
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Ex-EPA official: Cheney office tried to alter testimony
Chicago Tribune NewspapersBy Richard Simon WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's office worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided by a federal official in order to play down the threat of global warming and head off regulation of greenhouse gas emissions,...Tags: Dick Cheney, The White House, George Bush, National Government, Government
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