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Pelosi, Hoyer call disruption of town hall meetings 'un-American'
Tribune Washington BureauHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, insisting at the start of a long and politically heated summer congressional recess that health care reform can be achieved this fall, today are calling the disruption of town hall meetings by...Tags: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Insurance, Health Insurance, Maryland
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Democrats tighten U.S. Senate grip
Chicago TribuneThe same Democratic wave that made history yesterday by electing Barack Obama to the presidency drowned Republicans in the House and Senate and seemed poised to give Democrats commanding power in Congress. Voters appeared to be looking for someone to...Tags: Executive Branch, Republican Party, Tom Udall, Saxby Chambliss, Mary L. Landrieu
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A president under siege throws down the gauntlet
Sun reporterWASHINGTON // At a crucial moment for his leadership, President Bush has picked a fight he was trying to avoid. Last month, Bush was deemed too weak politically to risk a pitched battle with Democrats as he fills the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day...Tags: George Allen, Abortion, Interior Policy, Executive Branch, Republican Party
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Tags: Republican Party, Nancy Pelosi, Benedict XVI, Trent Lott, Grant Park
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Senators committed to trial
Sun ReporterKey Senate Republicans rejected yesterday President Clinton's plea that they join him in negotiating a "reasonable" and "proportionate" response to House impeachment charges that would allow him to avoid a trial in the Senate. But a consensus appeared to...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Heads of State, Arlen Specter, Prisons, Meet the Press (tv program)
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Solemn vote ends 'year of agony'
Sun ReporterSuspenseful it was not. And yet, when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called for the verdict in President Clinton's impeachment trial, he suddenly placed the weight of history on 100 sets of shoulders in the hushed Senate chamber. "Senators, how say...Tags: Arlen Specter, Republican Party, Maryland, Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott
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Videotapes apparently sway no one
Sun ReportersHouse Republican prosecutors unleashed their strongest potential weapon against President Clinton yesterday -- Monica Lewinsky, on videotape -- but made no perceptible change in the seemingly inevitable outcome of his impeachment trial. After a day of...Tags: Television, Republican Party, White House, Witnesses, Mass Media
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Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made the promise after...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Republican Party, FBI, Edward Snowden, Jarmes R. Clapper
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Insight: In Washington, lawmakers' routines shaped by fundraising
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - For lawmakers in Washington, the daily chase for money can begin with a breakfast fundraiser in the side room of a Washington restaurant. At noon, there might be a $500-per-plate lunch with lobbyists in a Capitol Hill town house....Tags: John Boehner, John Boozman, Republican Party, Financial and Business Services, Dennis Cardoza
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Immigration bill clears early test vote; Obama calls for action
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to begin consideration of a White House-backed bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, burying a procedural roadblock that opponents regularly use to delay or kill legislation....Tags: ABC (tv network), John Boehner, Patrick Leahy, CNBC (tv network), Christopher Van Hollen Jr.
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Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship...
Tags: ABC (tv network), National Security, John Boehner, Orrin Hatch, White House
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