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New commission to study WMDs announced
Associated Press WriterSoon after taking office, the next president will get some advice about how to prevent a nuclear attack on the U.S., researched and written by top experts on weapons of mass destruction. Over the next six months, a congressionally mandated commission...Tags: Tim Roemer, Defense, National Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Emergency Planning
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Democrats take another Republican seat
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown Anti-abortion, pro-gun Democrat Travis Childers has won today's special election in Mississippi's deeply conservative First Congressional District, the Associated Press is reporting. Following special election victories in Illinois...Tags: Elections, Nancy Pelosi, National Government, Dick Cheney, Executive Branch
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Senate votes to stop filling oil reserve
The SwampUndated government photo of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve's Big Hill site near Beaumont, Texas. (Source: Department of Energy/ via Bloomberg News) by Frank James How concerned are lawmakers during this election year about a voter backlash against...Tags: Elections, Heads of State, National Government, The White House, Upper House
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Blunt: Actually, we won, sort of
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown Congressional Republicans are agonizing over their third consecutive special election loss, Minority Whip Roy Blunt sees a silver lining to the victories this month of conservative Democrats Don Cazayoux and Travis Childers. "The...Tags: Rudy Giuliani, Elections, National Government, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama
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Farm bill full of pet causes backed by individual lawmakers
Associated Press WriterA good farm bill wouldn't be complete without a little pork. Individual lawmakers, mostly senators, slipped several dozen "earmarks," or pet causes, into the $290 billion bill that have at best tentative connections to the tilling of the land. There's...Tags: National Government, State Budgets, Parliament, Jeff Flake, Plum Creek Timber Company Incorporated
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Congress wants petroleum shipments stopped
The Associated PressThe Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted today to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is...Tags: Byron Dorgan, Heads of State, National Government, The White House, Energy Saving
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Congress divided on energy plan
Associated Press WriterAs millions of people approach the summer vacation season under the threat of $4-per-gallon gasoline, Congress is scrambling to respond. But don't wait for anything that will drive down prices at the pump. A Senate vote on a GOP plan is scheduled for...Tags: National Government, Energy KD, Heavy Engineering, State Budgets, Bill Clinton
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Take that, Big Oil!
Imagine this. You've built the better mousetrap. (Because lasers and pneumatic tubes are cool, let's imagine it uses them.) You've persevered through years of trial and error in your garage, enduring sleepless nights, the mockery of friends, the eye-...Tags: National Government, Hillary Clinton, Energy KD, State Budgets, Horatio Alger
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Monday's Talk Shows
The Early Show The winner of "Survivor: Micronesia." 7 a.m. KCBS 49305 Today Author Kimberly Dozier ("Breathing the Fire"); Christian Slater. 7 a.m. KNBC 385560 KTLA Morning News Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas; Chaka Khan; author Aubrey H. Fine ("...Tags: Jon Stewart, John Stamos, Shia LaBeouf, Oprah Winfrey, William Shatner
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Bush picks 3 for election commission
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush sent the Senate a new slate of Federal Election Commission nominees Tuesday, an attempt to break a Senate confirmation deadlock that was greeted coolly by the Democratic leader. Bush nominated two new...Tags: Elections, National Government, The White House, Upper House, Government
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