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Democrats: Bush Ties May Have Led to Iraq Oil Contract
Dave Michaels for The Dallas Morning News reports that "Democratic lawmakers moved Monday toward investigating Hunt Oil's exploration contract in Iraq, saying the company's ties to President Bush raised... ...
Republicans Head for the Exits
Janet Hook and Theo Milonopoulos report for The Los Angeles Times: "This is crunchtime for members of Congress who must decide whether to seek reelection next year or leave office, and so far Republicans... ...
Bush pushes Congress on ‘No Child’ law
Vineland Daily Journal 10/10/07 Preside nt Bush said Tuesday that he’s open to new ideas for changing the ‘No Child Left Behind’ education law but will not accept watered-down standards or rollbacks in... ...
Bush Seeks $200 Billion to Continue Iraq Occupation
Julian E. Barnes reported in the Los Angeles Times that George W. Bush "plans to ask lawmakers next week to approve another massive spending measure - totaling nearly $200 billion - to fund the war through... ...
Republicans pushed 'bogus' terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says
Republicans and the Bush administration used a 'bogus' terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government's... ...
Republicans Block Detainee Rights Bill
Reporting for The New York Times, David Stout writes "A move to give terrorism suspects the right to challenge their detentions in federal court fell short in the Senate today, even though it had majority... ...
Leahy Renews Call for White House Documents
Thomas Ferraro reports for Reuters that Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has publicly renewed his call for long-sought White House documents about the administration's domestic... ...
NSA Chief: 9/11 "Could Have Been Prevented"
Jason Ryan and Theresa Cook report for ABC News: "Six years after the deadliest attack on US soil, the head of US spy operations admitted to lawmakers that '9/11 should have and could have been prevented.'... ...
Congress expected to grill Petraeus on violence data
CNN 09/09/07 Congress is expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months. Gen. David Petraeus, the top... ...
Lawmakers urge delay in spy satellite plan
USA Today 09/06/07 Members of Congress and civil liberties groups demanded Thursday that the Homeland Security Department delay a new program that will let police and counterterrorism officers use powerful... ...