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E-mails reveal Abramoff requests, contacts
Jun 24 2006 11:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: $100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff's clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist's tax-exempt group.
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Bush pushes Congress on line-item veto
Jun 24 2006 3:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is pushing Congress to give him more authority to slice and dice the budget, an idea that's popular with conservatives who think the White House needs more muscle to restrict federal spending.
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U.S. envoy faces tough job in North Korea
Jun 24 2006 11:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Christopher Hill has faced down Balkan bad guy Slobodan Milosevic, barricaded himself against a mob storming the U.S. embassy in Macedonia and been summoned to North Korea by minions of Kim Jong Il. He also has survived the internecine warfare of official Washington.
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