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Republicans push tax bill through House
Dec 8 2006 11:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rejected by voters and limping off stage, the Republican-led House on Friday passed a sweeping bill reviving expired tax breaks and protecting doctors from a big cut in Medicare payments.
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Panel blasts Hastert in Foley scandal
Dec 8 2006 11:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican lawmakers and aides failed for a decade to protect male pages from sexual come-ons by former Rep. Mark Foley _ once described as a "ticking time bomb" _ but they broke no rules and should not be punished, the House ethics committee concluded Friday.
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McKinney introduces bill to impeach Bush
Dec 8 2006 11:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.
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House OKs U.S.-Indian nuclear fuel bill
Dec 8 2006 10:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House gave overwhelming approval Friday to legislation allowing U.S. shipments of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India, setting up consideration by the Senate _ the last step before the measure could be sent to President Bush to sign into law.
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Sen. Brownback may lift hold on nominee
Dec 8 2006 10:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, a potential presidential candidate, said Friday he would lift his hold on a federal judicial nominee if she agrees to step aside from any case dealing with same-sex unions.
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Sen. DeWine eulogizes service members
Dec 8 2006 9:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine used his last hours in the Senate to eulogize 79 service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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GOP senator says war may be 'criminal'
Dec 8 2006 5:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, a Republican who voted in favor of the Iraq war in 2002 and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."
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New energy leader unsure on oil tax cuts
Dec 8 2006 5:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi's plan to repeal tax breaks for oil companies in the first 100 hours of the new Congress could face roadblocks in the Senate.
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New Senate chair to probe EPA air policy
Dec 8 2006 5:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate's incoming environmental committee chairwoman on Friday criticized a new EPA policy that reduces the role of scientists in setting air pollution standards.
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Organized labor wants to change law
Dec 8 2006 5:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leaders of organized labor, claiming union support put Democrats in the majority, launched a campaign Friday to push Congress to pass legislation that would make it easier to form unions.
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Senate to hold closed joint caucus
Dec 8 2006 4:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first thing the new, Democratic-led Senate will do next year is meet in a closed "bipartisan caucus" to help set a more pleasant tone than the relentless backbiting of the Congress now heading home, party leaders said Friday.
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House OKs oil, gas drilling in Gulf area
Dec 8 2006 4:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House approved oil and gas drilling Friday in a vast area of the Gulf of Mexico south of Florida's Panhandle and agreed to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments to Gulf states to restore coastal wetlands and repair hurricane damage.
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New chair vows new focus for House panel
Dec 8 2006 3:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The incoming Democratic chairman of the House committee that writes environmental laws on Friday promised a new focus for the committee _ starting with a new name.
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Senate approves bill to revamp fisheries
Dec 8 2006 2:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress was poised to pass a bill Friday to revamp management of the nation's marine fisheries and strengthen protections against overfishing of dwindling stocks.
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Iraq report reads like rebuke to policy
Dec 8 2006 12:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bipartisan report urging a crash "diplomatic offensive" to stave off chaos in Iraq and seek solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict is a more nuanced version of a common rebuke to President Bush's foreign policy: You can't go it alone.
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U.S. troops may be able to leave Iraq
Dec 8 2006 11:19AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Significant U.S. combat troops could be pulled out of Iraq by early 2008 as long as the Iraqis meets specific goals toward establishing a unified government, a senior U.S. commander in Iraq said Friday.
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