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1 week 20 hours agoJanuary 29, 2006
14:51
Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush’s Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest what she called the California lawmaker’s support for the war in Iraq.
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14:01
Paul Wolfowitz is sending shock waves through the World Bank as he begins exerting his influence—starting with a crackdown on corruption—less than a year after arriving from the Pentagon with a reputation as a neoconservative ideologue.
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13:03
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says President Bush should have used his extensive authority to monitor suspected terrorists rather than approve the National Security Agency’s contested monitoring program.
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11:26
Republican lawmakers said Sunday that President Bush should publicly disclose White House contacts with Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist who has pleaded guilty to felony charges in an influence-peddling case.
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January 26, 2006
16:44
Die-hard Democratic critics of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito threatened to block a vote on his confirmation, but Republicans moved to try to ensure his approval by early next week.
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13:45
Suddenly, skyboxes are empty, "fact-finding" trips have been canceled and senators, congressmen and their aides now are insisting on paying for their own meals. NBC's Joel Seidman reports on one victim of the Abramoff scandal.
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10:45
President Bush defended anew his program of warrantless surveillance Thursday, saying “there’s no doubt in my mind it is legal.”
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January 25, 2006
22:58
The Bush administration is preparing a plan to expand civilian nuclear energy at home and abroad while taking spent fuel from foreign countries and reprocessing it, according to U.S. and foreign officials.
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13:54
President Ford was released from a hospital Wednesday, 12 days after he was admitted for treatment of pneumonia, according to his his chief of staff.
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11:55
The number of executions carried out by the U.S. federal government since 1988 is set to double in May, with three lethal injections scheduled in a single week.
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11:31
Senate Democrats charged Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito would be too deferential to presidential power, but gave no sign of any bid to block his nomination.
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11:26
Undaunted by speculation within his own party that he may have to quit Congress because of a corruption probe, Rep. Bob Ney announced Wednesday he’s running for re-election.
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January 24, 2006
21:49
President Bush will propose that Americans be allowed to take tax deductions on more of their out-of pocket medical expenses.
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19:36
Efforts to resolve House and Senate differences over a revised USA Patriot Act have reached a stalemate, a key committee chairman said Tuesday.
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18:46
Democrats promised Tuesday to introduce legislation to reverse concessions made to the health insurance industry in a budget bill, claiming GOP lawmakers changed the bill behind closed doors.
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14:21
President Bush managed to dodge a question about what he thought of the movie "Brokeback Mountain."
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12:20
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called on President Bush Tuesday to “come clean” in next week’s State of the Union speech and acknowledge “the costs of Republican corruption.”
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12:07
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the Bush administration’s domestic spying program Tuesday and suggested that some critics and news reports have misled Americans about the breadth of the National Security Agency’s surveillance.
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January 23, 2006
12:38
President Bush told abortion opponents Monday that they are pursuing “a noble cause” and predicted that their views would prevail eventually.
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11:50
President Bush on Monday went on the offensive against critics of his tactics in the war on terrorism, in part of a new administration effort to convince Americans that the National Security Agency’s communications spying program is necessary to fight terrorism.
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