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Legislative Mischief

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AP

Party officials said Monday the next war spending bill most likely will fund military operations and not demand a timeline to bring troops home, although it will contain other restrictions on Bush's Iraq policies. (Oh yeah, right)

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thenewspaper.com

An Oklahoma legislator snuck a provision into a bill that has rendered the state's anti-speed trap law meaningless. Roan's new law deletes state highways from the definition of a speed trap and makes investigations into violations a discretio

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by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar)

The news I have for "netroots" types and Huffington Post liberals who see the Democratic Party as the major if not only hope for the antiwar movement can be summed up in two words: forget it. Majority leader Sen. Harry Reid recently let the

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American Chronicle

(Why am I not so shocked) In a meeting with the West Los Angeles Democratic Club on Saturday, May 5, Presidential candidate and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich revealed that the Democrats in Congress had made some secret concessioins

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The Hill

Anyone who knows much about real power in Congress knows that almost every member of the House and Senate lusts after a seat on the Appropriations Committee and hopes one day to achieve the status of Cardinal. The Cardinals, of course, are the folks

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Arab News

Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz is expected to decide in the next few days whether to open a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the light of his alleged role in the Investment Center scandal,

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Portland Press Herald(ME)

Mary Clemons had no intention of going to college after completing high school last year, and she was not pleased when her high school told her she had to complete a college application and submit it. (Maybe if all buy lottery tickets, we'd be r

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USA Today

An unwritten rule distributed 60% of the money to the party in charge and 40% to the minority party, former House Appropriations Committee staffer Jim Dyer says. [Wonder where I get my claim on the Washington Party deal?]

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Boston Globe

The CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implication of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to national defesne issue. (watch out for those bottom burps)

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Christian Science Monitor

Congress launched probes on allegations ranging from contracting abuses in Iraq and the alteration of scientific findings to the misuse of federal resources for partisan purposes. The firing of 8 US attorneys, others try to uncover any government was

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by John Walsh (Counterpunch)

It was basically a bill to make the Democrats look good without terminating the war. The Democrats could satisfy their real constituencies, AIPAC and other pro-war forces, while posturing for peace. Look good to the people, bash Bush and satisfy the

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Reuters

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $2.9 trillion budget that Democrats said imposes fiscal discipline on the federal government and that Republican opponents said will lead to huge tax increases. The nonbinding resolution would spend more m

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