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Legislative Mischief

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Crooks & Liars (video)

Chris Dodd Does It. Reid pulls Telecom Immunity bill off the table. His outspoken opposition to retroactive immunity and the Intelligence Committee’s FISA bill made it impossible to move forward now…

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UPI

A U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee vote on contempt resolutions was postponed Thursday after objections by the committee's ranking Republican member. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., objected to the language in the contempt resolutions against former

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The Hill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent $16,000 [of the taxpayers money] on flowers since taking office, one reason why she spent 63 percent more in her high-profile inaugural year than her low-key predecessor did last year.

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The Agitator

Another broadly-written bill would expand asset forfeiture laws to include copyright violations. Scary passage summarized by CNET: "Any computer or network hardware used to 'facilitate' a copyright crime could be seized by the Justic

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NY Times

Federal lawmakers are considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and a la carte cafeteria lines. Whether the measure, a

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USA Today

"Times have changed. That's the bottom line," said state Sen. Jennifer Veiga, who tried and failed to get the law changed in 2005. "There's no reason the government should dictate to a business that they can't open (on) a c

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AP

[let the caving begin] President Bush pressed Democrats to approve money to fund the Iraq war "without strings and without delay" before leaving for Christmas, something congressional leaders have already indicated they will not do.

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Reuters

Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States, and more babies are born with the AIDS virus in Washington than in other U.S. cities. People living in Washington are not getting tested for HIV and show up with advanced infections

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AP

City officials unanimously passed a measure making online harassment a crime, days after learning that a 13-year-old girl killed herself last year after receiving cruel messages on the Internet. Made Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by u

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AP

House Democrats threatened to hold President Bush's key confidants in contempt of Congress unless they comply with subpoenas for information on the Justice Department's purge of federal prosecutors last winter. The White House shrugged off th

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Mondoreb

We hear about the evil of "Big Oil". But one industry has a much higher profit margin than Big Oil: Big Sugar. U.S. consumers pay much higher prices for sugar--and every food item that takes processed sugar--than they would have to if Big S

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Congressional Quarterly

The House is expected to pass a bill Tuesday that would establish a commission to study the roots of homegrown terrorism. Homeland Security will survey the methodologies implemented by foreign nations to prevent domestic terrorism and

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National Expositor

This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution and defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-te

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