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| House votes to provide protection to phone firms
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|  Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives
passed a bill on Friday that could shield phone companies from
billions of dollars in lawsuits for their participation in the
warrantless surveillance program begun by President George W.
Bush after the September 11 attacks.
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| Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:52:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| White House vows housing bill veto as Senate debates
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - The White House threatened to veto a
major housing rescue bill on Thursday just as the U.S. Senate
began debate on it, setting up a partisan fight over
legislation that backers say could save hundreds of thousands
of distressed homeowners from foreclosure. -- read full article |
| Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:07:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Highlights of war funding, new GI Bill
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| AP - Highlights of legislation to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, extend unemployment benefits, provide flood aid, boost GI Bill college benefits and provide flood aid to the Midwest: -- read full article |
| Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:49:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Obama rejects public financing against McCain
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|  Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama said on
Thursday he would reject public financing of his campaign
against Republican John McCain, reversing an earlier stance and
positioning himself to outspend McCain in the White House race.
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| Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:12:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate still deadlocked over $50B global AIDS bill
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| AP - At the White House on Thursday, President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people behind a triumph of his administration, a program to fight the global AIDS pandemic. Down the street on Capitol Hill, a few Republican senators continued to block what would be a major expansion of that program. -- read full article |
| Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:15:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Low approval rate for vets' chemical tests claims
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| AP - The Veterans Affairs Department has granted only 6 percent of health claims filed by veterans of secret Cold War chemical and germ warfare tests conducted by the Pentagon, according to figures obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. -- read full article |
| Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:24:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Nominee refuses to call killings genocide
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| AP - A U.S. diplomat nominated to be ambassador to Armenia came under intense questioning Thursday at her confirmation hearing over the U.S. policy not to label as genocide the World War I-era killings of huge numbers of Armenians. -- read full article |
| Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:11:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House passes Iraq war funds bill backed by Bush
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|  Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday approved enough new money to wage wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan for another year, while abandoning attempts to set
deadlines opposed by President George W. Bush for withdrawing
American combat troops.
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| Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:52:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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