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| FAA approved new jet despite safety concerns
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|  AP - Federal aviation officials approved a new type of small jet despite problems with the plane's design and production, overruling safety concerns voiced by government engineers, inspectors and test pilots, federal and congressional investigators said Wednesday.
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| Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:51:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Congress passes bill to protect disabled
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| Reuters - The often divided, election-year
U.S. Congress came together on Wednesday to give final approval
to a bill to protect millions of disabled Americans against
discrimination in the workplace. -- read full article |
| Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:43:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Top Republican: Palin boosts GOP Senate chances
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| AP - John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate has boosted Republican chances of holding key Senate seats and denying Democrats a filibuster-proof majority next year, the GOP's Senate campaign chief said Wednesday. -- read full article |
| Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:45:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate advances bill raising military pay
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| AP - Republicans failed Tuesday to block a major defense bill that included a pay raise for military personnel when one of their own, retiring Sen. John Warner, rallied senators to advance the legislation out of respect for U.S. troops at war. -- read full article |
| Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:47:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Senate reaches agreement on tax relief package
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| AP - Senate leaders said Tuesday that they had broken a months-long impasse over a tax break package that would bring billions of dollars in relief to individual and business taxpayers, developers of clean energy resources and people threatened by the alternative minimum tax. -- read full article |
| Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:51:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| Justice Department asked to examine Miss. ballot
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|  AP - A top congressional Democrat asked the Justice Department Tuesday to block Mississippi's Republican governor from putting a special election for Trent Lott's old Senate seat near the bottom of the November ballot.
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| Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:35:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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| House Democrat looking at market rescue plan
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| AP - The turmoil on Wall Street is prompting a key congressional Democrat to consider a broad federal market rescue that could include creating a new government entity to take over collapsed financial institutions and sell off their assets, as lawmakers did during the 1980s savings and loan crisis. -- read full article |
| Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:05:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News |
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