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• Costa Ricans Vote on Trade Pact

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Costa, Ricans, Vote, Trade, Pact, Oscar Arias, Costa Rica, Dr Cafta, The White House, Alfredo Volio, Bernie Sanders, George W Bush, United States, The Associated Press, Byron Dorgan, Dana Perino, Eugenio Trejos Benavides, Kevin Casas, Sherrod Brown, Susan Schwab, Central

  MEXICO CITY, Oct. 7 -- Costa Rica appeared headed late Sunday toward approval of a trade pact with the United States after a count of 88.7 percent of polling stations showed 51.6 percent of voters in favor of the trade deal. The balloting follows a contentious campaign marked by a scandal that...

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• Happy Thanksgiving

  Published: November 22, 2007, 11:37 am

  Tags: Thanksgiving, Jim Webb, Byron Dorgan, Jack Reed, James Holsinger

  to Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Byron Dorgan, and Sen. Jack Reed. Why? Hoping to preempt President Bush from making controversial recess appointments, Senate Democrats decided on Tuesday that they would stay in session over the Thanksgiving break. The move ensures that the President cannot install several disputed executive branch officials in

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• Wal-Mart Extends Its Influence to Washington

  Published: November 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wal Mart, Extends, Its, Influence, Washington, Wal Mart Stores Inc, S Robson Walton, Bentonville, Asa Hutchinson, Jib Ellison, Conservation International Foundation, Arkansas, Byron Dorgan, Erik Winborn, Hillary Clinton, Peter A Seligmann, Wal Mart Watch, Al Gore, Dale

  When Conservation International wanted to educate the world about Brazil's indigenous Kayapo Indians, whose Amazon home is threatened by deforestation, it brought an unlikely advocate to Washington: S. Robson Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart Stores.

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• Wal-Mart Reaches Out in Self-Defense

  Published: November 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wal Mart, Reaches, Out, Self Defense, Wal Mart Stores Inc, S Robson Walton, Bentonville, Asa Hutchinson, Jib Ellison, Conservation International Foundation, Byron Dorgan, Erik Winborn, Hillary Clinton, Peter A Seligmann, Wal Mart Watch, Arkansas, Al Gore, Leslie Dach

  When Conservation International wanted to educate the world about Brazil's indigenous Kayapo Indians, whose Amazon home is threatened by deforestation, it brought an unlikely advocate to Washington: S. Robson Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart Stores.

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• Wal-Mart Extends Its Influence to Washington

  Published: November 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wal Mart, Extends, Its, Influence, Washington, Wal Mart Stores Inc, S Robson Walton, Bentonville, Asa Hutchinson, Jib Ellison, Conservation International Foundation, Arkansas, Byron Dorgan, Erik Winborn, Hillary Clinton, Peter A Seligmann, Wal Mart Watch, Al Gore, Dale

  When Conservation International wanted to educate the world about Brazil's indigenous Kayapo Indians, whose Amazon home is threatened by deforestation, it brought an unlikely advocate to Washington: S. Robson Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart Stores.

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• Wal-Mart Extends Its Influence to Washington

  Published: November 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wal Mart, Extends, Its, Influence, Washington, Wal Mart Stores Inc, S Robson Walton, Bentonville, Asa Hutchinson, Jib Ellison, Conservation International Foundation, Arkansas, Byron Dorgan, Erik Winborn, Hillary Clinton, Peter A Seligmann, Wal Mart Watch, Al Gore, Dale

  When Conservation International wanted to educate the world about Brazil's indigenous Kayapo Indians, whose Amazon home is threatened by deforestation, it brought an unlikely advocate to Washington: S. Robson Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart Stores.

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• The Democrats Who Support George Bush's War

  Published: December 19, 2007, 8:02 pm

  Tags: Daniel Akaka, Max Baucus, Evan Bayh, Thomas Carper, Bob Casey, Kent Conrad, Byron Dorgan, Daniel Inouye, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Carl Levin, Blanche Lincoln, Claire Mccaskill, Barbara Mikulski, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, John Rockefeller, Ken Salazar, Jon Test

  Yesterday, twenty-one Democratic senators' joined their Republican brethren and voted to hand George Bush another blank check for Iraq.  Why?  Because if you ignore the fact that every benchmark laid out by Bush has failed, we're winning.  And with only forty or so soldiers dying in Iraq every month, what better way to support the

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• Will Mergers Fly?

  Published: January 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Will, Mergers, Fly, Gerald Grinstein, Capitol Hill, Delta Air Lines Inc, Us Airways Group Inc, Atlanta, Johnny Isakson, Mary E Peters, Alaska, Mississippi, Northwest Airlines Corporation, Ual Corporation, Byron Dorgan, Chicago, Jerry Costello, John Mica, Minneapolis, Ted St

  Even before any of the nation's major airlines make formal overtures that could lead to mergers, lawmakers from both parties are voicing concerns about the potential pitfalls of consolidation.

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• Shared Oil Goal Brought An Energy Compromise

  Published: January 28, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Shared, Oil, Goal, Brought, Energy, Compromise, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, The White House, Alaska, North Dakota, Bill Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Dingell, Paul D Bledsoe, Philip R Sharp, Ted Stevens, National Commission On Energy Policy, Resources For The

  When President Bush mentioned the words "climate change" for the first time in a State of the Union address last year, it signaled that the climate had indeed changed for several issues that were coalescing to force a White House and a Congress of different parties to work together.

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• Shared Oil Goal Brought An Energy Compromise

  Published: January 28, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Shared, Oil, Goal, Brought, Energy, Compromise, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, The White House, Alaska, North Dakota, Bill Clinton, Byron Dorgan, John Dingell, Paul D Bledsoe, Philip R Sharp, Ted Stevens, National Commission On Energy Policy, Resources For The

  When President Bush mentioned the words "climate change" for the first time in a State of the Union address last year, it signaled that the climate had indeed changed for several issues that were coalescing to force a White House and a Congress of different parties to work together.

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• Senate's Stimulus Measure Blocked

  Published: February 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate S, Stimulus, Measure, Blocked, Harry Reid, Aarp, U S Senate Committee On Finance, George W Bush, John Mccain, Arizona, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, General Motors Corporation, Barack Obama, Byron Dorgan, Hillary Clinton, John Rother, John Sununu, Juliet Eilperi

  A $158 billion economic stimulus plan drafted by Senate Democrats that included relief for low-income seniors, disabled veterans and the unemployed was blocked by a Republican filibuster last night when the Senate fell a single vote short of the 60 needed to consider the measure.

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• Safety of Drug Imports Questioned

  Published: February 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Safety, Drug, Imports, Questioned, Chuck Grassley, Food And Drug Administration, China, India, United States, Barry Piatt, Byron Dorgan, Europe, Olympia Snowe, Stephen R Mason, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, U S Government Accountability Office

  With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.

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• Safety of Drug Imports Questioned

  Published: February 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Safety, Drug, Imports, Questioned, Chuck Grassley, Food And Drug Administration, China, India, United States, Barry Piatt, Byron Dorgan, Europe, Olympia Snowe, Stephen R Mason, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, U S Government Accountability Office

  With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.

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• Senate's Stimulus Measure Blocked

  Published: February 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate S, Stimulus, Measure, Blocked, Harry Reid, Aarp, U S Senate Committee On Finance, George W Bush, John Mccain, Arizona, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, General Motors Corporation, Barack Obama, Byron Dorgan, Hillary Clinton, John Rother, John Sununu, Juliet Eilperi

  A $158 billion economic stimulus plan drafted by Senate Democrats that included relief for low-income seniors, disabled veterans and the unemployed was blocked by a Republican filibuster last night when the Senate fell a single vote short of the 60 needed to consider the measure.

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• Safety of Drug Imports Questioned

  Published: February 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Safety, Drug, Imports, Questioned, Chuck Grassley, Food And Drug Administration, China, India, United States, Barry Piatt, Byron Dorgan, Europe, Olympia Snowe, Stephen R Mason, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, U S Government Accountability Office

  With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.

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