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• Product Safety Chief Sees Setbacks in Senate Bill

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Product, Safety, Chief, Sees, Setbacks, Senate, Bill, Mark Pryor, Nancy Nord, Daniel Inouye, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission

  The chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says a Senate bill that would more than double the agency's budget and expand its authority would be too difficult for the agency to implement and "put the American people at greater risk."

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• Inouye, Levin and Iraq

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:36 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Harry Reid, Diane Feinstein

  from him. It was coming from Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Carl Levin of Michigan. Last week we saw an incredible organized effort by California's DFA and the Courage Campaign to censure Diane Feinstein for her efforts on behalf of retroactive telecom immunity in the new FISA bill. As a result, she backed off (at least temporarily). Part of the

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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

  everybody feels it.Daniel McCall:  He was a happy-go-lucky kid. And the thing I remember about him is that he could run forever and run fast.Joseph Landry III: When he set his mind on something, he would do anything in his power to achieve it. He was not the fastest runner, but he would never quit the race.Brandon Thorsen:  He

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• Leahy Not About to Throw a Flag on the Patriots

  Published: February 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Leahy, Not, About, Throw, Flag, The, Patriots, Afc East Division, American Football Conference, Harry Reid, National Football League, New England Patriots, Nita Lowey, Arlen Specter, Patrick Leahy, Daniel Inouye, George W Bush, Alan Greenspan, Hillary Clinton, Roger

  Sen. Arlen Specter 's one-senator war against the New England Patriots has a big problem: The three-time Super Bowl-winning team has its own Senate patron in Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy .

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• Senators Agree on Product Safety Bill

  Published: February 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senators, Agree, Product, Safety, Bill, Mark Pryor, Rosario Palmieri, Daniel Inouye, Diana Degette, Ellen Bloom, Joan Claybrook, Lisa Ackerman, Rachel Weintraub, Ted Stevens, Consumer Federation Of America, Consumers Union Of U S Inc, National Association Of Manufactu

  Lawmakers reached an agreement yesterday on a Senate bill that clears the way for the first major overhaul of the nation's consumer product safety system in a generation.

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• Uneasy About Byrd Uncertainty

  Published: April 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Uneasy, About, Byrd, Uncertainty, Robert Byrd, Iraq, Daniel Inouye, The White House, Afghanistan, Capitol Hill, Edward M Kennedy, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Jim Nussle, John Warner, Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Leahy, Patty Murray, Strom Thurmond, U S Senate Committee On Appropria

  Heading into the most critical legislative battle of the spring, Senate Democrats are privately wondering who will lead their fight to pass a $108 billion spending bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that will also contain important provisions for stimulating the domestic economy.

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• Uneasy About Byrd Uncertainty

  Published: April 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Uneasy, About, Byrd, Uncertainty, Robert Byrd, Iraq, Daniel Inouye, The White House, Afghanistan, Capitol Hill, Edward M Kennedy, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Jim Nussle, John Warner, Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Leahy, Patty Murray, Strom Thurmond, U S Senate Committee On Appropria

  Heading into the most critical legislative battle of the spring, Senate Democrats are privately wondering who will lead their fight to pass a $108 billion spending bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that will also contain important provisions for stimulating the domestic economy.

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• With Other Nations Refusing Detainees' Return, 'We Are Stuck' With Guantanamo, Gates Says

  Published: May 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: With, Other, Nations, Refusing, Detainees, Return, Are, Stuck, Guantanamo, Gates, Says, Robert Gates, United States, Michael G Mullen, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, The Pentagon, Abdallah Salih Al Ajmi, U S Department Of Defense, Baghdad, Byron Dorgan, Daniel Inouye, Michael Mukase

  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who last year said he would look for ways to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, has told the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee that his inter-agency effort has been brought to a "standstill" by what he called "a serious not-in-my-back-yard problem."

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