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• Texas State Lawmaker Opposing Deadly Force Bill Shoots Would-Be Thief

  Published: July 10, 2007, 8:33 am

  Tags: Politics, Concealed Weapons, Gun Control Laws, Guns, Hypocrisy, Lawmakers, Liberals

  it that liberals and liberal lawmakers that support tighter gun control laws often carry concealed weapons themselves or have bodyguards that do? I’ve seen two stories recently of this kind of hypocrisy, but this one takes the cake. A state lawmaker [Democrat] who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly

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• Turkey Seeks Lawmakers' Blessing For Attack on Rebel Kurds in Iraq

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Turkey, Seeks, Lawmakers, Blessing, For, Attack, Rebel, Kurds, Iraq, Jamal Abdullah, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sean Mccormack, European Union, Kurdistan Workers Party, Turkish Justice Development Party, U S Department Of State, United States, Washington Dc

  SIRNAK, Turkey, Oct. 9 -- Turkey's ruling party decided Tuesday to seek parliamentary approval for an offensive against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, a move that could open a new front in the Iraq war and disrupt one of that nation's few relatively peaceful areas.

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• Lawmakers Criticize CIA Director's Review Order

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Criticize, Cia, Director S, Review, Order, Michael Hayden, John Helgerson, Central Intelligence Agency, Robert L Deitz, National Security Agency, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Company, Jeffrey H Smith, Julie Tate, Kit Bond, Paul Gimigliano, Silvestre Re

  A decision by the CIA director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, to order a special review of efforts by CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson to probe the agency's past interrogations and imprisonment of terrorism suspects evoked concern yesterday among congressional staff members and lawmakers.

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• Lawmakers Criticize CIA Director's Review Order

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Criticize, Cia, Director S, Review, Order, Michael Hayden, John Helgerson, Central Intelligence Agency, Robert L Deitz, National Security Agency, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Company, Jeffrey H Smith, Julie Tate, Kit Bond, Paul Gimigliano, Silvestre Re

  A decision by the CIA director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, to order a special review of efforts by CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson to probe the agency's past interrogations and imprisonment of terrorism suspects evoked concern yesterday among congressional staff members and lawmakers.

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• Lawmakers Worry Pentagon's Pay System Won't Fit the Bill

  Published: October 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Worry, Pentagon S, Pay, System, Won T, Fit, The, Bill, The Pentagon, The White House, Frank Wolf, Jim Moran, Tom Davis, Virginia, Stephen Barr, U S Department Of Defense, U S Office Of Personnel Management

  Employee concerns about the new performance-based pay system for Defense Department civilians have reached the ears of three House members from Virginia.

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• Lawmakers Worry Pentagon's Pay System Won't Fit the Bill

  Published: October 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Worry, Pentagon S, Pay, System, Won T, Fit, The, Bill, The Pentagon, The White House, Frank Wolf, Jim Moran, Tom Davis, Virginia, Stephen Barr, U S Department Of Defense, U S Office Of Personnel Management

  Employee concerns about the new performance-based pay system for Defense Department civilians have reached the ears of three House members from Virginia.

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• Lawmakers Seek Answers in 'Jena 6' Case

  Published: October 16, 2007, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Lawmakers, Seek, Answers, Jena, Case

  Under a barrage of questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee, a federal prosecutor said today that the hanging of nooses at a high school in Jena, La. constituted a hate crime, but that charges were not brought because the students allegedly responsible were juveniles.

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• Lawmakers Shudder at Tax Increase To Fix AMT

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Shudder, Tax, Increase, Fix, Amt, Charles Rangel, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Iowa, Brendan Daly, Chuck Grassley, Debbie Stabenow, George W Bush, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia Snowe, Ron Wyden, Trent Lott, Internal Revenue Service, U S Democratic P

  Almost a year after vowing to protect millions of middle-income families from a special tax meant for millionaires, Democratic leaders are still struggling to find ways to raise the billions of dollars needed to fix the problem.

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• Lawmakers Shudder at Tax Increase To Fix AMT

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Shudder, Tax, Increase, Fix, Amt, Charles Rangel, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Iowa, Brendan Daly, Chuck Grassley, Debbie Stabenow, George W Bush, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia Snowe, Ron Wyden, Trent Lott, Internal Revenue Service, U S Democratic P

  Almost a year after vowing to protect millions of middle-income families from a special tax meant for millionaires, Democratic leaders are still struggling to find ways to raise the billions of dollars needed to fix the problem.

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• Bush Urges Lawmakers to Pass Appropriations Bills

  Published: October 26, 2007, 4:37 pm

  Tags: Bush, Urges, Lawmakers, Pass, Appropriations, Bills

  President Bush today delivered a broadside against Congress for what he described as inaction on several fronts, urging lawmakers to "stop wasting time" and pass appropriations bills and other legislation acceptable to him.

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• James Benzoni Once Faced Murder Charges Now Lawyer Honored

  Published: October 27, 2007, 4:54 pm

  Tags: Iowa, David Baldus, Death Penalty, Dennis Fritz, Iowa, James Benzoni, John Eli, Lawmakers, Politics

  James Benzoni, a champion of immigrants and the poor, will be honored Oct. 27th for his fight against the death penalty. read more

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• Lawmakers Keep Aerial Tankers on Life Support

  Published: October 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Keep, Aerial, Tankers, Life, Support, Michael Wynne, U S House Armed Services Committee, Illinois, New Jersey, Lockheed Martin Corporation, H James Saxton, Mcguire Air Force Base, Ramstein Air Base, Scott Air Force Base, T Michael Moseley, Walter Pincus, Ger

  Once a week, at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, a crew chief on a tug tows one of a dozen or more aging KC-135E flying tankers a short distance just to keep the tires from going flat. Every 25 to 30 days, each of the planes is taxied to a special spot just to sit while its engines run so th...

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• Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Weary, Wary, Lawmakers, See, Compromise, Way, Forward, Iraq, U S Republican Party, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iowa, Michigan, Chuck Grassley, Doc Hastings, Elizabeth Dole, George Voinovich, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Jane Harman, Jim Manley, John Boehner, Max Baucus, Nancy

  For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...

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• Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Weary, Wary, Lawmakers, See, Compromise, Way, Forward, Iraq, U S Republican Party, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iowa, Michigan, Chuck Grassley, Doc Hastings, Elizabeth Dole, George Voinovich, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Jane Harman, Jim Manley, John Boehner, Max Baucus, Nancy

  For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...

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• This Is Getting To Be Common

  Published: October 31, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: Anti Gay Policies, Gay Lawmakers, Gay Republicans, Politics

  Once again, another Republican politician is being forced into resigning because, it turns out, he's gay, and had an affair with another man. Well, in this case a one night stand, but he's been outed, and is resigning.

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