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• Disaster Farm Fund Approved

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Disaster, Farm, Fund, Approved, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Tom Harkin, Chuck Grassley, R Bruce Josten, Environmental Working Group, Internal Revenue Service, U S Chamber Of Commerce, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Washington Dc

  Tapping savings resulting from tighter tax rules on business, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved the creation of a $5 billion fund that would compensate farmers hit by weather-related losses over the next five years.

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• Disaster Farm Fund Approved

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Disaster, Farm, Fund, Approved, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Tom Harkin, Chuck Grassley, R Bruce Josten, Environmental Working Group, Internal Revenue Service, U S Chamber Of Commerce, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Washington Dc

  Tapping savings resulting from tighter tax rules on business, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved the creation of a $5 billion fund that would compensate farmers hit by weather-related losses over the next five years.

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• House Passes Bill to Aid Strapped Homeowners

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Passes, Bill, Aid, Strapped, Homeowners, Brian Gardner, Charles Rangel, George W Bush, The White House, Mortgage Bankers Association, U S House Committee On Ways Means, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, New York

  Financial relief for homeowners facing foreclosure or in bankruptcy advanced yesterday as the House approved legislation to help financially strapped homeowners.

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• Bush Declares His Openness To Revising Education Law

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Declares, His, Openness, Revising, Education, Law, George W Bush, Edward M Kennedy, Marc Morial, The White House, Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference On Civil Rights, National Urban League, U S Senate Committee On Health Education Labor Pensions

  Under pressure from the right and the left, President Bush said yesterday that he is open to reformulating his signature No Child Left Behind education law but stressed that he remains unwilling to surrender on its core elements of testing and accountability.

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• Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Bush, Agree, Terms, Spying, Bill, George W Bush, United States, Al Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Osama Bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, The White House, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Cable News Network Lp Lllp

  Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have...

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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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• Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Bush, Agree, Terms, Spying, Bill, George W Bush, United States, Al Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Osama Bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, The White House, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Cable News Network Lp Lllp

  Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have...

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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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• Next Stop: Nirvana

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Next, Stop, Nirvana, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, U S Department Of Justice, Dalai Lama, George W Bush, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Arlen Specter, Ben Cardin, Capitol Hill, Herb Kohl, Jeff Sessions, John Cornyn, Joseph Lieb

  The Senate Judiciary Committee was meeting yesterday to hear from attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey, but Chairman Pat Leahy's thoughts kept drifting to the mountains of Tibet.

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• Senate Panel Approves New Surveillance Bill

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Approves, New, Surveillance, Bill, Kit Bond, United States, At Amp T Inc, Christopher Dodd, Dan Eggen, Patrick Leahy, Ron Wyden, Suzanne E Spaulding, Wayne Watts, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Republican Party, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary

  The Senate intelligence committee yesterday produced a new bipartisan bill governing foreign intelligence surveillance conducted inside the United States, but objections by several Democratic lawmakers to some of its provisions raised questions about how quickly it might gain passage.

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• A Different Mukasey Emerges at Hearing

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Different, Mukasey, Emerges, Hearing, Michael Mukasey, United States, George W Bush, Patrick Leahy, Alberto Gonzales, The White House, U S Department Of Justice, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Jennifer Daskal, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Madonna Lebling, Russ Fei

  President Bush's choice for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, embraced some of the administration's most controversial legal positions yesterday, suggesting that Bush could ignore surveillance statutes in wartime and avoiding a declaration that simulated drowning constitutes torture under U.S....

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• Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senators, Say, White, House, Cut, Deal, Panel, Fisa, Russ Feingold, The White House, National Security Agency, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Arlen Specter, Bill Nelson, Tony Fratto, U S Department Of Justice, Dana Perino, Kit Bond, Orrin Hatch, Patrick Leahy, U S

  Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits.

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• Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senators, Say, White, House, Cut, Deal, Panel, Fisa, Russ Feingold, The White House, National Security Agency, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Arlen Specter, Bill Nelson, Tony Fratto, U S Department Of Justice, Dana Perino, Kit Bond, Orrin Hatch, Patrick Leahy, U S

  Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits.

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• Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senators, Say, White, House, Cut, Deal, Panel, Fisa, Russ Feingold, The White House, National Security Agency, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Arlen Specter, Bill Nelson, Tony Fratto, U S Department Of Justice, Dana Perino, Kit Bond, Orrin Hatch, Patrick Leahy, U S

  Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits.

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• Torture Stance Raises Doubts on Mukasey

  Published: October 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Torture, Stance, Raises, Doubts, Mukasey, Michael Mukasey, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Joseph Biden, The White House, Tony Fratto, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Bradford Berenson, Brian

  A growing number of Senate Democrats who had previously praised attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey are now focusing on his refusal to answer a question about torture as a pivotal issue for his confirmation.

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