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D.C. bluster, but no help for high cost of gas
In a summer of nationwide anguish over fuel costs, Congress' attack on soaring gasoline prices has been full of high-octane rhetoric and low-energy results.
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Congress: No annoying airplane cell phone calls
Cell phone calls on airplanes in flight are not only unsafe, they're obnoxious and they should be permanently banned, according to some members of Congress.
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Congress moves to monitor college costs
The House moved Thursday to make college costs more transparent, and possibly more affordable, in passing the first major overhaul of the federal higher education act in a decade.
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Stevens pleads not guilty
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied about accepting more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of gifts from a powerful oilfield contractor.
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Stevens due in court over corruption
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is due in federal court Thursday to answer charges that he lied about hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from an oil services contractor.
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Pentagon in firing line over GI electrocutions
Lawmakers on Wednesday pressed officials from the Pentagon and KBR Inc. to explain what has delayed the proper protection of U.S. forces in Iraq from deficient electrical work blamed for 16 deaths.
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Energy bill deadlocked over offshore oil
Congress appeared deadlocked Wednesday on responding to the nation's energy problems amid a bitterly partisan rift over whether to open long-restricted offshore waters to oil and gas drilling.
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Karl Rove in contempt of Congress?
A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to answer questions about the dismissals of several federal prosecutors.
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Dems pursue allegations against White House
Across Capitol Hill, Democratic-led committees weighed punishments for past and present Bush administration officials for a range of alleged misdeeds.
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Stevens indictment adds to GOP's woes
Ted Stevens's indictment yesterday could not have occurred at a more politically inopportune time for the senator from Alaska or for his fellow Republicans.
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Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens indicted
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
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Profile: Stevens a throwback to Senate
Ted Stevens is a throwback to the Senate he joined almost 40 years ago and then worked so effectively for his home state of Alaska.
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House apologizes for slavery, Jim Crow
The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.
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Justice Department indicts Sen. Ted Stevens
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
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Lawmakers to ban toxins in kids products
Congressional negotiators agreed Monday to a ban on a family of toxins found in children's products, handing a major victory to parents and health experts.
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In Senate showdown, GOP takes the dare
Under a Democratic dare, Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a bill that would aid victims of torture, disability and disease, insisting the legislation would add to the deficit.
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DOJ: Former aide broke law
A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the blame on top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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'Impeachment light' hearing on Capitol Hill
The Democratic-run House Judiciary Committee put on a hearing that it insisted was not about removing President Bush from office. Instead, they called it a probe into "executive power and its constitutional limitations."
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."
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House proposal to tap strategic oil reserves fails
The House of Representatives on Thursday failed to pass legislation intended to cool off gasoline prices by requiring the government to sell 70 million barrels of light sweet crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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