Congress

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Congress Wednesday examined a proposed $3.1 billion merger that would create the world's largest carrier as critics of the deal warned it could drive up the price of air travel. ...

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Capitol Hill is taking aim at what some see as rampant speculating. But the U.S. can't control a complex, sprawling global oil market ...

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The approval rating of the U.S. Congress dropped to near-record levels and is lower than U.S. President George Bush's mark, a Gallup poll indicates. Channel: Politics Tags: Congress democrats pelosi reid failure ...

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Actor Dennis Quaid on Wednesday detailed for Congress the accidental drug overdose that nearly killed his newborn twins last year and urged... ...

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor testifies Wednesday before the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on Aging about her husband's struggle with Alzheimer's. It is the first time O'Connor has spoken publicly and at length about the disease. She urges Congress to speed research on finding a cure. Her husband's diagnosis was the main reason she stepped down from the court in 2005. She says he is "not in very good shape." ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 3 hours ago
Unwilling to adopt a rational national energy policy that would increase domestic supplies of energy and place downward pressure on gasoline prices, Congress is passing its time with unhelpful symbolic gestures. ...

Source: www.MiamiHerald.com --- 2 hours ago
If Floridians have learned anything at all about windstorm insurance, it is that the path to constructive change is slow and painful. That has certainly been the case at the state level, where legislators resisted consumer-friendly improvements for years, until the argument for reform became too strong to resist. Apparently, much the same is taking place at the national level. ...

Source: www.jsonline.com --- 2 hours ago
Americans are thoroughly disgusted with the performance of our government, if you believe the results of a Gallup... ...

Source: weblogs.sun-sentinel.com --- 2 hours ago
The members of Congress from Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties sent a letter today to FBI Director Robert Mueller asking the agency to investigate a recent string of anti-Semitic incidents in South Florida. The effort, organized by U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, was joined by U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston; Tim Mahoney, D-Venus; Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Miami; Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami; Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach; Kendrick Meek, D-Miami, and Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar. A press release from Klein's office reports that the delegation is “greatly concerned about the temporal pattern of these events." The letter asks the FBI Director to “look into these incidents as a potential trend and report to us about ways that you are working with community leaders to find the perpetrators and prevent future incidents.” Read the letter here: Download file See background here . ...

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Washington D.C.' - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the PRO-Freedom Act of 2008 by a vote of 408-11 yesterday. ...

Source: www.thebostonchannel.com --- 36 minutes ago
Congress sends President George W. Bush legislation directing him to temporarily halt oil shipments into the government's emergency reserve. ...

Source: www.healthcentral.com --- 3 hours ago
U.S. Democratic lawmakers seeking to bolster Food and Drug Administration oversight of imported products took aim at medical devices and cosmetics on Wednesday, saying the agency lacks the money and power to properly regulate them. ...

Source: www.cato.org --- 2 hours ago
Suspending fill orders might well reduce oil prices by $10-30 a barrel –- all other things being equal. That price reduction would certainly be noticed at the pump. In a... ...

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HYDERABAD : The Telangana Rastra Samiti is ready to withdraw from the ongoing bypolls if the Congress announces its commitment to create separate Telangana state. ...

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Direct to announcement: What our president said to the nation, what the nation said to the universe, and a cornucopia of musical milestones highlight the major themes of the 2007 National Recording Registry. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named 25 additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part of [...] ...

Source: www.dailyreportonline.com --- 3 hours ago
The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was known for his love of Gilbert and Sullivan. Their operetta “Iolanthe” inspired Rehnquist to add gold stripes to the arms of his black robe. It turns out his passion dated to when he clerked for the late Justice Robert Jackson 55 y.... ...

Source: www.indiaenews.com --- 4 hours ago
In the second phase of polling Friday, the die is cast for a no-holds-barred contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in 66 assembly constituencies across 10 districts in coastal and central Karnataka. ...

Source: www.prospect.org --- 3 hours ago
Tom Daschle thinks so, and he should know. The former senate minority leader sat down with Ezra Klein to discuss his new book, Critical, about how to free health-care reform from legislative gridlock. ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) -- Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor left the court in 2007 to take care of her husband who was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. ...

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It's going to be a tricky year to do your tax planning. ...