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11:40:03 PM FEDS: Media Shield Bill Bad Public Policy
Guardian - UK

.... Barbara Boxer said the disclosure of Plame's identity was damaging to efforts by the CIA and other government agencies to attract more women. .... [more]

11:40:03 PM LA'S new mayor asks for money on first trip to Washington, DC
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

.... with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and having dinner with the state's senior senator, Democrat Dianne Feinstein. Villaraigosa had ... [more]

11:16:03 PM DELAY says he'd support Wright Amendment's repeal
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that he would vote for repeal of the Wright Amendment, but that for now he is staying out of the debate ... [more]

9:52:04 PM JOHN Roberts? No Sandra Day O'Connor! Written by Sen. John Kerry
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Posted by PHX - US Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday July 20, 2005 at 12:13 pm MST [ Send Story to Friend ]. This much is clear already. ... [more]

9:00:04 PM WHITE House Against Law To Protect Journalists
Channel Oklahoma.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

WASHINGTON -- Taking heat over adviser Karl Rove's role in the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity, the White House is labeling as "bad policy" a bill ... [more]

9:00:04 PM US' White House says China not a threat, despite Pentagon's ...
Forbes - USA

WASHINGTON (AFX) - The United States does not consider China a threat, the White House said today after China protested about a Defense Department report which ... [more]

9:00:04 PM UPDATE 1-White House says watching Northwest contract talks
Reuters - USA

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it was keeping a close eye on a contract dispute between Northwest Airlines (NWAC.O: Quote ... [more]

9:00:04 PM WHITE House criticizes ‘shield' legislation
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA

WASHINGTON (AP) - Under fire for presidential adviser Karl Rove's role in the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity, the Bush administration today ... [more]

9:00:04 PM BUSH Says Supreme Court Confirmation Process Off to Good Start
Voice of America - USA

.... President Bush told security officials at the Port of Baltimore ... The president urged Senators to rise to the ... Republican Senators are already praising the 50-year ... [more]

9:00:04 PM CLINTON, Tanzanian president launch program to expand HIV/AIDS ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Former President Clinton and Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa launched a program Wednesday to expand HIV/AIDS treatment in rural ... [more]

9:00:04 PM BUSH vows to safeguard US transit against attack
Reuters - USA

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - President Bush pledged on Wednesday to boost protection of US transit systems against an attack in the aftermath of the London bombings ... [more]

9:00:03 PM FOR Bush, It Matters Gravely What Happens in Gaza
Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia,PA,USA

.... He fears he doesn't have the political backing to ... With Bush's call for democratic elections in Arab states as a ... of his foreign policy, the president will find ... [more]

9:00:03 PM HOW Bush Made the Call
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

.... the ropes, by staging the kind of grand political theater that only the president of the United States can really carry off. This is where the Bush White House ... [more]

9:00:03 PM DEMOCRATS unlikely to block Bush court nominee-analysts
Reuters - USA

.... at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint ... has a strong tradition of letting the President have his ... minority's ability to use the filibuster to block ... [more]

7:24:03 PM UNITY Campaign for Peace, Justice and Democracy
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA

.... Barbara Boxer (D-CA) challenged the vote but then her Democratic colleagues said things like ‘we were not making this challenge to change the result.' Why ... [more]

7:24:03 PM POLITICAL fight begins for Roberts nomination
KHON2 - Honolulu,HI,USA

.... Barbara Boxer, D- Calif., who is not a member of the Gang of 14, told FOX News on Wednesday that she urged Bush to pick someone in the mold of O'Connor, seen ... [more]

6:54:03 PM DELAY Supports Repeal Of Love Field Flight Restrictions
NBC5i.com - Ft. Worth,TX,USA

FORT WORTH, Texas -- US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says he'd favor repeal of federal restrictions on long-haul commercial airline flights in and out of ... [more]

5:48:03 PM SENATE panel backs health technology bill
Reuters - USA

.... Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, and New York Democrat Hillary Clinton had written one, and Enzi and his panel's top Democrat, Edward ... [more]

5:48:03 PM CONSERVATIVES I really dislike: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill ...
Boston Herald - United States

Why I have my views: I've seen the best and worst of both major political parties, and am pretty fed up with them playing their little schoolyard games to rile ... [more]

5:48:03 PM COALITION of Patient Groups and Scientists Call on Senator Frist ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA

WASHINGTON, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR) called on Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to "give us a fair ... [more]

4:50:05 PM DINING at the White House
SF Weekly - San Francisco,CA,USA

.... We used a light white Bordeaux to wash down the delectable transcript of the White House press corps grilling poor, chubby Press Secretary Scott McClellan with ... [more]

4:50:05 PM JUDGE Accepts Plea Deal in White House Threat
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

A Michigan man who threatened to blow up his van in front of the White House has been ordered to stay away from DC for more than five years. .... [more]

4:50:05 PM BETTORS take aim at latest White House Scandal
Yahoo News (press release) - USA

WASHINGTON, DC, July 20 /PRNewswire/ - Sportsbook.com has entered the fray in the latest political storm to rock the White House by offering odds on the future ... [more]

4:50:05 PM BRAZILIANS poke fun at political scandal
Reuters - USA

.... DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - As Brazil's worst political crisis in .... of Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush and Saddam ... President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has ... [more]

4:50:04 PM PUTIN to discuss human rights situation with Belarus president
Forbes - USA

.... W. Bush as 'the last dictatorship in Europe.'. The Russian president was speaking at a Kremlin meeting with non-governmental organisations, where political ... [more]

4:50:04 PM BUSH Tax Panel to Recommend Abolishing Alternative Minimum Tax
Bloomberg - USA

July 20 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's tax advisory panel will recommend repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax, said former Senator Connie Mack of ... [more]

4:50:04 PM BUSH Says Government Focused on Security
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Nearly two weeks after terrorists launched a deadly strike on the London mass transit system, President Bush sought Wednesday to reassure Americans that his ... [more]

4:50:04 PM THE brilliance of president's court choice
MSNBC - USA

.... the words of the old Texas cliché, President Bush is the ... kind of personality is rare in politics, even rarer ... As a matter of political strategy, Roberts was a ... [more]

1:24:05 PM WHITE House wrong about meth danger
Contra Costa Sun - Orinda,CA,USA

The July 6 article on methamphetamines quoted a White House policy analyst, Dave Murray, who delivered a dismissive statement encapsulating Washington's view ... [more]

1:24:05 PM FORMER FBI agent enters politics
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

.... Munger, a former FBI agent, accepted the Republican Town Committee's nomination Tuesday night to challenge incumbent Mayor Dannel Malloy, a Democrat. ... [more]

1:24:04 PM BUSH, Roberts meet on confirmation process
Science Daily (press release) - USA

.... Bush nominates Roberts for Supreme Court (July 19, 2005) -- President Bush has picked US Circuit Judge John Roberts, a moderate conservative, to fill the ... [more]

12:16:03 PM DEMS Will Wait and See on Roberts
FOX News - USA

.... filibuster judicial nominees only in "extraordinary circumstances.". Sen. Barbara Boxer, D- Calif. (search), who is not a member of ... [more]

11:20:03 AM THE Daily Show: July 19, 2005
TV Squad - Santa Monica,CA,USA

.... "Bill Frist fired back and ... Tomorrow's guest will be Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And now, your Moment of Zen: Bill Frist struggling awkwardly to get a few words out. [more]

10:52:04 AM LETTERS: "Imagine my surprise that George Bush would raise the bar ...
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

.... about, before raising our voices in political discourse ... oxygen to get the stench of politics out of ... obstruct and vilify Kenneth Starr, President Bush has fully ... [more]

10:52:03 AM BUSH defiant with `mainstream' choice
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

.... At once, the president gains some much-needed short ... But in the public realm, political fights like this one ... style has been built on Republican majorities rather ... [more]

10:48:04 AM FREE-TRADE pact worthy of passage
Miami Herald - FL,USA

.... That's why Florida's two senators, Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson, supported CAFTA-DR three weeks ago in a Senate vote, despite intense lobbying by Florida sugar ... [more]

10:48:03 AM SUPPORT follows partisan lines
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

.... from this perspective.". Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., was much more enthusiastic, calling Roberts an "outstanding choice.". "He's a man ... [more]

10:46:03 AM LACROSSE team causes flip flop flap at White House
Edmonton Sun - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada

.... There's a flip-flop controversy at the White House, and this one has nothing to do with President George W. Bush and former presidential challenger John Kerry. ... [more]

9:52:03 AM HOUSE OKs Hamilton levee project; Senate votes nextBy BARBARA ...
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA

.... Puente added his appreciation and gratitude for the help of Sens. Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Herger for their support in pushing the project closer. ... [more]

9:48:03 AM SEVERAL Congressmen laud PM's address to US Congress
Deepika - India

.... these, and other, common points and develop a friendship to the mutual benefit of both the countries.'' House Majority leader Republican Tom Delay (Texas), who ... [more]

8:54:04 AM KYL measure adds steps for entrants to work US jobs
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA

.... Last week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist predicted that Congress is unlikely to act on immigration reform legislation this year. ... [more]

8:54:03 AM SENATE Moving Fast to Fill High Court Seat
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

.... Roberts himself was wasting no time, scheduling visits Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen ... [more]

8:36:04 AM WONDERING about White House values
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA

With Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper now acknowledging that it was Bush political czar Karl Rove who first supplied the information that the wife of ... [more]

8:36:04 AM ROVE-PLAME Scandal Leading to Deeper White House Horrors?
Axis of Logic - Boston,MA,USA

.... New York Times that got this whole thing going -- are just the tips of very large icebergs, and one of those icebergs has a name: the White House Iraq Group ... [more]

8:36:04 AM A flap over White House footwear
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Pretend you've been invited to a White House ceremony by virtue of having won, say, an NCAA championship in women's lacrosse. Now ... [more]

8:36:04 AM BUSH, Australian Leader Still in Accord on Iraq
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

WASHINGTON -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard agreed Tuesday with President Bush that it would be unwise to set a deadline for withdrawing troops from ... [more]

8:36:03 AM BUSH Leans Right in Court Pick
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... later became Whitewater prosecutor during President Clinton's terms .... attempt to block the nomination through a filibuster. ... burning as a form of political protest ... [more]

8:30:05 AM INSIDE Capitol, cheers welcome democratic ally
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

.... House members. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., one of the escorts, was seated prominently in the front of the chamber. Martinez said ... [more]

8:30:05 AM FORMER official: Reduce Cuba tensions
CubaNet - Coral Gables,FL,USA

.... month. Lazo has met with more than 50 members of Congress, including one 40-minute encounter with Florida Sen. Mel Martínez. It ... [more]

8:30:05 AM FLA. senators to study record before deciding about vote
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

.... Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Melbourne, was non-committal about Bush's choice, while Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Orlando, praised Roberts' record. ... [more]

8:06:04 AM YOUTH PAGE: Responding, in search of a greater understanding
Henderson Daily Dispatch - Henderson,NC,USA

.... Senator John Kerry is not the wonderful person to protect the pitiful ones in this income bracket. The "wonderful" John Kerry wants ... [more]

8:06:03 AM THE race between George W. Bush and John Kerrypromises to be a ...
Business Today Egypt - Cairo,Egypt

.... In the same way George W. Bush assumed the presidency, he ends his first term neck-and-neck with his Democratic rival, Senator John Kerry. .... [more]

7:30:08 AM ROVE Who? It's All About Roe Now
Pardon My English - Salem,MA,USA

.... Barbara Boxer made it clear this afternoon that anyone to the right of O'Connor would find themselves in the middle of a fight to the death. .... [more]

7:30:08 AM BUSH Picks Roberts
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

.... Barbara Boxer, also a Democrat, issued a statement saying Roberts' record "raises questions about his commitment to the right of privacy, protection of the ... [more]

7:26:04 AM TOM DeLay and Karl Rove: Bill Clinton's Cynical Game of Smear ...
Nonconformist Magazine - USA

.... White House. A likely first target for this decapitation operation is the majority leader in the house, Tom DeLay. Elected majority ... [more]

7:26:04 AM TOM DeLay meets PM, hails his visit to US
Hindu - Chennai,India

20 (PTI): House of Representatives Leader Tom DeLay, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and said his visit to the United States was a symbol of strong and ... [more]

6:24:05 AM SENATE braces for confirmation
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

.... Republicans quickly lined up behind Roberts Tuesday night, with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) calling him "the kind of outstanding nominee that ... [more]

6:24:05 AM FRIST tries to juggle stem-cell interests
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is in a difficult and tight spot as he tries -- perhaps in vain -- to find a way for the Senate to address the contentious ... [more]

6:24:05 AM BILL Frist: Treat Roberts With 'Dignity, Respect'
Human Events - USA

(The following is a statement issued by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday about the nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr., to the Supreme Court.). ... [more]

5:46:07 AM MEXICO'S president surveys Emily's wrath
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

Mexican President Vicente Fox toured Tuesday areas of the Yucatan peninsula that were devastated this week by Hurricane Emily. Fox ... [more]

5:46:07 AM BUSH Officials Defend India Nuclear Deal
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Bush administration officials yesterday lobbied Congress and tried to assure .... Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, and Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the ... [more]

5:46:07 AM BUSH takes media by the horns after days of trouble
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

President Bush had no control over when Supreme Court ... focus away from the troubles facing Bush's embattled adviser ... NBC Nightly News that every Republican he had ... [more]

5:46:06 AM HOW Bush picked Roberts
MSNBC - USA

WASHINGTON - President Bush's search for a Supreme Court nominee began with a list of 11 names. It ended after John G. Roberts ... [more]

5:36:04 AM VIETNAM veterans to gather, discuss money for health care
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA

.... Bill Nelson's office is also sending a representative. A spokesman for US Sen. Mel Martinez did not know Tuesday whether anyone from that office would attend. ... [more]

5:36:04 AM GREENSPAN Faces Lawmakers' Questions on Rates, Housing, Jobs
Bloomberg - USA

.... ``It could be the last time,'' said Senator Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida who sits on the Banking committee, in an interview. ... [more]

4:32:04 AM ABORTION rights in the balance
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA

.... Hillary Rodham Clinton (DN.Y.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.), as well as Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Howard Dean--have all signaled their willingness ... [more]

4:32:04 AM MASS. senators say no free pass for Roberts
Providence Eyewitness News - RI,USA

WASHINGTON Bay State senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry say there's no free pass for Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts. ... [more]

3:08:04 AM SUPREME Court nomination quotes
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

.... of the environment and other important issues." - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. "Liberal pressure groups will insist that Senate ... [more]

3:08:04 AM SENATE supports US-backed loans for China
Reuters - USA

.... In an unusual Senate alliance, conservative Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn and liberal California Democrat Barbara Boxer pushed to halt the loans that the ... [more]

12:58:04 AM HEALTH IT bills merged
Government Health IT - Falls Church,VA,USA

.... The Frist-Clinton bill had 13 co-sponsors besides Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (DN.Y.). ... [more]

12:58:04 AM SENATE Approves Crawford to Head FDA
FOX News - USA

.... Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called Crawford a "strong leader" but warned that he takes over FDA at a critical time. ... [more]

12:38:04 AM WHITE House releases draft civil service reform bill
FCW.com - USA

The White House today revealed another major piece of its second term government transformation project by releasing a draft version of civil service reform .... [more]

12:38:04 AM N. Korean defector meets with Bush
Science Daily (press release) - USA

WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- North Korean defector and author Kang Chol-hwan told President George Bush that the United States should help people flee the ... [more]

12:38:04 AM BUSH'S Intelligence Briefing Gets Overhaul
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... The quality of the President's Daily Brief -- or PDB ... page report by a commission Bush formed to ... member intelligence commission led by Republican Judge Laurence ... [more]

12:38:04 AM REPUBLICAN, Democratic party leaders court Hispanics
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

.... In a sign of the growing political clout of ... give opportunities for elected officials in politics to Latinos ... by listing Hispanics named by President Bush to his ... [more]

12:38:04 AM BUSH Nominates Federal Judge Roberts
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer. President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his ... [more]

12:38:04 AM BUSH to Announce John G. Roberts Jr. as Supreme Court Nominee
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

.... views arouse enough opposition to inspire a Democratic filibuster. .... news conference, in which the president suggested that ... A Republican with close ties to the ... [more]

12:00:04 AM KERRY raising millions for Democrats
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

John Kerry, who last November lost his bid for the White House, has spent the last seven months raising millions of dollars for Democrats across the country. ... [more]



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