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Proposed legislation changes for badly-needed improvements to NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND have been stalled until at least next year. Why can't Congress take decisive action. And is there an alternative solution? Yes, there is!
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The US House of Representatives has approved a bill giving workplace rights to gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. The measure would make it illegal for decisions on hiring, firing, pay or promotion to be made on the basis of an employee's sexuality.
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Sen. Ted Kennedy was released from the hospital Saturday, following a procedure Friday to remove an artery blockage, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Democrat said.
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Why the White House should turn over secret legal memos, and why I'm sponsoring legislation to end brutal interrogations.
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Thank God!!!!!!!!!! "I think that this is probably the most inexplicable veto in the history of the country. It is incomprehensible. It is intolerable. It's unacceptable," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, who pleaded with Republicans to help overturn the veto."
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The Senate has passed legislation that requires monthly reports from the Pentagon on what is being done to protect U.S. troops against Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq.
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In a statement after the Senate vote, the White House said Bush "will veto this bill because it directs scarce funding to higher incomes at the expense of poor families."
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In the category of, "How Did This Happen?", comes an underhanded and successful attempt to pass 'hate crimes laws.'
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Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy could count on his daily dose of veneration. The right wing hated the Massachusetts Democrat, but progressives honored him as a defender of old-school liberalism.
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Amid all the flurry of last minute votes in the last day of session before the August break, Ted Kennedy's 15,000th vote was unnoticed till later. The Senate made amends with a tribute in the re-opening session.
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"The owner of Tarrasco Steel, a company that supplied workers on the Biloxi Bay Bridge, was arrested and charged with hiring illegal immigrants on projects in three states. Some had improper welding certification." DOH!
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Senate Democrats yesterday defeated a Republican effort to authorize $3 billion for new border security and immigration enforcement.
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WASHINGTON, July 19 — Arlen Specter is a senior United States senator who expects to be allowed his say on the Senate floor. So he bristled when Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, brusquely cut him off at the end of the Iraq debate.
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In 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died.
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Bush facing GOP mutiny over immigration By: Patrick O'Connor Jun 28, 2007 06:07 AM EST
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June 27, 2007 Spinning the Real Costs of Illegals By Robert Rector
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J.C. WATTS: We must get immigration reform right The whole immigration reform/amnesty/path to citizenship/border security debate has gotten really messy.
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During an appearance on the wildly popular Piolín in the Morning radio show in Los Angeles, Sen. Ted Kennedy broke into lively rendition of "Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes (Don't Give Up On Me)." They also discussed immigration reform.
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For Gordon, wind power is not a matter of altruism. He sees a potential for profit and an opportunity to cash in on government incentives designed to spur the development of alternative energy technologies.
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Mis-Immigration OPINION by RICK TYLER Press Secretary to Newt Gingrich June 22, 2007 Putting out your story in Washington is nothing new. Putting out your "facts" is nothing new either and the immigration debate has put up with plenty of both.
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WASHINGTON — The political fortunes of new congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid soared last year, and financial disclosure forms revealed Thursday they're also doing well in personal money matters.