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House GOP Seeks Votes for Budget-Cut Bill (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Nov 17 2005 04:50
AP - House Republicans are striving to pass a deficit reduction bill to curb spending on Medicaid, food stamps and student loan subsidies. On a parallel track they are succeeding in their drive to freeze many agency budgets funded through annual spending bills.




Cheney calls war critics 'dishonest, reprehensible'
Source: Reuters - Nov 17 2005 00:21
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the sharpest White House attack yet on critics of the Iraq war, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday that accusations the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify the war were a "dishonest and reprehensible" political ploy.

Reporter's account could help Libby's defense
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 22:13
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's defense against charges he lied to investigators and a grand jury in the CIA leak investigation got ...

House working on deal to preserve, alter Patriot Act
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 22:08
Lawmakers were trying to hammer out an agreement Wednesday that would extend key components of the nation's main anti-terrorism ...

Judge finds 'Post' reporter in contempt
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 22:45
A federal judge found Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in contempt Wednesday, saying the journalist must reveal his government ...

DeLay Prosecutors Deny Misconduct Charges (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Nov 16 2005 20:33

Judge Pat Priest of San Antonio, Texas, poses for a picture Oct. 6, 1995. Priest was selected to preside over Rep. Tom DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering trial Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005, after another judge became the second to step away from involvement in the case because of political contributions he has made. The change of venue request probably will be the first order of business for semi-retired San Antonio Judge Pat Priest.  (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Edward A. Ornelas)AP - Prosecutors in Rep. Tom DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering case on Wednesday denied allegations that they coerced a grand jury to indict the former House majority leader.



Judge finds Post reporter in contempt
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 20:21
A federal judge found Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in contempt Wednesday, saying the journalist must reveal his government ...

Frist says asbestos bill tops Jan. list
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 20:14
The establishment of a $140 billion trust fund to compensate people sickened by exposure to asbestos will be the GOP-controlled ...

House GOP Leaders Seek Budget Cut Votes (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Nov 16 2005 20:39
AP - House Republican leaders are trying hard to salvage a deficit reduction plan that is a pillar of the GOP's agenda, hoping to avoid a repeat of last week's embarrassing setback.

Framework for disaster insurance plan proposed
Source: Reuters - Nov 16 2005 20:21
The regulators had met on Tuesday and Wednesday in Burlingame, California to discuss the plan for the program and at a news conference said they would aim to craft a bipartisan coalition of local, state and federal officials to support it.

Documents show Nixon deception on war in Cambodia
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 20:12
Newly declassified documents from the Nixon years shed light on the Vietnam War, the struggle with the Soviet Union for global ...

Top Senate Democrat concerned about Alito
Source: USATODAY.com - Nov 16 2005 19:59
Democrats said on Wednesday that Samuel Alito's confirmation was not guaranteed as senators kept the focus on a 20-year-old document ...

Democrats Focus on 1985 Alito Document (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Nov 16 2005 19:10

Judge Samuel Alito meets with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005, to discuss Alito's  nomination to the Supreme Court.  (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)AP - Democrats said on Wednesday that Samuel Alito's confirmation was not guaranteed as senators kept the focus on a 20-year-old document in which the Supreme Court nominee asserted that the Constitution "does not protect a right to an abortion."



Woodward testifies in CIA leak probe, apologizes
Source: Reuters - Nov 16 2005 19:30
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA leak probe on Wednesday ensnared Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, who disclosed that he was told about CIA operative Valerie Plame nearly a month before her secret identity was revealed and apologized to his editor for keeping him in the dark.

Newsview: Bush Risks Alienating GOP on War (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Nov 16 2005 19:09

U.S. President George W. Bush waves at the audience after giving a speech at a meeting hosted by the western Japanese region's business organization in Kyoto Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005. Bush prodded China to grant more political freedom to its 1.3 billion people and held up archrival Taiwan as a society that successfully moved from repression to democracy as it opened its economy. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara, POOL)AP - President Bush's efforts to paint Democrats as hypocrites for criticizing the Iraq war after they once warned that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat could backfire on Republicans.



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