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Love Fest, Parker House Win in Alabama's GOP Runoffs
CQPolitics.com - Republican candidates for Alabama's two highly competitive open-seat House races were nominated in runoff elections Tuesday.
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CQPolitics.com - Republican candidates for Alabama's two highly competitive open-seat House races were nominated in runoff elections Tuesday.
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Congress overrides Bush's Medicare vetoReuters - In what likely is the last big showdown between President George W. Bush and congressional Democrats over the popular Medicare health care program, the U.S. Congress on Tuesday voted to override his veto of a bill to keep doctors' payments from being slashed.
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House votes to override Bush Medicare veto
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to override President George W. Bush's veto of a Medicare bill that would cancel a scheduled 11 percent pay cut to doctors who treat patients in the health care program for the elderly.
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Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to override President George W. Bush's veto of a Medicare bill that would cancel a scheduled 11 percent pay cut to doctors who treat patients in the health care program for the elderly.
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House Republicans call for hearing on GSE rescue
Reuters - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Tuesday called for hearings on the Bush administration's proposal to shore up mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a move that could slow down congressional action on a housing rescue package.
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Reuters - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Tuesday called for hearings on the Bush administration's proposal to shore up mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a move that could slow down congressional action on a housing rescue package.
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Rep. Markey seeks mandatory SPR oil withdrawalReuters - The U.S. government would withdraw 500,000 barrels of oil a day from an emergency reserve over six months to help lower retail gasoline prices under legislation being sought by a key Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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House's Hoyer targets timely action on GSE planReuters - The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives on Monday said he does not expect housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will need to draw on additional liquidity or capital from the Treasury Department or the Federal Reserve.
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House Democrats to push oil production billReuters - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, seeking to counter Republican charges that they are anti-drilling, will try to pass an energy package as early as next week aimed at increasing domestic oil production.
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Ex-Bush advior fails to testify in CongressAFP - A former top aide to President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, failed to show up for subpoenaed testimony before the House of Representatives Thursday in a probe of controversial firings of federal prosecutors, at Bush's request, sources said.
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Housing bill clears Senate procedural hurdle
Reuters - A bill to save hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure cleared a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday and moved a step closer to being sent to the House of Representatives for needed agreement.
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Reuters - A bill to save hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure cleared a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday and moved a step closer to being sent to the House of Representatives for needed agreement.
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House Democrats suspend spending bills
AP - Sidestepping battles with Republicans over offshore oil drilling and pork barrel projects, Democrats controlling the House have called a halt to efforts to pass the 12 annual bills that fund Cabinet agency budgets.
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AP - Sidestepping battles with Republicans over offshore oil drilling and pork barrel projects, Democrats controlling the House have called a halt to efforts to pass the 12 annual bills that fund Cabinet agency budgets.
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