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... When House Republicans took over in January they instituted a rule requiring legislation be posted three full days before a vote, which means the spending bill would have to be ready by Tuesday. Even then, that would give the Senate little time to act in order to get the measure ...
... of the budget, in foreign aid. And foreign assistance is -- is probably a more accurate word, term to use. But it's been a bipartisan bill in the past. And I certainly hope it will be a bipartisan understanding and bill in the future. We -- we pride ourselves on that ...
... are expected to ask about progress in the U.S. training of Afghan security forces. In an appearance at West Point Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told cadets in a surprisingly blunt assessment: "In my opinion, any future Defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American ...
... camps would gradually morph into shantytowns. Today in the Haitian capital, that process is well under way. Plywood, corrugated tin, beams, pieces of old iron gates ... they've been incorporated into the structures along with sheeting and tarps from international charities to make homes with a better chance of making ...
... family would be immune from prosecution on charges of corruption.The news of Yeltsin's death today came as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in Moscow for talks with President Putin.ROBERT GATES, Secretary of Defense: I extend my sympathies to his family and condolences to the ...
... Nemitz, a reporter with the Portland, Maine Press Herald. He is embedded with the 133rd engineer battalion of the Maine Army National Guard in Mosul. Bill Nemitz, welcome. You wrote today about an interview you had with Brig. Gen. Carter Hammond which he described an explosive device filled with pellets ...
We got to the police station. Bill Foster went to park the car, and I took her into the police station. And the rules of the road in those days were, at least for us at the Star-Telegram, if people didn't ask, we never told people who we ...
... ICE and other immigration operations are largely being paid during the partial shutdown, thanks to an influx of cash from Trump’s big tax breaks bill last year. “There are lots of ideas swirling right now,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. “The good news in all ...
It's up to Attorney General William Barr to decide how to handle Robert Mueller's report. But the attorney general is bound by federal laws that limit how certain material from federal investigations can be shared.
Congressional Republicans are holding a retreat in West Virginia this week to set the party's policy agenda for the upcoming year.
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