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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
House GOP Seeks Quick Vote on Iraq Pullout — WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans, sensing an opportunity for political advantage, maneuvered for a quick vote and swift rejection Friday of a Democratic lawmaker's call for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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Hotlineblog / Hotline On Call:
GOP Tries To Call Murtha's "Bluff" — We can now confirm that there will be a "Murtha Vote" later this p.m. Speaker Dennis Hastert's spokesperson Ron Bonjean tells The Hotline that it's a "vote to send a message to our American troops that we believe in their mission of fighting terrorists and we must not retreat and defeat."
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Associated Press:
Republicans seek vote on Iraq withdrawal proposal — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans sought a showdown Friday with Democrats on a proposal by one of their most senior members to force an end to the U.S. deployment of troops in Iraq. — Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, offered the resolution demanding a pullout.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
House GOP Seeks Quick Veto of Iraq Pullout — WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans maneuvered for swift rejection Friday of any notion of immediately pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, sparking a nasty, sometimes personal debate over the war and a Democratic lawmaker's own call for withdrawal.
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen / No End But Victory: We will stay the course. — Our mission in Iraq is clear …
Viveca Novak / Time:
Why Woodward's Source Came Clean — The famed Washington Post journalist describes the series of events that lead him and his source to Fitzgerald … As reporters keep scrambling to find out who told Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson's wife, Woodward himself has told TIME about a related mystery …
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Post Executive Editor Discusses Woodward — Reporter's Silence in CIA Leak Case Scrutinized — Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. was online Friday, Nov. 18, at 10 a.m. ET to discuss Bob Woodward 's revelation that he may have been the first reporter told of Valerie Plame 's identity as a CIA operative.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Voter ID memo stirs tension — Sponsor of disputed Georgia legislation told feds that blacks in her district only vote if they are paid to do so. — The chief sponsor of Georgia's voter identification law told the Justice Department that if black people in her district "are not paid to vote …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:Justice Plays Down Memo Critical of Ga. Voter ID Plan
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Open Source Media:
About our name — Some OSM readers have expressed consternation over our new company name, so please let us take a moment to explain—in the spirit of full disclosure—the story of its origin. At the outset, we formed a company under the masthead "Pajamas Media," after that now-famous remark …
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Brendan / Open Source:
The Name Problem, Part II — We're seeing a lot of blog traffic about this, so we thought we'd clear some things up. On Wednesday a blog and news site launched under the name "Open Source Media." As you might guess, this left us a little perplexed, so we sent them an email and posted this.
Telegraph:
I took Saddam's cash, admits French envoy — By Francis Harris in Washington and David Rennie in Brussels — One of France's most distinguished diplomats has confessed to an investigating judge that he accepted oil allocations from Saddam Hussein, it emerged yesterday.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Phony Theory, False Conflict — 'Intelligent Design' Foolishly Pits Evolution Against Faith — Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance, insists on hearing yet another appeal of the Scopes monkey trial, I feel obliged to point out what would otherwise be superfluous …
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Adam Entous / Reuters:
CIA leak prosecutor sees new grand jury proceedings — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case.
Washington Post:
Three Bombings in Iraq Kill More Than 90 — Hotel Housing Journalists, And Two Mosques North of Baghdad Targeted — BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 — Suicide bombers killed at least 90 worshipers Friday inside two Shiite Muslim mosques northeast of the capital near the Iranian border …
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New York Times:
Murtha Calls for a 'Change in Direction' — REP. MURTHA: I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings about the war. And I started out by saying the war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It's a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. The American public is way ahead of the members of Congress.
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Aljazeera:
US Democrat calls for Iraq pullout — A senior member of the US Democratic Party has called for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, rejecting White House attacks on critics of the war. — The call from Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a leading Democrat voice on military issues …
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Scanlon Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud — WASHINGTON — In a widening scandal on Capitol Hill, the government charged a partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff on Friday with defrauding Indian tribes of millions of dollars in a scheme that lavished golf trips, meals and campaign donations on a member of Congress.
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Associated Press:
House passes sweeping budget-cut bill — GOP rounds up enough reluctant moderates to eke out win — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans basked in triumph after razor-thin passage of a sweeping budget cut plan in the wee hours of Friday morning . — But intra-party tensions are sure …
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Brad Foss / Associated Press:
Oil Prices Drop Below $56 Per Barrel — Oil prices dipped below $56 a barrel on Friday, bringing crude futures — about 20 percent below the August peak. — The steady move lower coincided with a recent spate of mild weather, recovery of oil production and refining facilities that were shut …
