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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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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Lawmakers Reject Immediate Iraq Withdrawal — The House on Friday overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by the Republicans that was intended to fail. Democrats derided the vote as a political stunt. — "Our troops have become the enemy.
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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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.
CNN:
Defense official: Rumsfeld given Iraq withdrawal plan — Plan calls for troops to begin pulling out after December elections — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top U.S. commander in Iraq has submitted a plan to the Pentagon for withdrawing troops in Iraq, according to a senior defense official.
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout — WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - Republicans and Democrats shouted, howled and slung insults on the House floor on Friday as a debate over whether to withdraw American troops from Iraq descended into a fury over President Bush's handling of the war …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House Rejects Iraq Pullout After GOP Forces a Vote — Differences over policy on the Iraq war ignited an explosion of angry words and personal insults on the House floor yesterday when the chamber's newest member suggested that a decorated war veteran was a coward for calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
G.O.P. Tries to Split Democrats With Vote on Iraq War — WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - House Republicans are attempting to split the ranks of the Democrats tonight by offering a resolution to withdraw American troops from Iraq immediately. The Republican-controlled House is expected to defeat …
Tim Saler / No End But Victory:
Iraq Withdrawal Vote — Tonight in the House — Note: The quotes below may be inexact, but they are as close as I can decipher in real-time from a C-SPAN feed. If I have made a mistake and you're sure of it, please post a comment and I will correct the record.
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.
Kit Jarrell / euphoricreality.net:House Repubs Force Vote on Iraq War
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:Format Break: Ok Big Mouths, Vote On An Iraq Pull-Out
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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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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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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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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:DeLay Ex-Aide to Plead Guilty in Lobby Case
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CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described — Sources Say Agency's Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death — Nov. 18, 2005 — Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since …
BBC:
Index ranks Middle East freedom — There is a wide range of democratisation across the Middle East, a survey by a leading research and advisory firm has found. — The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked 20 countries on 15 indicators of political and civil liberty.
Think Progress:
VIDEO: Schmidt's Shame — Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) today on the House floor, speaking about Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a decorated former Marine: … Watch in Quicktime — Schmidt was later forced to return to the House floor and have her remarks stricken from the record.
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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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