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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Strike Immigration Deal — WASHINGTON, April 5 — A group of Senate Republicans reached agreement Wednesday night on a compromise proposal that they hope can garner bipartisan support and bring passage of a bill on the future of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants.
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Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Campaign Finance Measure Approved — House Bill Would Cap '527' Donations, Used Largely by Democrats — The House approved campaign finance legislation last night that would benefit Republicans by placing strict caps on contributions to nonprofit committees that spent heavily in the last election …
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Senate GOP to filibuster alien bill — Senate Republicans will filibuster their own immigration bill today in the face of steadfast refusal by Democrats to allow amendments to the bill that many conservatives view as granting amnesty to illegal aliens. — As an alternative …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Criminal alien exception blocked — Senate Democrats refused to allow consideration of an amendment yesterday that would bar illegal aliens convicted of felonies from obtaining U.S. citizenship. — Democrats said the amendment would "gut" the immigration bill under consideration in the Senate and refused to allow a vote on it.
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Bush Said to Have Cleared Early Release of Iraq Intelligence to Times — New York Sun Web Exclusive — A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" …
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Murray Waas / National Journal:
Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks — Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff has testified that President Bush authorized him to disclose the contents of a highly classified intelligence assessment to the media to defend the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq …
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi Says Visit by Two Diplomats Backfired — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 5 — A top adviser to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Wednesday that the visit this week by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain had backfired, prolonging a deadlock …
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Diana Jean Schemo / New York Times:
Program on Vouchers Draws Minority Support — WASHINGTON, April 5 — As a student at Shaw Junior High School here, Amie Fuwa strained to shut out the distractions of friends cutting up. She struggled through math, and used photocopies or the library when textbooks were scarce.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House — Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans …
Josh White / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Challenges Rice on 'Tactical Errors' in Iraq — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he did not know what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was talking about when she said last week that the United States had made thousands of "tactical errors" in handling the war in Iraq …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Zeyad, blogger and journalist — Some big news in the blogging world, revealed today in the Wall Street Journal (free link): — Zeyad, the amazing blogger behind Healing Iraq, a founding father of the Iraqi blogosphere, has been accepted to the City University of New York's new Graduate School of Journalism (where I'll be teaching).
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Yochi J. Dreazen / Wall Street Journal:
Iraqi's Blog Chronicles Daily Life of a Nation in Turmoil
Iraqi's Blog Chronicles Daily Life of a Nation in Turmoil
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters — Candidate's Ties to President Bush Judged a Potential Vulnerability — An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems to pursue new strategy on abortion — The Senate Democratic leadership says it has found a wedge issue to strengthen the party's position on abortion rights, which top strategists think has become a liability in recent years. — The wedge is legislation expanding access …
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Rolls Out Nuclear Plan — The administration's proposal would modernize the nation's complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs. — The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation's decrepit nuclear weapons complex …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
South Park Takes On Islamists, Cowardly Broadcast Executives, And 'Family Guy' — Last week, when the raunchy cartoon series South Park killed off Chef after Isaac Hayes complained about the show's religious intolerance, some CQ readers noted that Matt Stone and Trey Parker had never taken on Muslims.
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