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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House — WASHINGTON, May 23 — After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration's assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend. — Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second …
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Washington Post:
Officials Defend Raid on Lawmaker's Office — Amid Uproar on Capitol Hill, Gonzales Says Jefferson Search Was Done Carefully — Justice Department and FBI officials yesterday vigorously defended a weekend raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson (La.) …
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
Criminal, Schriminal - We're Talking PRIVILEGES Here! — Congressional Calamities , Crime and Punishment — United States Constitution ~ Article I ~ § 6 ~ ¶ 1: … I think it was Paul Mirengoff over on Power Line who wondered how long it would be before the blatant bribery case …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
House speaker protests to Bush over raid — WASHINGTON - The FBI's raid on a congressman's office is rippling through Capitol Hill, with majority Republicans in the House complaining to a GOP president and predicting a constitutional showdown in the Supreme Court.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Subpoenas Not Enough? — The corruption case of William Jefferson took a strange turn yesterday when several Republican members of Congress objected to the execution of a subpoena on the uncooperative subject of the investigation. House Speaker Dennis Hastert questioned the constituionality …
Edwin Meese Iii / New York Times:
An Amnesty by Any Other Name ... IN the debate over immigration, "amnesty" has become something of a dirty word. Some opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the Senate assert that it would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Supporters claim it would do no such thing.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House-Senate Battle On Immigration Likely — With the Senate marching toward completion of an immigration bill that is more generous to illegal immigrants than the House-passed version, House leaders said yesterday that it will be difficult to reach a compromise and enact a measure.
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Michelle Malkin:
MEESE: IT IS AMNESTY — ***scroll for updates...958am EDT: Senate voting on whether to kill the McConnell amendment to the immig bill, which would require voting identification (hat tip: Nighthaven)...motion to table is not agreed to...1000am EDT: Here we go on cloture vote …
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill
Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill
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Laura Blumenfeld / Washington Post:
Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart — The houses were dark on Bill Frist's street. A morning bird chirped; the others were waiting for dawn. But Frist was awake, and his bedroom light was on. "I'm going to take a shower," the Senate majority leader said brightly. Ten minutes later, the blow dryer roared.
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Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Proponents Press Senate on Stem Cell Research Measure — A full year after the House passed legislation that would loosen President Bush's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the Senate is coming under intense pressure to tackle the controversial bill — in the awkward new context of an election year.
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board — The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization's policies and internal administration. — "Where an individual director disagrees with a board position …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Senate Panel Endorses C.I.A. Nominee — WASHINGTON, May 23 — The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly endorsed Gen. Michael V. Hayden on Tuesday to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with all but three members, all Democrats, voting to send General Hayden's nomination to the Senate floor.
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Durham Herald-Sun:
Defense's beefs with accuser's story cited — DURHAM — Sources close to the defense team in the Duke lacrosse rape case again tried to cast doubt on the accuser's credibility Tuesday, saying evidence collected so far points to problems with her story. — For example, three defense sources …
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Bloomberg:
Zoellick Would Leave State If Passed Over for Top Treasury Job — May 24 (Bloomberg) — One of the Bush administration's most prominent foreign and economic policy voices, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, may soon depart for the private sector. — Zoellick has told administration officials …
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StrategyPage:
Taliban Offensive Shot to Pieces — May 24, 2006: The last two weeks have seen an ambitious Taliban offensive shot to pieces. As many as a thousand Taliban gunmen, in half a dozen different groups, have passed over the Pakistani border, or been gathered within Afghanistan …
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Armed Groups Propel Iraq Toward Chaos — Haider Hamid was arrested in Baghdad on April 15 by officers wearing Interior Ministry uniforms, according to Mr. Hamid's brother, Majid. Majid Hamid found his brother's body, above, showing signs of torture, five days later in the city morgue.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
It Was Just A Matter of Time — ... before Lou Dobbs went full-on racist on the immigration question. Liberal Oasis has the story: … The CCC is a well known neo-confederate group that is the direct heir to the White Citizens Councils of the Jim Crow south.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Phone-Data Collection — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday that the government can obtain domestic telephone records without court approval under a 1979 Supreme Court ruling that authorized the collection of business records.
The Raw Story:
Pelosi asks congressman snared in bribery probe to resign post — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has formally asked Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) to resign from the powerful Ways and Means Committee. — Jefferson wrote Pelosi quickly in reply, refusing to surrender his seat.
Martin Samuel / Times of London:
Turn 9/11 rubble into a killing machine? Hello? — Whoever said that irony was dead in America clearly hadn't heard about the assault ship USS New York — THE CLICHÉ goes that Americans do not understand irony. Not true. Seinfeld ran for 181 episodes and TV Guide rated it the best comedy show ever.
Bob Kerrey / The Huffington Post:
My Perspective on the New School Commencement — After following the exchange between Senator John McCain's Chief of Staff, Mark Salter, and one of The New School's graduating students Jean Sara Rohe, I am compelled to add my perspective and thoughts about the events, which took place at last Friday's New School commencement.
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