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Democrats.senate.gov:
SENATE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE JOINT RESOLUTION TO TRANSITION THE MISSION IN IRAQ — Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today joined Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer, Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray …
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Associated Press:
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008 — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the deadline would be added …
Washington Post:
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008 — House Democrats today unveiled a plan for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of August 2008, introducing legislation that attaches a complex series of conditions to military spending requested by President Bush.
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New York Times:
Buildup in Iraq Needed Into '08, U.S. General Says — The day-to-day commander of American forces in Iraq has recommended that the heightened American troop levels there be maintained through February 2008, military officials said Wednesday. — The White House has never said exactly …
David Stout / New York Times:
Democrats Propose Iraq Pullout Before Fall 2008
Democrats Propose Iraq Pullout Before Fall 2008
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Seth Stern / CQ.com:
Members Were Aware of Lapses at Walter Reed — Senior Republicans who knew about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center while their party controlled Congress insist they did all they could to prod the Pentagon to fix them. — But C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., former chairman …
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
A Verdict on the Wilson Affair — Denis Collins, a Washington journalist on the Scooter Libby jury, described sentiments in the jury room reflecting those in the Senate Democratic cloakroom: "It was said a number of times. . . . Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?"
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Michael Barone / US News:
Lawmaker's Intervention in Law Enforcement Crosses Line — The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush administration. — When a U.S. senator (to wit …
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Washington Post:
Senate Republicans Deliver Sharp Criticism of Gonzales — Senators Say Attorney General Fired Prosecutors Without Explanation — Senior Senate Republicans today delivered scathing criticism of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for his handling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys …
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Debra Burlingame / Opinion Journal:
Gitmo's Guerrilla Lawyers — How an unscrupulous legal and PR campaign changed the way the world looks at Guantanamo. — He was the first American to die in what some have called "the real war." Johnny "Mike" Spann, the 32-year-old CIA paramilitary commando, was interrogating prisoners …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Three Good Options for The Right — The axiom is as old as human striving: The perfect is the enemy of the good. In politics this means that insisting on perfection in a candidate interferes with selecting a satisfactory one. — Which is why the mood of many of the 6,300 people …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
FLASH: Here We Go Again — Pulitzer Finalists Leaked! — NEW YORK It didn't take long for the Pulitzer Prize finalist lists to begin leaking out. Within hours of the 14 Pulitzer juries packing up to go home on Wednesday after three days of judging at Columbia University, the names of this year's alleged finalists began to spread.
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Fox Makes Friends And Foes — WASHINGTON — Joe Lieberman was beaming. "Sam Fox represents what America is all about," he said, "and that's why he will be, when confirmed, an extraordinary ambassador." — The scene was last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
'Common Ground' Caucus — Four Leaders Seek Ideas — and Civility — It was not nostalgia or a desire for companionship that brought four former Senate leaders together in a meeting room on Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning, but rather a sense of alarm at the breakdown in civility …
Charles Hurt / Examiner:
Anti-terrorism bill to relax foreigners entry into US — WASHINGTON - The Senate's anti-terrorism bill would relax visa requirements for foreign travelers coming to the United States, a move that some worry will leave the country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
After Libby Trial, New Era for Government and Press — The investigation and trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, will have many legacies and lessons — for government officials, for supporters and critics of special prosecutors and for historians of the events leading to the war in Iraq.
Daniel Casse / contentions:
Rudy and Realignment — Anyone who doubts that the Reagan coalition no longer exists ought to look at the latest diatribe by the syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts, which ran prominently in my local paper. Roberts, some will recall, was one of the most prominent supply-siders in the late 1970's and early 1980's.