Under New Rules, House Can Speak of Senate
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Tinkering with a tradition that goes back to Thomas Jefferson, House members in the new Congress will be able to refer to senators by name on the floor &#151; as long as they don't get too personal.
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The 336-75 roll call Tuesday by which the House passed a bill to overhaul the nation's intelligence network.
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New rules to protect viewers who take part in phone votes and contests are introduced after a string of scandals.
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A day after backing off a rules  change that would have allowed an indicted congressional leader  to retain his post, the House of Representatives on Tuesday  adopted a separate change that will make it harder to pursue  ethics probes of members of Congress.
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House and Senate leaders were pushing for some legislative achievements before heading home to campaign.
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With a dash of pomp and a dose of controversy over ethics rules, the new Congress convened Tuesday, more Republican than the old and intent on tackling Social Security and the rest of President Bush's ambitious agenda.
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House Republican leaders are urging members to alter one of the chamber&#39;s fundamental ethics rules to make it harder for lawmakers to discipline a colleague.
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Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave a  first nod to new tougher rules for setting up political parties  -- a key element of President Vladimir Putin's reforms, which  could dramatically change the political system.
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In their new role as the House majority, the Democrats so far this year have shown overwhelming unity on legislative votes. There are some exceptions, though Ã¢ÂÂ and they mostly come from members of the big and decisive House Class of 2006 who prevailed last year in politically competitive districts and could face difficult re-election contests in 2008.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in the snooping after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Two congressional committees are scheduled this week to consider a bill giving the District its first full vote in the House, and senior Democrats hope to pass it in the House and send it to the Senate this month.
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âFoot-in-mouthâ senator has found a new strategy to stay on message.
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The House of Representatives  approved a bill on Friday to overhaul the creaking private  pension system and prevent more spectacular airline pension  defaults, and sent the measure to the Senate for possible  action next week.
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A Senate committee voted Wednesday to scuttle new rules that critics say would deny overtime pay to millions of workers, as Democrats won the latest round in their election-year bout with President Bush over the issue.
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The first thing the new, Democratic-led Senate will do next year is meet in a closed "bipartisan caucus" to help set a more pleasant tone than the relentless backbiting of the Congress now heading home, party leaders said Friday.
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The argument in the Senate today seems likely to focus on potential changes to the bill, rather than on its overall fate.
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Democrats are aiming for a resolution that is simpler than the Senate's.