House approves bill limiting Afghan aid
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The House passed $6.4 billion legislation Wednesday that would cut off U.S. aid to local governments in Afghanistan with ties to drug dealers, criminals or terrorists, a standard the White House says is unrealistic.
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday gave overwhelming final approval to a bill that would ensure millions of middle income taxpayers do not become ensnared by a tax originally designed for millionaires.
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The House on Thursday approved an intelligence bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods
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The U.S. House of Representatives  overwhelmingly passed a &#36;427.6 billion Pentagon funding bill on  Tuesday after rejecting a bid by Democrats to force the Bush  administration to get court orders for its domestic  surveillance program.
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The House of Representatives on  Saturday passed a $32 billion bill funding homeland security  programs this year after days of political fighting over the  measure.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Saturday easily backed a $388 billion package financing  government programs in this fiscal year from bus stops to  foreign aid after days of battling over measures in the bill.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday repealing most of the District's gun laws, in a vote that handed an election-season victory to gun rights groups and was denounced by the city's leaders as a historic violation of home rule.
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The US House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday designed to tighten gun ownership, nearly two months after a disturbed student went on the deadliest ever US school shooting rampage.
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The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a &#36;32 billion bill funding homeland security programs this year after days of political fighting over the measure.
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The House on Saturday unanimously approved &#36;14.5 billion for hurricane victims and struggling farmers as Congress moved a step closer to showering money on Florida and other pivotal states in the upcoming elections.
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The House, in a bipartisan 344-51 vote, approved a $388 billion spending bill funding much of the federal government. The figure is 2 percent less than the same programs got last year.
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The House last night moved toward approving a $515.7 billion domestic spending bill that shaves billions from the Democrats' hoped-for spending levels but uses emergency spending and other tactics to challenge President Bush on his budget demands.
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The US House of Representatives moved to prohibit US funding of the UN Human Rights Council, derided by one member as a &quot;poisonous talk shop,&quot; as part of a mammoth funding bill passed early Friday.
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The House passed a $37.4 billion budget bill for the Homeland Security Department on Friday, but minority Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a promised veto by President Bush.
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The House of Representatives on   Wednesday passed a bill backed by President George W. Bush   setting rules for interrogating and trying foreign terrorism   suspects, dismissing warnings from Democrats that courts will   reject the plan.
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The House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat and passed on Friday a foreign aid bill that would allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning groups outside the United States even though they engage in abortion activities.