Democrats Assail G.O.P. for Silence on Foley
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Democrats expressed outrage today that Republican leaders had waited nearly a year to tell them about e-mails between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page.
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Congressional Democrats, trying to have the first word on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to renounce use of waterboarding in interrogations, close Guantanamo Bay to detainees and outline new policies toward Pakistan and Iran.
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Preprinted absentee ballots that list resigned Rep. Mark Foley as a candidate will not include an explanation that he withdrew from the race, election supervisors said.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to investigate how lawmakers handled allegations that Rep. Mark Foley exchanged sexually explicit messages with teenage congressional pages. The move comes after Democrats questioned whether the House's GOP leadership had squelched concerns about Foley, a Republican who now has resigned.
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A congressional ethics committee approved about 50 subpoenas on Thursday as it launched a probe into former Rep. Mark Foley's contacts with teenage assistants in a sex scandal enveloping Republicans as they struggle to keep control of Congress.
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House Democrats, responding to Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is exempt from certain national security disclosure requirements, said Tuesday they will try to strip some of his funding.
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The opposition Democratic Party used its weekly radio address Saturday to criticize the Bush administration for failing to properly armor vehicles used by US troops in Iraq.
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Newt Gingrich, rebutting criticism the GOP is hiding conservatives during its convention, accused Democrats Monday of shunting anti-abortion and conservative Democrats to the side.
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The House ethics committee has found that Republican leaders did not break any rules in handling allegations against former Rep. Mark Foley, but that they were negligent in protecting the teenage pages, sources said. No one will be reprimanded, the sources said.
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Alberto R. Gonzales' civil liberties record worries Democrats; conservatives question him on abortion and affirmative action.
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The Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint over a large broadcast chain's plans to air a documentary highly critical of presidential nominee John Kerry just before the election, party officials said.
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Considered a long shot just two days ago to unseat a prominent House Republican, Democrat Tim Mahoney on Saturday began to talk about the scandal surrounding Rep. Mark Foley that may propel him to Congress.
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Democrats need to do something dramatic, even histrionic, to dispel the perception they are powerless to stop the Iraq War.
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In the wake of the Foley scandal, some House members are calling for the suspension, if not the end, of Congress' venerable study program
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The Republican leader of the U.S.  House of Representatives said his office knew a year ago about  inappropriate contact between a former intern and newly  resigned Rep. Mark Foley and called on Saturday for a criminal  probe of the matter.
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Congressional Democrats on Monday singled out presidential adviser Karl Rove for questioning about the firings of eight federal prosecutors and whether the dismissals were politically motivated.
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The refusal of attorney general-nominee Michael Mukasey to directly disavow waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques frustrated Senate Democrats Thursday.