Ala. lawmaker punches Senate colleague
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Simmering tensions in the Alabama Senate boiled over Thursday when a Republican lawmaker punched a Democratic colleague in the head before they were pulled apart.
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LaFAYETTE, Ala. -- A congressional candidate&#39;s house burned down early Friday, and he broke his knee jumping from the second floor.
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The House ethics committee yesterday chastised the Democratic lawmaker who filed a complaint this year against Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.
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The Senate majority leader took aim yesterday at the top U.S. commander in Iraq, who until now has received little criticism from Capitol Hill over his statements or performance.
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An opposition lawmaker was gunned down by a police officer in the second fatal shooting of an opposition legislator this week amid ethnic fighting.
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A Democratic congresswoman cited the case of an Iraqi Associated Press photographer imprisoned by the U.S. military during debate Wednesday on a new prisoner treatment bill that she considers too harsh.
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A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to rough up someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.
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When senators from opposing parties call each other "friend" and pat each other as they talk, there's a fighting chance they're angling to wring each other's neck.
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Egypt criticized the U.S. Sunday after four Congress members met with a lawmaker from the banned Muslim Brotherhood, less than two months after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met the same politician.
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A top lawmaker assailed the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program today, following a staff investigation of the $10 billion homeland security project.
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A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to threaten someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.
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Harare - A leading white Zimbabwean lawmaker on Thursday apologised to parliament for shoving a government minister during a parliamentary debate in May, as the house prepared to vote on whether or not to impose a prison sentence on him.
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The Senate's top Democrat, facing a mini-storm of Republican attacks over his reported criticism of military leaders, said on Thursday he had high regard for the U.S. commander in Iraq but wished Gen. David Petraeus would be "more candid" about the difficulties there.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 -- Legislators were outraged, insults were hurled. Opponents dragged out old ethnic divisions and warned of a dark collusion.
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A Louisiana senator publicly apologises for "a serious sin" after his name is linked to an alleged Washington prostitution ring.
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Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.
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NEW YORK - Police arrested state Sen. Kevin Parker on Thursday after he allegedly punched a traffic agent who was writing him a ticket.  The Brooklyn Democrat was charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, police said. He was being held at the 67th Precinct stationhouse.