Legislators slam debt collector
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Three legislators are asking Attorney General Martha Coakley to take action against an Ohio debt collector who is accused of harassing and threatening Massachusetts residents.
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MPs and the main City watchdog are at odds over the plight of millions of policyholders &quot;trapped&quot; in closed with-profits funds.
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Recent scandals and the election of Gov. Eliot Spitzer have taken a toll on the party scene among state legislators.
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House Democrats led a revolt Thursday against just-implemented interpretations that critics argue could block millions of workers from overtime pay.
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The Legislature yesterday passed a bill that its sponsors said would attack auto insurance fraud at the street level and in the offices of chiropractors and physical therapists.
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The Bush administration's top environmental regulator faced off Thursday against Democratic senators who took turns denouncing him for blocking tailpipe emission cuts in California and more than a dozen other states.
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By Amelia Nielson-Stowell Deseret Morning News  The Legislature is meddling more and more in local government -- but who's asking for it?  Lawmakers have pushed dozens of bills this session that change the way cities and counties operate.
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When an 80-year-old white Virginia legislator recently came out against a resolution apologizing for slavery because blacks, he said, should "get over it," he ignited a storm of protests from black leaders.
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Republicans in Congress want to significantly tighten regulations to keep people who declare bankruptcy from ducking debts they should be able to settle, but Democrats and physicians' groups argue the move would penalize Americans who go broke because of huge medical bills they can't pay.
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Two leading Republican legislators yesterday attacked the Bush administration&#39;s approach to rebuilding Iraq, in one of the strongest indictments
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Hit with tough criticism that he had misled Congress, David M. Walker , the head of the Government Accountability Office, yesterday said he regretted that he had not done a better job of explaining and keeping lawmakers up to speed on the agency's new pay system.
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KIEV -- Lawmakers fought over and failed to pass legal reforms aimed at ensuring a fair rematch of Ukraine's fraudulent presidential runoff, accusing each other yesterday of acting in bad faith as several thousand orange-clad protesters besieged parliament and chanted, &quot;Parasites! Parasites!&quot;
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_ Three New York lawmakers on Thursday joined the growing chorus of Republicans criticizing the United Nations over the oil-for-food scandal, urging Congress to withhold dues payments to the world body.
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One of their legislators was suspended for fraud. Another outraged women by saying only brainless businessmen would hire "a lady of child-bearing age."
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While House members are still angry about an FBI search of a congressman&#039;s office, the Senate&#039;s leader says the controversy has been &quot;pretty much put to bed.&quot;
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A Texas congressman who brought a successful ethics complaint against House Majority Leader Tom Delay was himself rebuked by the ethics panel for violating the rules in the way he brought the complaint.
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A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office Â at the risk of alienating their constituents.