Senate Panel Faults Missile Defense Plan
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Democrats in Congress are building a legislative roadblock to the Bush administration's plan to place elements of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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A Senate committee unanimously approved President George W. Bush's choice for defense secretary on Tuesday after he told the panel the United States was not winning in Iraq and needed a new approach to end the carnage and avert a possible region-wide war.
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Polish Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper has said that he opposed plans for Poland to house missiles for a defence shield that Washington wants to set up in central Europe.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected on Monday another prominent senator's call for a military strike against Iran, saying a U.S. attack would destabilize the Middle East.
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The Pentagon issued sharp criticism Friday of a new congressionally commissioned report on the National Guard and reserves, calling "fundamentally flawed" its assertion that the U.S. military is not adequately prepared to respond to nuclear, biological and chemical attacks on the United States.
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WASHINGTON - After the Pentagon&#39;s national missile defense system failed a key test this week, the Bush administration has dropped its plans to activate the system by the end of the year.
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Republicans John Warner and Richard Lugar, heads of two Senate panels, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shouldn&#39;t be ousted because that would be too disruptive while US troops
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A bipartisan resolution repudiating President George W. Bush's decision to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a serious setback to critics of the war.
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A group of Senate Democrats opposing  the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as U.S. secretary of state  on Tuesday accused her of deceiving Congress and called her an  architect of blunders in the Iraq war.
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The Bush administration is facing the prospect of a sharp cut by the Democratic-contolled Congress in its request for $310 million to begin development of a missile defense program designed to defend against potential "rogue state" attacks on Europe and the United States.
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WASHINGTON - A sweeping proposal from the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to effectively dismantle the CIA drew fire Monday from congressional Democrats and mixed reviews from former intelligence officers.
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An important test of the United States' fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday, the Pentagon said.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. Pat Roberts&#39; sweeping proposal for overhauling the US intelligence system was met with harsh criticism yesterday from the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee, who faulted
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Several Republican senators are stepping up their opposition to the Bush administration's plan to authorize military trials for suspected terrorists, with one calling a key part of the bill "ill-advised." The issue in contention involves a White House-backed bid to redefine the U.S. interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. Some GOP senators say that would be a mistake.
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The Missile Defense Agency announced today it was unable to complete a planned flight test after the interceptor missile experienced an anomaly shortly before it was to be launched from the Ronald Reagan Test Site, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the
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North Korea&#039;s test-firing of  missiles was an act of a &quot;paper tiger&quot; that has miscalculated  the world&#039;s response and may result in sanctions, the senior  Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on  Wednesday.