Senate probe needed: Faulkner
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A SENATE inquiry was needed into claims that the Prime Minister misled the Australian public over the children overboard affair, Labor Senate Leader John Faulkner said.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she wants some answers from U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, a fellow Republican, who is under federal investigation.
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Democrats from New York and New Jersey asked on Wednesday for an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Whitman for breathing problems suffered by thousands after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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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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Panel wants to hear from two investigators; others are due to say if they'll appear at a hearing next week.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday he is widening a probe of the student-loan industry to target underwriting standards, prompting lawmakers at a U.S. Senate committee hearing to raise questions about possible discriminatory red-lining.
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State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told a subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday that he expects more criminal pleas in connection with his investigation into price collusion and conflicts of interest in the insurance
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Investigators said Tuesday that they were looking into whether ice on the wings or a mechanical problem contributed to the fiery crash of an executive
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Parsing the senator's position on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial proposal.
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A Louisiana legislator said Wednesday he is being investigated by the FBI and claimed it may be because he wouldn't give agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William Jefferson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Saturday he has to do more to get Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in line with other Republicans and the White House on how terrorist suspects should be prosecuted.
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A leading U.S. Senate Republican  this week demanded internal documents from Merck & Co. Inc.  MRK.N that could answer questions about the company's  interaction with U.S. regulators over its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The head of the Senate Finance Committee called on the US Department of Health and Human Services to launch a probe of allegations that the US Food and Drug Administration went out of its way to discredit a whistleblower.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday called for an investigation into the electronic touch-screen voting machines used in a disputed congressional race in Florida.
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Makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx and the FDA are the subject of Senate scrutiny today...and an Iowa Senator is asking the tough questions.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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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;