Pelosi Still Wants More Miles Per Gallon
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As the price of benchmark West Texas crude oil topped $70 a barrel for the first time in 10 months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) yesterday affirmed her support for the tougher fuel-economy standards recently passed by the Senate.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for stricter oversight of ethical standards in government Wednesday, a week after an Associated Press report that a Bush administration official bought a $980,000 vacation home with an oil company lobbyist.
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WASHINGTON - US Rep. Joe Barton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Chiron Corporation
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Washington is sticking to goals for   curbing greenhouse gases under a yardstick shunned by most of   its allies as too easy.
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Blog: The House speaker, fresh off a visit to Greenland and Europe, says she hopes Congress will enact new restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions by year's end.
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Working the phones and unleashing her top aides, Pelosi is trying to turn the Murtha-Hoyer battle into a powerful statement of her authority -- and what the Democrats stand for
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Citing newly disclosed State Department documents, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) called yesterday for further congressional hearings on Halliburton Co.'s contracts in Kuwait and Iraq.
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The House plans to forge ahead on energy legislation even as consensus eludes the Democratic leadership.
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Senators reached agreement yesterday on a proposal to increase automobile fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon, the first significant boost demanded of automakers in nearly 20 years.
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The heads of the domestic auto industry are pressing congressional leaders to revisit a plan to increase fuel efficiency standards that automakers say could hurt their industry.
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Hybrid car owners anxious to cruise California's car pool lanes are in for a January disappointment. Their reward for getting 45 miles per gallon is caught up in Washington politics.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice keeps trying, but she can't put those questions about presidential ambitions to rest.
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The cars, SUVS and pickups people will buy in the years ahead are likely to use less fuel, and many will rely on ethanol or household electricity instead of gasoline. The energy legislation pushed through the Senate this week provides a roadmap to the future, demanding higher automobile fuel economy, mandating huge increases in ethanol as a motor fuel and supporting more research into building "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles.
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House Democrats will keep fighting to expand the state-run Children's Health Insurance Program even if they fail Thursday to override President Bush's veto, the speaker of the House said.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received some rare help yesterday from the White House against a barrage of Republican criticism over how she intends to get home.
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The Christian Science Monitor - When she became House speaker in January, Democrat Nancy Pelosi pledged to put forth &quot;energy independence&quot; legislation no later than the Fourth of July. The idea was to cut American dependence on foreign oil while reducing the harmful climate-change effects scientists say result from burning fossil fuels.
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Amid rumblings from conservatives that she is seeking special treatment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) will receive use of an Air Force jet larger than the one used by her predecessor, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, so she can fly nonstop to her home in San Francisco.