Senator seeks to speed Yucca shipments
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A Senate committee chairman said Wednesday he wants to start shipping nuclear waste to Nevada's Yucca Mountain in 2010, seven years ahead of the Bush administration's schedule.
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Republican gains in the Senate could give President Bush his best chance yet to achieve his No. 1 energy priority &#151; opening an oil-rich but environmentally sensitive Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling.
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With U.S. gasoline prices near record levels, the Senate is to take up an energy bill today that Democratic leaders hope will be a rallying point for voters concerned about national security and climate change as well as pump prices.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for tougher rules to stop American companies from buying illegally logged timber plundered from fragile forests around the world.
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A breakthrough on climate change deadlock is being sought in a meeting at the US senate.
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A U.S. senator on Thursday  introduced legislation that would allow regulators to follow  through on a new rule that says expletives uttered on broadcast  television are a violation of TV decency standards.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - A state Senate leader says he has the scoop on the poop in the state Capitol...
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Illinois senator looks to build momentum and extending winning streak with victories over Sen. Clinton.
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By SAM HANANEL  WASHINGTON - On a recent weeknight, Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran spoke to nearly 10,000 of his constituents at once - from the comfort of his Capitol Hill office.
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Senators on Tuesday pressed Health and Human Services nominee Mike Leavitt for a permanent commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, which has been without one for nearly a year amid rising concerns about the safety of drugs on the market.
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Senators called on Friday for   passage of long-delayed port security legislation that includes   steps to intercept nuclear material, as the fifth anniversary   of the September 11 attacks nears.
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Two senators made an aggressive last-ditch push today for a legislative proposal that would force a change in President Bushâs war strategy.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 22--U.S. Senate committee members were sympathetic Thursday to the plight of Lower Arkansas Valley communities trying to get federal support for a drinking water conduit, Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., said.
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called yesterday for the creation of a federal import czar, blaming problems with the safety and quality of Chinese imports on unexacting inspections and a bureaucratic morass.
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Gov. Sarah Palin wants to deliver what many others have sought without success: a pipeline to transport natural gas from the stateâs North Slope.
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By Karl Terry, The Portales News-Tribune, N.M.  Feb. 1--A bill protecting wildland firefighters from criminal prosecution has been introduced in the New Mexico Legislature by Rep. Keith Gardner R-Roswell.
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WASHINGTON - A senator suggested Tuesday that money federal health officials have sought to upgrade flu vaccine production is on the way - an effort to avoid another year like this one, when the United States lost nearly half its supply of vaccine.