Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill
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House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill.
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The Senate blocked a bid by anti-abortion forces Thursday to cut off money for clinics that provide family planning and other health services in addition to abortions.
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Confidants like grandparents or ministers who help pregnant teens should be protected from prosecution under a bill headed for Senate passage that would punish anyone who takes girls across state lines to end their pregnancies, Democrats said Tuesday.
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A bipartisan accord in the House calls for a $150 billion spending plan, including significant tax rebates. But senators may want add-ons.
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WASHINGTON The White House and lawmakers are getting close to agreement on a 388 (b) billion-dollar spending measure that could be ready for votes today.
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Weeks after President George W. Bush's reelection, the battle over US abortion rights has been reignited, after Congress approved a  measure freeing hospitals from statewide provisions to offer abortion services.
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A Republican senator who has questioned whether an abortion opponent could win approval to the U.S. Supreme Court must agree to back President Bush's nominees if he is to head the committee acting on those nominations, the Senate's Republican leader said.
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By ANDREW TAYLOR  WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats pressed for budget increases for party priorities such as health, special education and medical research Tuesday as an appropriations panel approved a $152 billion spending bill.
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Officials of EMILYÃ¢ÂÂs List Ã¢ÂÂ the influential organization that advises and helps fund Democratic women candidates who support abortion rights Ã¢ÂÂ held a conference call with reporters Wednesday to promote their effort to convince women voters to back the groupsÃ¢ÂÂ preferred candidates. Among those were five contenders the group views as among the yearÃ¢ÂÂs top Democratic prospects to take over House seats currently held by Republicans.
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Aiming to circumvent President Bush's limits on the use of stem cells from human embryos, members of Congress on Wednesday introduced bills to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled a revised bill to expand health insurance for needy children, hopeful they will muster enough support to override another possible veto by President George W. Bush.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  ignored a White House veto threat and voted on Thursday to  allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning  groups outside the United States even though they engage in  abortion activities.
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The next Senate will have a bigger, more conservative Republican majority and several new opponents of abortion.
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Ministers claim issues raised in Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill are matters of conscience
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Family planning groups outside of the United States would be allowed to receive contraceptives from the U.S. government under a Democratic plan moving through the U.S. House of Representatives that could prompt a veto by President George W. Bush.
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The bill will be the basis for House efforts to reshape the Childrenâs Health Insurance Program, which expires Sept. 30, and will be a building block of Senator Hillary Rodham Clintonâs presidential campaign platform.
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The National Right to Life Committee and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) are locking horns -- not over abortion, but over whether thousands of top executive branch officials should have to disclose the names of people who lobby them.