House Blocks Court on Pledge Case Rulings
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The House, in an emotionally and politically charged debate six weeks before the election, voted Thursday to protect the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance from further court challenges.
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The House on Wednesday urged the federal government to contest a court decision that would allow colleges to limit the activities of military recruiters on their campuses because of the military's ban on openly gay people.
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In a sharp rebuke of a new administration policy, the House moved Thursday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to  pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President  Bush to ban gay marriage.
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The Supreme Court has refused to intervene on behalf of a handful of religious extremists whose feelings were hurt by gay marriage in Massachusetts... The US Supreme Court has rejected without comment an appeal
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WASHINGTON - The House passed a bill Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.    In a politically and emotionally charged debate, Democrats said majority Republicans in the chamber were debasing the Constitution in order to force a vote that could hurt Democrats in the election...
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Bill would strip federal courts of right to hear cases about the wording, including &#39;under God.&#39;. WASHINGTON -- The US House voted Thursday to strip the Supreme Court and lower federal courts of their power
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The White House yesterday sought to overrule a federal court's decision limiting the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises, exempting the service from complying with two major environmental laws.
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The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling preventing the industry from listing taxes and other government fees as separate line items on consumersâ bills.
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The House on Thursday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage but gave Republican leaders a consolation prize by putting lawmakers on record on an
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A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked an order that the Internal Revenue Service be given the names of people who acquired materials from a Web site on how to defeat the tax laws.
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Two U.S. Supreme Court members  separately rejected on Wednesday an emergency request from a  California atheist who sought to stop the recital of prayers at  President Bush's inauguration.
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Republican leaders in the House and Senate were blocked Tuesday by a senior GOP senator in their efforts to add immigration, handgun and Internet gambling measures to a defense bill.
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House Democratic lawmakers on  Wednesday ramped up the pressure on the Justice Department to  fight a federal court ruling that could allow energy companies  to avoid paying the government billions of dollars in oil and  natural gas royalties.
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The House, citing the nation's religious origins, voted Wednesday to protect the Pledge of Allegiance from federal judges who might try to stop schoolchildren and others from reciting it because of the phrase "under God."
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The House defeated a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage yesterday in a vote on an election-year wedge issue that had already failed to pass the Senate.
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The 227-186 roll call Thursday by which the House defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Supporters of the amendment fell 49 votes short of the 276 votes they need to advance the bill.