Democrats call for ouster of health official
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Several Democratic lawmakers asked the Bush administration on Monday to replace its new family-planning chief because he has worked for a health provider that opposes the use of birth control.
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Democrats are encountering a mixture of resistance and retreat from abortion rights advocates in their own party.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced his resignation Friday, warning as he left of dangers from a global flu outbreak and a possible terror attack on the nationâs food supply.
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Outraged Democrats called for the resignation of senior Republican lawmaker Tom DeLay for a &quot;disturbing pattern of corruption&quot; following his censure by a House ethics panel.
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The third-ranking Democrat in the Senate called on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to resign, and congressional reaction to two unfolding controversies at the Justice Department grew sharper.
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Democrats are renewing calls for the declassification of a CIA report documenting the agencyâs mistakes in preventing the 2001 attacks.
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Congressional Democrats are sharpening their attacks on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with one senator proposing a resolution that would call on President Bush to sack the outspoken Pentagon chief.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is facing calls for his resignation over his handling of the war in Iraq. The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, led the calls and accused
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The Senate's top Democrat says Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson should resign, calling his leadership a threat to national security after the VA lost another computer containing veterans' personal data.
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The ruling was the first application of a restrictive new White House policy regarding public health insurance that has drawn ferocious criticism from Democrats.
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U.S. food and health regulators should set up a joint task force to study recent outbreaks of food poisoning and decide if better coordination is needed, several Democratic senators said on Tuesday.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday called on the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate alleged attempts to discredit a Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower.
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The Bush administration's new federal disaster-response plan drew harsh criticism yesterday from state and local officials only a day after it was unveiled, prompting fresh calls by House Democrats to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a stand-alone Cabinet-level agency.
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Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean called for another election in the race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris, saying the declared Republican winner should not be swore in until election questions are sorted out.
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The House Democratic leader Thursday asked for an investigation of alleged threatening remarks made to the ethics committee chairman by GOP lawmakers.
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Senior Democrats ask former president to rein in his attacks on Barack Obama
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Another day, another Cabinet resignation. The latest to announce his impending departure is Tommy Thompson, secretary of Health and Human Services.