Senate plan criticized
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WASHINGTON - Sen. Pat Roberts&#39; sweeping proposal for overhauling the US intelligence system was met with harsh criticism yesterday from the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee, who faulted
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A bill that aims to help small businesses is being criticized by some who say it allows venture capital companies to pose as small firms to tap into billions of federal research dollars.
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The Senate narrowly rejected two proposals today that would have upset the delicate compromise embodied in a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nationâs immigration laws.
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Senators on Friday criticized the Agriculture Department's planning for deadly bird flu, saying the voluntary nature of its testing program threatens the U.S. poultry industry.
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As proposed legislation adding safeguards to electronic voting languishes, criticism of the bill is mounting among legislators and experts.
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Intelligence officials and Democrats yesterday sharply criticized the proposal to radically restructure US intelligence drafted by the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, Kansas Republican.
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A leading Republican senator Sunday condemned as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them.
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A broad bipartisan immigration deal was threatened Tuesday as the Senate prepared to vote on a Republican proposal to make it harder for millions of illegal immigrants to qualify for green cards.
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The drive to pass a $136 billion corporate tax bill hit a roadblock in the Senate on Friday when lawmakers upset about tobacco regulation, new overtime rules and combat pay employed delaying tactics to keep the measure from coming up for a vote.
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Sweeping plans to reform America&#39;s intelligence network have run into trouble after key Republicans in Congress objected to the legislation.
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Lawmakers and intelligence officials on Monday criticized Sen. Pat Roberts&#39; radical plan to break up the CIA and restructure national intelligence, but
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Senate Democrats demanded Thursday that President Bush order a halt to personal attacks on the party's leader, Sen. Harry Reid, and expressed regret that they had failed to mount a stronger defense for his defeated predecessor.
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Democrat senators sharply criticise the Secretary of State nominee in a debate in Congress.
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The Bush administration yesterday raised serious objections about congressional efforts to approve a corporate tax-cut bill this week, warning that the Republican-backed
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Parsing the senator's position on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial proposal.
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But the measure is so different from a bipartisan Senate bill that many lawmakers say it may be impossible to reconcile them.
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A proposal to shift U.S.  intelligence functions from the CIA to new agencies under a  national director came under heavy fire on Monday from critics  who said it would wreak havoc on the country's spy apparatus  just as it is needed most in the war on terror.