Democrats Delay a Vote on Immunity for Wiretaps
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In a setback for the White House, the Senate will not vote this month on whether to give legal protection to the phone carriers that helped with the N.S.A. eavesdropping program.
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Delaying the January vote would raise new dangers. So will going ahead
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U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday accused Democrats of trying to rush a vote on immigration reform, casting doubt on the fate of the White House-backed bill that would tighten border security and legalize millions of illegal immigrants.
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Congressional Democrats and some Republicans are trying to change part of the USA Patriot Act that allows the Bush administration to fire and replace federal prosecutors indefinitely without Senate confirmation.
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Democrats say Republicans are trying to suppress the votes of minorities, the poor and the elderly by requiring documentation at the polls.
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US lawmakers said on Friday it was increasingly unlikely they could deliver a measure to overhaul US spy agencies to President Bush by the Nov. 2 elections, a delay some supporters said could imperil the post Sept.
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Democratic leaders are still pushing for more time to work out a compromise on legal immunity for telephone companies, but the president says he won't accept more delays.
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With a deadline looming, President Bush and congressional Democrats are locked in a standoff over the government's authority to spy on foreign phone calls and e-mails that pass through the United States.
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A Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee is cautioning Republicans against blocking a vote Monday on a resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq
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President Bush and GOP lawmakers will have to settle for less than a full loaf of the anti-terror measures they had hoped to enact before the Nov. 7 elections, putting off legislation that would endorse the president's wiretapping program.
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Democrats expressed outrage today that Republican leaders had waited nearly a year to tell them about e-mails between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page.
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Broad spying powers temporarily approved by Congress in August appear likely to lapse this week after the White House and House Democrats produced no clear resolution.
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Republicans warn that the law's expiration over the weekend diminishes the ability to conduct terrorist surveillance, but the Democrats call those statements misleading.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Friday the release of an internal CIA investigation into pre-Sept. 11 failures may be more than six weeks away &#151; a delay she finds baffling.
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President Bush is going all the way to get amnesty for the phone companies who assisted the government in what appear to be illegal wiretaps of American citizens.  The Senate, even though it's controlled by Democrats, went with this nonsense (roll call). The House acted as a firewall, and voted for FISA renewal without amnesty. Good for them. Among the Presidential candidates, Obama voted against amnesty (thanks), McCain voted for, as did all other Republicans, and Clinton didn't vote, even though she was in DC and could have.
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As attacks continue, some officials call for poll delay
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Democrats are accusing the Justice Department of playing politics by trying to delay an inquiry into whether President Bush's New England campaign chief played a role in illegal phone-jamming on Election Day 2002.