Legislator Takes Stand For Military
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Congress&#39;s chief opponent of legislation to revamp the intelligence community says he remains unmoved, leaving the White House scrambling this weekend for a solution to the impasse that
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The Washington Post has been following four members of Congress as they grapple with what to do about the Iraq war in the coming months. Previous installments have featured Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) , Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) .
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Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election bid is getting some outside help from a group grateful for the lawmaker's support for the Iraq war.
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A look at what lawmakers are saying about the Iraq war:
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When a fellow Tennessee National Guardsman raised a pointed question to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week, Iraq war veteran Brandon Sandrell was proud.
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Supporters of a Marine who could be discharged early because he wore his uniform during an anti-war protest turned out at a hearing for him Monday.
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By SAM HANANEL  WASHINGTON - On a recent weeknight, Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran spoke to nearly 10,000 of his constituents at once - from the comfort of his Capitol Hill office.
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Lawmakers vowed quick action and called for an independent commission to examine poor conditions for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Congressman Rangel backs conscription, but he is finding few takers on Capitol Hill.
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âFoot-in-mouthâ senator has found a new strategy to stay on message.
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Some opponents of the Iraq war are taking their protests straight to Congress &#151; staging "occupations" in lawmakers' offices on Capitol Hill and in their home communities.
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Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) signed off yesterday on legislation to protect transgender individuals from discrimination, over the objections of religious and community groups that say the measure would give male cross-dressers access to women's restrooms and locker rooms.
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A British lawmaker is gathering support for his call to ban the towering bearskin hats worn for almost 200 years by the red-coated soldiers who guard the country&#039;s royal palaces.
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The top Democrat in the US House of Representatives said she favors measures to support US military forces that would indirectly choke war funding, media reported.
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By REX SPRINGSTON  When W. Shelton Miles dropped a bomb on the state Senate subcommittee, you could almost see the blood drain from one lawmaker's face. "This is extraordinarily unusual," said Sen. John Watkins, R- Powhatan. "It is extraordinary," Miles replied.
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The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken a...
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A Minnesota state legislator who  advocates a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq was favored to become the  first Muslim in Congress, a day after he won his Democratic  primary race.