In Connecticut House Race, Focus Shifts to Security
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The shift is a departure for Representative Nancy L. Johnson, a moderate Republican, who usually focuses her campaigns on domestic issues.
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House leaders are holding up action on a defense policy bill unless unrelated measures on immigration and court security are attached.
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No congressional race has had more twists and turns this year Ã¢ÂÂ perhaps in many years Ã¢ÂÂ than the contest in TexasÃ¢ÂÂ 22nd District, a suburban Houston constituency and the longtime bailiwick of Republican Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader who resigned his seat in June.
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President George W. Bush said Friday the presidential race boils down to who can keep American homes safer from terrorists and contended Democrat John Kerry was not up to the task.
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A few candidates for governor are venturing beyond domestic issues like schools and taxes to take stances on the war in Iraq and terrorism, with a California Democrat vowing he'll try to withdraw his state's Guard troops from Iraq and an Arizona Republican blasting a Sept. 11 memorial for being unpatriotic.
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With the Connecticut Senator vowing to run as an independent, Republicans would be licking their chops -- if only they had more confidence in their candidate
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Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races.
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Police have issued a description of the suspect in a weekend burglary at Democratic presidential candidate Christopher Dodd's Senate office in Hartford.
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Texas Democrats may have run, but they cannot hide from a White House-backed redistricting aimed at thinning their numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Nov. 2 elections.
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Congress will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a pre-election agenda focusing on national security-related issues.
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Under pressure from House Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be backing away from a plan to place Rep. William J. Jefferson on the Homeland Security Committee.
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One of the house parties sponsored by the Republican candidate uses the Sept. 11 date for fund-raising.
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The biggest overhaul of the U.S. intelligence network in a half century neared a House vote Tuesday, part of a broad measure that also aimed to intensify aviation and border security in response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
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Police patrol the Capitol armed with rifles and wearing biological, chemical and radioactive attack gear. One senator was so concerned about the terrorist threat that he temporarily shut down his office during the recent pre-election recess. But more than three years after Sept. 11, Congress has yet to decide how it would respond to a catastrophic event that kills or incapacitates many or most of its members.
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Better communication systems, improved rail security and more rigorous oversight are high on the list of homeland security issues Democrats plan to examine when they assume control of Congress in January.
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WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders, unveiling their proposal to revamp the government&#39;s intelligence operations, placed much more emphasis Friday on beefing up border control and law-enforcement powers than has the Senate.
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Democrats envisioned picking up as many as four House seats, possibly five. But that goal now seems increasingly remote.