Congress Works on 9/11 Panel Legislation
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WASHINGTON - Racing the clock, Senate leaders are applying finishing touches to bipartisan legislation addressing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations just as House GOP leaders prepare to debate their version, which Democrats call partisan and weak...
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Breaking a monthslong deadlock, key congressional negotiators reported agreement Saturday on legislation to overhaul the nation's intelligence agencies along lines recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.
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Congress will &quot;risk lives&quot; if it fails to pass an intelligence-reform measure before it adjourns in December, leaders of the September 11 commission said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - The meeting had all the hallmarks of an ordinary congressional hearing. There was Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., discussing the problems faced by ordinary citizens mistakenly placed on terrorist watch lists. Then, to the ...
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WASHINGTON - House GOP leaders braced Thursday for a late-session showdown with the Senate over conflicting versions of legislation written in response to the terror-fighting recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission...
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The Supreme Court&#039;s rebuff of the Bush administration&#039;s Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees.
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President Bush and his Senate allies will kill a Sept. 11 antiterror bill if Congress sends it to the White House with a provision to let airport screeners unionize
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President Bush will make a final appeal to Congress to find a way to pass legislation before the end of the year that would make the Sept. 11 commission's terror-fighting recommendations law, White House officials said Friday.
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President Bush vowed Sunday to work with Congress to revive a bill to enact major recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, as Republican lawmakers struggled to explain why
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WASHINGTON -- Relatives of Sept. 11 victims yesterday urged quick congressional approval of a national intelligence director and other reforms recommended by the federal commission that investigated the 2001 attacks.
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A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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A bipartisan group of Senators is pushing legislation that would force the CIA to release an inspector general's report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
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THE THREAT: More than three years after Sept. 11, Congress hasn't decided how it would respond to a disaster that kills or incapacitates many members.
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The nation&#39;s intelligence infrastructure is awaiting post-9/11 reform, something congressional leaders still hope to finalize this fall.
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Lawmakers pushed to finish work Friday on legislation focused on national defense, Iraq, terrorism and illegal immigration as Republicans pinned their hopes for keeping control of Congress on making national security the theme of the Nov. 7 election.
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WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders on Friday easily pushed through sweeping new law enforcement powers as part of a Sept. 11 anti-terrorism package, but the House now must negotiate a truce with the Senate on those measures to get President Bush's signature before the elections...
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Negotiators planned to work until Congress' final moments to get a breakthrough on legislation implementing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations to protect the nation from terrorism.