Senate Approves Bill On Victims&#39; Rights
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The Senate gave final approval yesterday to long-stalled legislation to expand access to DNA testing for rape victims and prison inmates, as Congress struggled to finish pre-election
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SECURITY REFORM: The bill, which adopts many of the findings of the Sept. 11 commission, was also expected to pass the Senate, despite a few remaining conflicts.
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The Senate, after a weekend of behind-the-scenes negotiations, struck a deal to allow passage of a sweeping corporate tax bill and spending measures for disaster relief and homeland security.
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Phone companies that took part in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program would receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits under a bill passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday by the Democratic-led Senate.
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The Senate yesterday approved a sweeping measure that would expand the government's clandestine surveillance powers, delivering a key victory to the White House by approving immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with intelligence agencies in domestic spying after...
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The Senate passed legislation yesterday that would make Federal Housing Administration loans available to subprime borrowers facing foreclosure.
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New Jersey will become the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty under a measure lawmakers approved Thursday and the governor intends to sign within days
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Afghanistan's lower house of parliament on Saturday voted into law a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter century of fighting, but also recognizing the rights of victims to seek justice.
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The US House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday designed to tighten gun ownership, nearly two months after a disturbed student went on the deadliest ever US school shooting rampage.
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The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill authorizing $23 billion in water resource projects, including $3.5 billion in work for hurricane-ravaged Louisiana.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday gave   final approval to a bill for tough interrogation and   prosecution of terrorism suspects, as President George W. Bush   prevailed after a series of setbacks on his detainee policies.
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After more than eight months in limbo, a bill that would criminalize the practice of lying to obtain the telephone records of private citizens passed the Senate late Friday.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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The House passed a bill Wednesday to establish a new division of federal prosecutors and FBI agents focused strictly on cracking unsolved murders from the civil rights era.
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Two U.S. senators said on Thursday they would introduce legislation that would potentially protect users of popular social networking sites like News Corp's MySpace from registered sex offenders.
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New York&#39;s attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, and Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.
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Senate Democrats are backing a bill that would grant new rights to terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including access to a lawyer regardless of whether the prisoners are put on trial.