Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill
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House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill.
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An obscure amendment attached to an appropriations bill could throw a wrench into presidential candidate John Kerry's plans to fund embryonic stem cell research. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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U.S. lawmakers struck a deal late on Friday on a &#36;388 billion package of government funding for the current fiscal year after days of battling over foreign aid, nuclear waste, milk subsidies and overtime.
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In an election-year bid to polish their credentials as fiscal conservatives in an election year, Senate Republicans on Tuesday advanced a bill designed to force cuts in the spiraling growth of federal benefit programs while also reviving the line-item veto.
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U.S. congressional leaders on Friday said they reached agreement on legislation to expand a health-care program for children in low-income families, setting up a potential showdown with President George W. Bush who has vowed to veto it.
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Missouri abortion providers will face new regulations for their clinics and new restrictions on teaching sex education classes under a bill Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law Friday.
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South Africa's parliament approved a bill broadening access to abortions by allowing nurses to perform the operation.
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A key Republican senator announced his support Wednesday for efforts by Sen. John McCain and others to block partisan interest groups from spending millions of dollars in big donations in next year's congressional elections as they did in last year's 2004 presidential race.
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The U.S. Congress was forced to pass a temporary measure keeping the government open on Wednesday after one embarrassing clause allowing lawmakers to see individual tax returns held up a crucial &#36;388 billion spending bill.
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U.S. congressional leaders on Friday  said they reached agreement on legislation to expand a  health-care program for children in low-income families,  setting up a potential showdown with President George W. Bush  who has vowed to veto it.
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International family planning groups cut off from aid because of their position on abortion could gain access to U.S.-donated contraceptives under legislation approved by a House panel Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate resolved a dispute delaying passage of a sweeping corporate tax bill and two spending bills for disaster relief and homeland security last night, clearing the way for senators to adjourn today to hit the campaign trail.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans whisked a $388 billion spending bill through Congress on Saturday, a mammoth measure that underscores the dominance of deficit politics by curbing dollars for everything from education to environmental cleanups.
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Aiming to circumvent President Bush's limits on the use of stem cells from human embryos, members of Congress on Wednesday introduced bills to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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The Senate is poised to debate legislation promoting embryonic stem cell research, a bill all but certain to draw President Bush&#039;s first veto.
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Confidants like grandparents or ministers who help pregnant teens should be protected from prosecution under a bill headed for Senate passage that would punish anyone who takes girls across state lines to end their pregnancies, Democrats said Tuesday.
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The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush a temporary spending measure to keep the federal government running through November 16, giving Democrats and Republicans time to work out budget disagreements.