Clarkson's budget, gun registry among items up for vote late Thursday
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OTTAWA (CP) - Parliament was set to vote on pair of thorny government expenses late Thursday: the scandal-plagued gun registry and the Governor General's budget.
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This is one in an occasional series of stories leading up to November&#39;s election on economic issues being put forth by President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John F. Kerry.
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The Fairfax County School Board was moving toward a vote last night on a much-debated $2.3 billion annual spending plan that several board members said was likely to preserve some programs the superintendent had proposed to cut to offset declining tax revenue.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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By Patricia Smith, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Feb. 8--In a way, North Carolina is right where it was last year after President Bush released his proposed budget for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District.
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Democrats are trying to have it both ways on the Iraq funding vote. It will be interesting to see if they can do that.
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Washington -- Sen. John Kerry outlined a $5 billion anti-crime package Monday and used the day on which the decade-old federal assault weapons ban expired to again rebuke President Bush for what the Democratic
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By Tiffany Erickson and Bob Bernick Jr. Deseret Morning News  The November referendum vote is going to be clear: Do you want vouchers? Yes or no.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jun. 18--For a couple of weeks in May, a dispute over off-highway vehicle use in Minnesota's state forests appeared to be resolved. The Legislature had just passed a bill outlining where those machines could go, and Gov.
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With its battle to kill the decade-long U.S. ban on assault weapons won, the National Rifle Association is now setting its sights on the Nov. 2 presidential and congressional elections.
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U.S. lawmakers returning from a  weeklong break on Monday will take up a long list of unfinished  -- and possibly insurmountable -- tasks that could help decide  whether voters will re-elect them in November.
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By Hugh Lessig And Kimball Payne, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 25--RICHMOND -- State lawmakers Saturday passed what they admitted was a flawed transportation spending plan. Attention now shifts to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who will propose a major overhaul.
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North Carolina legislators are to discuss a proposed package of incentives for the PC maker during a session set for Thursday.
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Â· Obama ahead for first time in New Hampshire pollsÂ· Clinton campaign team to step up attacks on rival
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The venue was vintage Fred D. Thompson: a gun shop. Perfect for the down-home, Washington-outsider candidate who campaigned across Tennessee in the 1990s with a red pickup truck, rolled-up shirt sleeves and a straight-talking attitude.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is mulling a crackdown on gun crime that in the last two weeks has seen four people shot dead, including three teenage boys.
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Critics say random post-election audits could alleviate the sort of concerns about voting accuracy that arose last week in N.H. This week it's Michigan's turn -- and once again, optical-scan machines are a major election presence. But the Secretary of State there says it's not going to be a problem.