Democrats making gains on new war resolution
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WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-led Senate is moving closer to rewriting the measure that paved the way for President Bush to invade Iraq nearly four years ago, two top Democratic lawmakers said yesterday.
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Top U.S. Democrats vowed on Sunday to raise pressure on President George W. Bush to shift strategy in Iraq by trying to revise the 2002 congressional resolution that authorized him to wage war.
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The House on Wednesday passed a new defense policy bill that includes a pay raise for troops.
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Democrats hope to win over more Republicans with revisions that would tighten eligibility for the State Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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For Democrats, war looms as the nation's most pressing problem. Republicans cite the economy, terrorism, the war and immigration, the Associated Press-Ipsos poll found.
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The Democrats' internecine squabbling over the war is a family argument about tactics, not a showdown over principle. The left should remember that.
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Democrats vowed yesterday to continue their uphill struggle to force President Bush to change course in Iraq, allowing legislative action on the war to spill into next week as negotiations continue on measures they hope could attract bipartisan support.
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House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq while requiring President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.
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The House passes a resolution opposing Bush on the war, but the Democrats coax only 17 GOP members to join them. Next, however, could come a measure with teeth
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Both parties appeared to be maneuvering to gain political advantage from a relatively peaceful vote in Iraq.
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Democrats enter the fall campaign  with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the  U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them  positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make  significant gains in the Senate.
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Two months after Democrats took control of Congress, there isn't much to show for the switch in power &#151; despite feverish efforts to weigh in on meaty matters, such as the war in Iraq.
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Leaders on both sides of a contested election move toward  a new deal, but the impact of weeks of bloodshed may be more difficult to resolve
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The Democratic contest is more likely to be decisive.
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The Democratic Party's most powerful  weapon is heading back into battle.
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Although given little public credit at the time, or since, many of the 126 House Democrats who spoke out and voted against the October 2002 resolution that gave President Bush authority to wage war against Iraq have turned out to be correct in their warnings about the problems a war would create.
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Democrats on Saturday promised to help "forge a new direction" in the Iraq war when they take control of the U.S. Congress in January from President George W. Bush's Republicans.