How 3 G.O.P. Veterans Stalled Bush Detainee Bill
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Senator John W. Warner of Virginia dealt a setback to the White HouseÂs proposal to bring terrorism suspects to trial.
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White House loyalists struggled on Wednesday to save President Bush's wartime legislative plans from collapsing under Republican squabbles. In cliffhanger votes, a House committee rejected, then endorsed Bush's proposal to continue tough interrogations of suspected terrorists.
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Rep. Duncan Hunter says his son, a Marine artillery officer who has served in Iraq, asked him for two favors. One was to fix his Ford Bronco. The other was to stand firm in opposing an intelligence bill that would strip authority from the Pentagon.
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CLEVELAND, July 10 -- President Bush pushed back Tuesday against demands from Republican lawmakers to outline a new war strategy, urging them to hold their fire until Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, delivers a progress report in September.
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About 30 Oregon veterans who support Democrat John Kerry for president were rebuffed Tuesday when they showed up at a Republican rally in hopes of delivering a letter to first lady Laura Bush criticizing the war in Iraq.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s administration Wednesday beat off the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit numbers of troops ready for deployment.
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Republicans in the US Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic measure which would have required President George W. Bush to pull most combat troops out of Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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Antiwar groups waged a last-ditch effort yesterday to block an Iraq spending bill after Democrats, conceding that they did not have enough votes to override a threatened veto from President Bush, dropped deadlines for troop withdrawals from the legislation.
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Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb said Sunday that President Bush's terror-detainee legislation would weaken the Geneva Conventions and potentially subject captured U.S. soldiers to torture.
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A pair of Democratic efforts to tie passage of a far-reaching budget plan with an end to the war in Iraq failed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. One plan had troops coming home within nine months and the other called for a year. The 1,482-page bill does have requests for about 9,000 pet projects that lawmakers want.
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The Bush administration and three prominent Republican senators opposing its detainee proposal gave signs of seeking compromise today.
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The authors of a comprehensive immigration bill said today that they would try to resuscitate the measure, which stalled Thursday.
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A bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings is bogged down by objections over funding and who should be barred from buying a firearm.
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On a cliffhanger vote, Senate   Republicans on Thursday beat a key challenge to a bill setting   rules for interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects   shortly after President George W. Bush went to Capitol Hill   urging them to deliver the bill.
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The U.S. Congress on Friday moved to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country's oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Democrats and Republicans are urging President Bush to press holdout GOP lawmakers to get compromise legislation overhauling US intelligence agencies passed this year.
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A move to give terrorism suspects the right to challenge their detentions in federal court fell short in the Senate today, even though it had majority support.