House Democrats Vow to Change Breaks Given Oil Industry
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House Democrats vowed to pursue a broad overhaul of tax breaks and other subsidies to oil companies in January.
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Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races.
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The leading House Democrat on education issues proposed revisions yesterday to the No Child Left Behind law that would ease the penalties for public schools that barely miss academic testing targets but tighten another rule that has helped the District and Virginia.
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Democrats plan to press for a minimum wage increase and "tough, smart" national security in their final push to wrest power from the Republicans in the November elections.
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House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said Thursday.
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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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House Republicans say they are willing to stop funding Â at least temporarily Â pet projects for their home districts if Democrats are willing to go along.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  next week could weigh legislation that extends tax incentives  to use renewable energy sources like wind and solar and slaps  new taxes on big energy companies, Democratic aides said on  Friday.
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Democratic leaders worry they may not have the 60 votes to replace $146B plan passed by House.
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Liberal activists, disgruntled that the Democratic Party takeover of Congress has not expedited an end to the Iraq war, have threatened to sponsor 2008 primary challenges to House Democrats who they believe haven't been tough enough in standing up to President Bush.
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Their numbers and power diminished, congressional Democrats hope their vigorous response to President Bush's State of the Union address will help fuel a turnabout from the election miseries of November.
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With U.S. gasoline prices near record levels, the Senate is to take up an energy bill today that Democratic leaders hope will be a rallying point for voters concerned about national security and climate change as well as pump prices.
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The Christian Science Monitor - When she became House speaker in January, Democrat Nancy Pelosi pledged to put forth &quot;energy independence&quot; legislation no later than the Fourth of July. The idea was to cut American dependence on foreign oil while reducing the harmful climate-change effects scientists say result from burning fossil fuels.
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Two congressional committees are scheduled this week to consider a bill giving the District its first full vote in the House, and senior Democrats hope to pass it in the House and send it to the Senate this month.
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House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi's plan to repeal tax breaks for oil companies in the first 100 hours of the new Congress could face roadblocks in the Senate.
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Senate Republicans block a $32 billion in tax breaks for renewable energy that would have been financed mostly by new taxes on major oil companies. The GOP argues an oil-company tax increase would reduce production and raise gas prices.
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The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to expand offshore oil drilling and preserve a variety of popular tax breaks for families and businesses, but the wide-ranging last-minute package faced serious opposition in the Senate from lawmakers angry about trade provisions and its $50 billion cost.