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         <title><![CDATA[Waxman Sets Hearing to Consider Batch of Subpoenas]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is ginning up the subpoena mill, scheduling a meeting next week to consider subpoenas in four different investigations of the Bush administration.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[DeFazio Opts Out of Oregon Senate Race]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In a blow to Democrats, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) announced this afternoon that he would seek re-election in 2008 rather than challenge Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), who remains a top Democratic target.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House, Senate Negotiators Reach Deal on Minimum-Wage Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Friday afternoon on a package of tax cuts that will accompany a minimum-wage-hike bill.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Administration Chairwoman Millender-McDonald Dies]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House Administration Chairwoman Juanita Millender-McDonald (D), who had been suffering from an undisclosed form of cancer, died Sunday morning at her home in California, her office confirmed. She was 68.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Former Hill Staffer to Plead Guilty in Abramoff Affair]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A former House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staffer is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to accepting cash and other gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for using his position to help Abramoff and his clients.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Democrats Look to Hold ‘No Confidence’ Vote on Gonzales]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vowing to remain in his job and President Bush standing by him, Senate Democratic leaders are seriously considering bringing a resolution to the floor expressing no confidence in Gonzales, according to a senior leadership source.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Passes Iraq Conference Report, Senate Set to Pass Bill Thursday ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate is set to pass the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill Thursday and send it to President Bush’s veto pen, one day after the House approved the measure on a 218-208 vote Wednesday night.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[OOC Asks for Extra Money to Hire Tunnel Experts]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Office of Compliance asked House appropriators today for new funding to hire outside experts to oversee the cleanup and repair of the hazardous utility tunnels beneath the Capitol complex.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Passes Supplemental, Veto Expected Early Next Week]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate approved a doomed supplemental war spending bill today, setting the stage for an expected presidential veto early next week and yet another round of partisan fighting over the conduct of the Iraq War.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Electronic Filing Bill Stalls Again in Senate]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A bill requiring Senate candidates to file electronic fundraising reports continues to flounder, as Republicans Thursday requested additional time to consider the measure. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Renzi Denies Resignation Rumors]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Despite rumors to the contrary, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) said in a brief statement Friday morning that he intends to serve out the remainder of his current term, his third in the House.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Renzi Denies Resignation Rumors]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Despite rumors to the contrary, embattled Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) issued two statements Friday insisting that he has no intention of resigning.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[At Retreat, Senate Democrats Press Bush on Iraq]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Senate Democratic leaders today pleaded with President Bush to reconsider his decision to veto a long awaited supplemental war spending bill and said recent statements from the White House hint at a potential softening in the administration’s position on Iraq.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[U.S. Appeals Court Rules for Boehner Over McDermott]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld a decision awarding substantial damages to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) in the long-running case regarding a taped cell phone conversation disclosed to the media by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Leahy Issues Subpoena Demanding Rove E-mails]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Increasing the pressure on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a subpoena Wednesday afternoon demanding all e-mails in Gonzales’ possession by presidential adviser Karl Rove relating to the probe into the ouster of eight U.S. attorneys.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Former Justice Official Offers Praise for Fired Prosecutors]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey issued glowing praise for seven of the eight U.S. attorneys summarily fired by the Justice Department in 2006, undercutting the department’s argument that they were fired for “performance-related” reasons.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rule Change Allows Congressional Pilots to Fly Again]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House Democrats reopened portions of their ethics package late Wednesday night, carving out exemptions for Congressional pilots who were inadvertently grounded from flying their private airplanes in January. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18329-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rep. Artur Davis Fills Open Seat on House Administration]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) has been tapped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to fill the opening on the House Administration Committee left after panel Chairwoman Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.) died last month following a battle with cancer.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Justice Department Clears Way for Goodling Testimony]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department said today it will not stand in the way of the House Judiciary Committee providing immunity to Monica Goodling, a former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in exchange for her testimony.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House to Vote on Iraq Withdrawal Measure]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bowing to calls from liberal lawmakers, the House will vote Thursday on a measure to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gonzales Hearing Tense as Parties Trade Corruption Charges]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers sparred Thursday with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over whether House Appropriations ranking member Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) was inappropriately identified by Democrats as the “target” of a federal investigation once led by former U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Republicans Hit Jennings’ Call to Put Aside Her Florida Court Case]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House Republicans are criticizing a recent request by Christine Jennings (D) to put her court case on hold while federal auditors explore whether faulty voting equipment cost her the election in Florida’s 13th district in November. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Passes Second Iraq Funding Bill After Defeating Withdrawal Measure]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The House approved its second version of the $95.5 billion Iraq War emergency spending bill Thursday, as the controversial measure passed in a mostly party-line vote.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Court Approves Goodling Immunity Deal]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[At the request of the House Judiciary Committee, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday morning granted limited immunity to former Justice Department aide Monica Goodling in exchange for her Congressional testimony.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Reid Gives Immigration Talks More Time]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Closed-door bipartisan immigration talks brought the Senate to a near standstill Tuesday as Democratic and GOP leaders sought to give negotiators as much flexibility as possible to complete work on a comprehensive reform package that could garner broad support.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18520-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Blumenauer Won’t Run for Senate]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In another blow to Democrats’ hopes of ousting Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) next year, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) announced this morning that he will not be a candidate for Senate.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18521-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House, Senate Democrats Unveil Budget Deal]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Democrats reached a deal on their fiscal 2008 budget blueprint Wednesday that would allow them flexibility to extend tax cuts for the middle class and significantly expand domestic discretionary spending while still reaching a $41 billion surplus in fiscal 2012.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18522-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Colleagues Mourn Millender-McDonald at Capitol Ceremony]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[At a partly solemn, partly laugh-filled ceremony in Statuary Hall this morning, House and Senate officials gathered with friends and family of the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.) to celebrate the life of the first black woman to chair a full committee in Congress.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18555-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Negotiators Announce Immigration Deal]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators announced today that they had reached broad agreement on comprehensive immigration reform, clearing the way for floor debate to begin Monday.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18556-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Schumer, Feinstein to Introduce No-Confidence Motion on Gonzales]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) plan to introduce a no-confidence motion next week on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, citing what they view as his abysmal handling of the U.S. attorneys scandal.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18558-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ethics Panel Says Calvert-Requested Earmark Passes Test]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The House ethics committee has declared that an earmark requested by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) to build a commuter transit center near a handful of properties he owns would not be an impermissible financial conflict because any benefit to Calvert would be shared by other similarly situated landowners.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18559-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Judiciary Committee Waters Down Lobby Disclosure Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Smoothing its road to passage after a rough reception by Democrats, the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday scotched from the lobbying reform bill a two-year moratorium on lobbying by former lawmakers and staff. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18560-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House, Senate Approve Budget Resolution]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Congress adopted a $2.9 trillion budget blueprint on largely party-line votes Thursday afternoon, setting up a showdown with President Bush on spending later this year.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18561-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Murtha Accused of Threatening Michigan Rep.’s Earmarks, Violating House Rules]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) has accused Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) of breaking House rules by threatening to block all of Rogers’ spending requests because the Michigan lawmaker challenged one of Murtha’s pet projects on the floor last week.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18563-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Goodling Appears Before House Panel, Denies Misleading McNulty]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In long-awaited testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, former Justice Department aide Monica Goodling said Wednesday that ex-Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was aware of White House involvement in the plan to fire U.S. attorneys, and that he gave “incomplete” and “inaccurate” initial testimony to Congressional investigators that helped spark the probe into the firings.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18628-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Democrats to Pursue Gonzales No-Confidence Vote in June]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats announced Thursday they would pursue a vote of no-confidence against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales shortly after returning from the Memorial Day recess, once the Senate completes its final vote on the immigration package. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18671-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brady Named Mayor — of Capitol Hill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As expected, Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) was officially tapped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to head the House Administration Committee today. Brady’s appointment to the post follows the April 22 death of the panel’s former chairwoman, Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.).]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18672-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Democrats Pass Rule on War Bill; Republican Votes Will Carry Measure to Passage]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Despite anger within Democratic ranks over what some are calling “capitulation” to President Bush on the Iraq War, most voted for the rule governing debate that will allow the $120 billion supplemental funding bill to pass the House tonight and the Senate shortly thereafter.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18673-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Passes Lobby Reform and Bundling Bills by Large Margins]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Ending weeks of delay and overcoming stiff resistance from corners of their own party, House Democratic leaders on Thursday pushed through a sweeping lobbying reform package and a bundling disclosure requirement. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18674-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[War-Funding Bill Approved as Many Democrats Look to Next Act]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Congress passed a $120 billion Iraq War funding bill backed by President Bush Thursday night as Democrats splintered over what some are calling “capitulation.”]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18675-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[White House Announces Nominee for Public Printer]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The White House announced Thursday afternoon that President Bush will nominate Bob Tapella to be the new public printer.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mitchell, First Black Congressman From Maryland, Dies at 85]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former Rep. Parren Mitchell (D), the first black elected to Congress from Maryland, died at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center on Monday night at the age of 85. No cause of death was listed, at Mitchell’s request, according to the Congressman’s nephew, Michael Mitchell.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18703-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ex-Hutchinson Aide Helping to Boost Giuliani at Police Event]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[When the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Airport and Seaport Police announced Wednesday that it is bestowing an award on former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), a familiar name appeared on the news release: Chris Battle.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18709-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bush Nears Debacle in Iraq, but Democrats Can’t Be Trusted Either]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Barring a miracle, the United States faces a catastrophic defeat in Iraq, with President Bush and both Republicans and Democrats in Congress sharing in the blame.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18710-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Did Rep. Wicker Move the Stock Market Today?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) may have moved the stock market today, whether he meant to or not.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18711-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rep. Jefferson Indicted on 16 Counts]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After a two-year probe, Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was indicted on 16 counts by a federal grand jury on Monday.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18734-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sen. Thomas in ‘Serious Condition,’ Struggling With Infection]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.) is listed in serious condition at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he is battling infection and undergoing a second round of chemotherapy for blood cancer.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18736-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wyoming Sen. Thomas Dies at 74]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.) passed away Monday night at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., after a seven-month bout with leukemia. He was 74.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18762-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jefferson Steps Down From Small Business Panel]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Embattled Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) has stepped down from his only committee assignment on the Small Business panel, according to a Democratic aide. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18764-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pelosi Names ‘Ethics Pool’]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday named the 10 members of the Democrats’ “ethics pool,” the lawmakers who can be asked by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to serve on an investigative subcommittee.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Guest-Worker Amendment Puts Immigration Bill in Peril]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In what many view as a near deal-killer to the Senate's massive immigration reform bill, Senators cleared a controversial amendment late Wednesday night to sunset guest-worker provisions in the measure.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18815-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Refuses to Halt Debate on Immigration Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate’s bipartisan immigration overhaul bill failed its first major test today, when Senators voted 34-61 against bringing debate on the measure to a close, with several Democrats joining most Republicans in opposing cloture.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18816-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Immigration Bill Scuttled]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made good on his threat to yank a bipartisan immigration bill off the floor tonight after the measure, for the second time in one day, failed to even muster a bare majority of support.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/18835-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Ethics Panel Votes to Launch Jefferson Investigation]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The House ethics committee voted Thursday to launch a second investigative subcommittee into embattled Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), according to a joint statement released by Chairwoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) and ranking member Doc Hastings (R-Wash.). ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jefferson Enters Not Guilty Plea]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) pleaded not guilty Friday morning to soliciting nearly $500,000 in bribes from businessmen to promote their interests in Africa.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate to Consider Gonzales Motion on Monday]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate on Monday plans to take up a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Former Rep. Tauzin Referenced in Jefferson Indictment]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin (R) is the mystery lawmaker referenced in last week’s indictment of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wyoming GOP Will Recommend Thomas Successors on June 19]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Wyoming Republican Party has set the ground rules for selecting a replacement to the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.), with the process to culminate with voting by the state GOP central committee on June 19.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Truck Enters Restricted Zone, Triggering Barricade]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Capitol Police deployed a barricade early this morning when a truck entered a restricted zone near the Capitol. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House, Senate Judiciary Panels Subpoena Former White House Aides]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Taking the fight to President Bush’s doorstep for the first time, the Senate and House Judiciary committees on Wednesday issued subpoenas for documents and testimony from key former White House aides involved in the firing of nine federal prosecutors in 2006.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Upholds State Law on Use of Union Dues]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a Washington state campaign finance law that restricts unions from using the dues of some members for political and lobbying purposes.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Police Shut Down Major Hill Intersection]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A suspicious package discovered just before lunchtime near Union Station led to police and fire officials shutting down a major Capitol Hill intersection, and hazardous material personnel have been called in to investigate.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Area Around Union Station Reopens After False Alarm]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A D.C. Fire and Rescue official confirmed this afternoon that the suspicious package that shut down a major Capitol Hill intersection for several hours today was a backpack containing no hazardous materials, except dirty diapers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Court Refuses Jennings’ Request to Delay Florida Appeal]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As the House Administration Committee prepares for a hearing later this afternoon concerning news that the government’s review of a still-disputed Florida House election may take months longer than expected, Roll Call has learned that Democrat Christine Jennings suffered another setback last week when a Florida judge denied her request to delay her court case. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Reveal Their Financial Worth]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Four out of the top eight members of the House leadership are millionaires, according to a review of their net worth in 2006 financial disclosure forms released on Thursday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lynne Cheney Does Not Apply for Wyoming Senate Vacancy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Wyoming Republican Party Thursday evening released a final list of 31 individuals who had submitted applications to replace the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R) by the 5 p.m. Mountain Time deadline — and Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney, was not among them.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Reid, McConnell Reach Immigration Deal]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As expected, Senate Democratic and Republican leaders reached an agreement late Thursday to complete work on a comprehensive immigration reform bill before the July Fourth recess.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Earmark Truce to Delay Spending Bills]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Flake Show is back, but in limited form.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Nussle to Replace Portman at OMB]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former House Budget Chairman Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) will be named this afternoon to replace former Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, according to Capitol Hill and administration sources.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wyoming GOP Pares Down Senate List]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[And then there were 10.The Wyoming Republican Party early Tuesday afternoon narrowed down the field of candidates vying to replace the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R), with attorney Tom Sansonetti leading the pack.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Democratic Leaders Stoke DCCC]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Democratic leaders leapt out of the blocks when it came to raising and giving money to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this year.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wyoming GOP Rebuffs Simpson’s Son, Recommends Three Others for Senate Vacancy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Wyoming Republican Party this evening settled on state Sen. John Barrasso, former state Treasurer Cynthia Lummis, and ex-Justice Department attorney Tom Sansonetti as its top three choices to replace the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R). Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) now has five days to select Thomas’ successor from among them, the Casper Star Tribune reported. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Race for Norwood Seat Headed to July Runoff]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former Georgia state Sen. Jim Whitehead (R), the undisputed frontrunner to succeed the late Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.), was unable to avoid a runoff in Tuesday’s 10th district special election balloting. But as votes continued to be counted Tuesday night, it remained unclear which candidate Whitehead will face in next month’s contest.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Democrats to Tack New Stem-Cell Measure Onto Labor-HHS Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With President Bush expected to veto a bipartisan stem-cell research bill today, Senate Democrats have decided to try to force through a narrower expansion of the controversial research on human embryos by tacking it onto an appropriations bill.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[White House Taps Emling for Senate Liaison Post]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The White House has tapped John Emling, a veteran Bush administration and Capitol Hill staffer, to serve as its new top Senate liaison, sources confirmed Wednesday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Conyers Warns of Contempt Citations for White House]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) suggested in a hearing on the U.S. attorney firing scandal today that his committee may have to act on contempt of Congress motions if the White House does not respond to outstanding subpoenas.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama Releases Earmarks, Other White House Candidates Decline to Follow]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) decision to release the earmark requests he has submitted this year has been met largely with the sound of crickets from his fellow Congressional candidates for the White House, almost none of whom as of press time had taken up the challenge and released their own.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[State Senator Appointed to Fill Thomas Vacancy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) today appointed state Sen. John Barrasso (R) to succeed the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R), who died June 4 after a seven-month battle with leukemia.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19094-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[House Approves Legislative Branch Spending Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The legislative branch appropriations spending bill, which grants more than $3.1 billion to run the House of Representatives and nine legislative branch agencies in fiscal 2008, was approved on the House floor Friday afternoon.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lincoln Missing From List of Clinton's Arkansas Endorsements]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Four of the five Arkansas Democrats on Capitol Hill announced their support today for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) 2008 presidential bid.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19099-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[High Court Loosens Restrictions on Issue Ads]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court today narrowly agreed that an anti-abortion rights group had a constitutional right to air campaign-style ads during federally imposed blackout periods in the weeks before a Senate election.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19124-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Errors Doom Democratic Squad as GOP Takes 2-0 Lead]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Defense, or lack thereof, was the story last night as nine Democratic errors paved the way for a 5-2 Republican victory in the 46th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at RFK Stadium. The GOP now leads the current best-of-five series 2-0.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Richardson Tops Field in California Special, Election All but Assured]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[California Assemblywoman Laura Richardson (D) beat state Sen. Jenny Oropeza (D) Tuesday in the special election to replace the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D), garnering 37.8 percent of the vote to Oropeza’s 31.3 percent with all precincts reporting. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19177-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Immigration Cloture Vote Fails, Reid Pulls Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pulled the comprehensive immigration reform bill from the floor Thursday morning after the chamber voted against ending debate on the measure.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19204-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Conyers Threatens Contempt Citation After White House Asserts Privilege]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Setting up a battle royal between Congress and the White House, the Bush administration asserted executive privilege Thursday morning in denying requests from lawmakers for documents and testimony from former top White House officials related to the ongoing U.S. attorneys probe.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19205-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Immigration Bill Fails on Cloture Vote, Future Prospects Bleak]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Despite a last minute push by administration officials and President Bush himself to bring wayward Republicans back into the immigration fold, GOP conservatives soundly defeated a massive immigration reform package Thursday morning, voting 46-53 against invoking cloture on the bill.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19206-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Architect’s Office Selects Chief Executive for CVC]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In one of the first major milestones on the operational side of the Capitol Visitor Center, the Architect of the Capitol’s office announced today that Terrie Rouse has been hired to run the new facility as chief executive officer for visitor services.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19207-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[DeMint Blocks Leadership Deal on Ethics Bill Conference]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) scuttled a deal between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to start long-stalled conference proceedings on an ethics and lobbying reform package Thursday afternoon, raising an objection at the last minute even as McConnell and Reid were formalizing the agreement.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19208-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Leahy, Conyers Reject White House Claim of Executive Privilege]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Congressional Democrats on Friday rejected the White House assertion of executive privilege over documents and testimony relating to the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, and set a July 9 deadline for the administration to provide a more satisfying response.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Specter Pushes Bill to Rein In Presidential Signing Statements]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Frustrated by the Bush administration’s continued use of presidential signing statements to challenge or ignore provisions of Congressionally approved legislation, Senate Judiciary ranking member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has reintroduced legislation to rein in President Bush’s ability to use the tactic.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[McDermott Appeals Boehner Case to Supreme Court]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) has opted to use his last legal appeal in a long-running court battle with Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), announcing today that he will petition the Supreme Court later this month to review the case on the grounds that it raises significant First Amendment issues.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ensign Gets Finance Committee Seat]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate GOP Conference on Tuesday gave National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (Nev.) the Finance Committee seat that became vacant when Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas passed away in early June.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/19287-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Senate Day Care Center Briefly Evacuated]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate Employee Child Care Center was briefly evacuated after the building experienced an electrical malfunction, according to a spokesman for the District of Columbia Fire Department.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bush Instructs Miers Not to Testify Thursday]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[President Bush has directed former White House counsel Harriet Miers not to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[NRCC Raises $13 Million in Second Quarter]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.) told reporters Thursday morning that the NRCC raised approximately $13 million during the second quarter of this year, to close the period with around “a couple” of million dollars in cash on hand.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Protesters Removed From Senate After Disrupting Hindu Prayer]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Three protesters were arrested in the Senate gallery this morning when they attempted to keep Hindu Chaplain Rajan Zed from performing the opening prayer on the the floor of the Chamber.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Miers a No-Show on Hill; House Subcommittee Rules Privilege Claim Invalid]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A House Judiciary subcommittee voted today to reject White House claims of executive privilege and immunity for former White House counsel Harriet Miers, clearing the first hurdle for the committee to pursue contempt proceedings against her for failing to appear at the hearing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[McCain to Rally, Reassure Hill Supporters]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As he looks to dispel questions over the long-term health of his 2008 White House bid, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will hold separate meetings Wednesday with his House and Senate backers to reassure them that he is staying in the race, several GOP sources confirm.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Broun Leads Whitehead in Georgia Special Stunner]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Physician Paul Broun (R) may have pulled off a shocking upset victory Tuesday in the special election runoff to succeed the late Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.). ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Reid Halts Work on Defense Bill After Iraq Amendment Fails]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As expected, Senate Democrats on Wednesday fell well short of the votes needed to end a GOP filibuster of their efforts to bring an end to the Iraq War, prompting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to yank the Defense authorization bill and accuse Republicans of obstructing progress on the legislation.]]></description>
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