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Goss Pushes Hard

Victory Likely, With Acrimony

With the Senate Intelligence Committee set to begin consideration today on the high-profile nomination of Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) to head the CIA, insiders in both parties said Goss and the White House are waging an aggressive, behind-the-scenes campaign to win Senate approval for the veteran lawmaker.

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Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.
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