Congress to Help Hayden Keep Rank

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
May 18, 2006, 12 a.m.

With confirmation hearings on President Bush’s nomination of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden as director of the Central Intelligence Agency slated to begin today, GOP leaders and the Bush administration have agreed to take a series of unusual steps aimed at allowing Hayden to maintain his rank as a four-star general while suspending Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s authority over Hayden as a military officer while he serves as CIA director.



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July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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