Senate panel approves sweeping penalties on Iran (AP)

news 02-FEB-12

Hollywood regroups after losing battle over anti-piracy bills

latimes 21-JAN-12

Reid puts off PIPA vote

CBSnews 20-JAN-12

SOPA and PIPA opponents warn the bills are not dead yet

latimes 19-JAN-12

US Congress agrees to extend Patriot Act

aljazeera 27-MAY-11

US Senate approves new 'START' pact

aljazeera 22-DEC-10

US-Russia arms pact 'set to pass'

bbc 21-DEC-10

Vote to repeal ban on gays in US military

RTERadio 18-DEC-10

Obama's tax-cut strategy may falter on other fronts

latimes 17-DEC-10

2010 MID-TERM ELECTION: Republicans seize control as millions of U.S. voters turn their backs on Obama

dailymail 03-NOV-10

Boxer vs. Fiorina: A Dead Heat in California Senate Race

time 01-SEP-10

China's export surge fuels calls for end to dollar peg

telegraph 10-JUN-10

BP 'capturing half Gulf oil leak'

phantis 06-JUN-10

Oil successfully siphoned from capped well to ship

cnn 04-JUN-10

Stuck blade stalls BP effort to cap well

cnn 02-JUN-10

Republican and Democrat big hitters are losers in Senate primaries

thetimes 19-MAY-10

Oil spill claims its first head

thetimes 18-MAY-10

Weather yet another primary obstacle for Pennsylvania's Specter

cnn 18-MAY-10

BP rig's safety valve failed test before oil spill explosion

telegraph 12-MAY-10

Obama names Supreme Court choice

bbc 10-MAY-10

Utah GOP rejects Bennett's bid for fourth term

cnn 09-MAY-10

High & Low Finance: In Tax Law, an Overdue Overhaul a Step, With Miles to Go

IHT 26-FEB-10

Baptists probed in Haiti child case

aljazeera 03-FEB-10

Senate healthcare vote 'assured'

bbc 21-NOV-09

Senate to add 'public option' to healthcare bill

latimes 27-OCT-09

Snowe pushes health care compromise as positions harden

cnn 14-OCT-09

Baucus offers higher subsidies, other changes to his healthcare bill

latimes 23-SEP-09

Senate panel begins consideration of Baucus health plan

cnn 22-SEP-09

US Democrats make healthcare deal

bbc 29-JUL-09

Dems splinter in health care overhaul debate

cnn 17-JUL-09

Lawmakers knew of surveillance, ex-CIA chief says

latimes 12-JUL-09

Report: Bush-era surveillance went beyond wiretaps

latimes 11-JUL-09

The GOP's New Health-Care Alternative. Join the Line

time 18-JUN-09

Sebelius Confirmation Hearings Begin

NPRnews 31-MAR-09

Obama signs sweeping public lands reform legislation

cnn 31-MAR-09

Pool champ from Taiwan to be S'porean

AsiaOne 28-MAR-09

Obama defends Geithner, focuses on passing budget

washtimes 22-MAR-09

Congressional Budget Office sees more red ink in Obama budget

latimes 21-MAR-09

Whipping up the mob against AIG doesn’t always pay

thetimes 18-MAR-09

Wall Street stocks hit 12-year low as insurer AIG unveils £43.8bn loss

dailymail 03-MAR-09

President Barack Obama unveils $4 trillion budget$

thetimes 27-FEB-09

US Senate backs treasury nominee

bbc 27-JAN-09

Clinton nomination may pass committee today (AP)

news 15-JAN-09

Barack Obama names former chief of staff Panetta as new CIA chief

telegraph 10-JAN-09

Obama: New layoffs show need for urgent action (AP)

news 09-JAN-09

NBC: Merkley projected winner in Oregon

msnbc 06-NOV-08

Iran says ready to negotiate on nuclear incentives (Reuters)

news 19-JUN-08

Syed Asghar Raza new IGP Islamabad

app 07-MAY-08

Obama hopes to shake off Clinton

ft 05-MAY-08

Obama wins Guam caucus

bbc 04-MAY-08

Letters show latitude on U.S. interrogations: report (Reuters)

news 27-APR-08

US military death toll in Iraq tops 4000

euronews 24-MAR-08

Eleven killed in two Baghdad attacks

RTERadio 23-MAR-08

Bush scores victory on wiretap law

ft 13-FEB-08

Seven-year Internet tax ban heads to President (InfoWorld)

news 30-OCT-07

Senate approves extension of Internet tax ban

reuters 26-OCT-07

Lawmakers back CIA's internal critic (AP)

news 13-OCT-07

Investigators: F-14 parts sold to public

usaToday 02-AUG-07

Lib Dems plan 4p cut in tax rate

bbc 12-JUL-07

Senators debate Cheney stance on secrets

usaToday 24-JUN-07

Immigration reform advocates vow comeback

ChinaPost 10-JUN-07

Taxes on wealthy would rise to pay for U.S. health care under Obama plan

IHT 29-MAY-07

U.S. intelligence agencies predicted problems U.S. now facing in Iraq

haaretzdaily 26-MAY-07

Spy agencies predicted problems U.S. now faces in Iraq

IHT 25-MAY-07

Senators Wary of Bush's Wiretap Proposal

ABCnews 02-MAY-07

Drug Negotiation Effort Fails in Senate

ABCnews 18-APR-07

Veto threat hangs over war deadline

cnn 29-MAR-07

Bush: fixing health care is "urgent priority"

reuters 17-FEB-07

Howard's Barack-ing for Obama

thesun 12-FEB-07

Pentagon halts sales of F-14 parts

cnn 31-JAN-07

Meet the Filibuster's Cousin: the Hold

ABCnewsRSS 17-SEP-06

Senate: Saddam Saw al-Qaida As Threat

guardian 09-SEP-06

House votes to slash inherited estate taxes

RSS 23-JUN-06

Senate panel backs Hayden for CIA

newsweek 24-MAY-06

Senate Panel Backs Hayden CIA Confirmation

guardian 23-MAY-06

Iran rules out enrichment suspension

aljazeera 21-MAY-06

Hayden Says CIA Must Look Past Controversy

guardian 19-MAY-06

CIA pick: Iraq lessons to help guide Iran policy

RSS 18-MAY-06

Security chief claims phone spying lawful

ft 14-MAY-06

Bush defends U.S. spying program

RSS 13-MAY-06

Congress Demands Phone Records Answers

guardian 12-MAY-06

General Who May Be CIA Chief Makes Rounds

guardian 10-MAY-06

Bush faces battle over 'Pentagon man' for CIA

guardian 09-MAY-06

Tax Law Writers Rely on Pros for Returns

guardian 17-APR-06

Tax Law Authors Have Pros Do Their Returns

ABCnews 16-APR-06

Senate Backs Ethics Bill, House Up Next

guardian 30-MAR-06

Senate Nixes New Ethics Violations Office

guardian 29-MAR-06

GOP senators offer spying bill

cnn 08-MAR-06

Senate Approves Patriot Act Renewal

guardian 03-MAR-06

Poll: Surveillance Wins Some More Backers

guardian 10-FEB-06

Negroponte Questioned on Eavesdropping

guardian 03-FEB-06

Bush tells abortion foes, 'We will prevail'

RSS 23-JAN-06

Nelson Only Democrat to Vow Vote for Alito

guardian 19-JAN-06

Assisted suicide law upheld by US court

ft 18-JAN-06

More Lawmakers Drop Abramoff-Linked Funds

guardian 07-JAN-06

Lawmakers Keeping Money Linked to Abramoff

guardian 06-JAN-06

US senators seek probe of Bush eavesdropping orders

timesofmalta 21-DEC-05

Bush Vigorously Defends Domestic Spying

guardian 20-DEC-05

Opposition to Patriot Act brews in Senate

cnn 15-DEC-05

Senate GOP Fights to Sustain Patriot Act

guardian 15-DEC-05

U.S. spy programs within U.S. expanded

washtimes 27-NOV-05

Budget cutting bill presents challenges to House leadership

RSS 17-NOV-05

Oil chiefs and US politicians trade blows

thetimes 10-NOV-05

New US chief justice sworn in

aljazeera 30-SEP-05

Changes at the Supreme Court

cnn 29-SEP-05

Dems Vow Battle Over Ideologue Nominees

guardian 28-SEP-05

Senate expected to approve energy bill

reuters 29-JUL-05

CAFTA faces opposition in U.S. House

washtimes 01-JUL-05

Senate Heads Toward Approval on CAFTA

ABCnews 30-JUN-05

Survey: Most say Medicaid 'very important'

RSS 29-JUN-05

Rich and popular: here comes China

ft 25-JUN-05

U.S. lawmakers tour Guantanamo prison

RSS 25-JUN-05

Bush's Road Gets Rougher

nytimes 20-JUN-05

Bush Taps Rep. Cox For SEC Post

CBSnews 04-JUN-05

Bush Picks California Rep. Cox to Head SEC

CBSnews 02-JUN-05

Democrats Wary of Patriot Act Expansion

guardian 24-MAY-05

Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Sought

CBSnews 23-MAY-05

Partisan Divide on Social Security Widens

guardian 27-APR-05

Divided Lawmakers Tackle Social Security

ABCnews 26-APR-05

White House Swears in Intelligence Chief

guardian 22-APR-05

Lighters banned from planes, secure areas

washtimes 14-APR-05

Questioning John Bolton

IHT 13-APR-05

US vows intelligence revamp

NEWScomAU 12-APR-05

Tories let terror Bill go through

thetimes 02-MAR-05

High Court to Review Assisted Suicide Law

guardian 22-FEB-05

FCC Probes Commentator's Promotion of Bush Plan

reuters 15-JAN-05

Bush rewards Rice for loyalty to his cause

tehranglobe 17-NOV-04

Democrats Face Months of Soul Searching

guardian 04-NOV-04

Republicans retain control of Senate

timesofindia 03-NOV-04

Republicans Set to Retain House Majority

guardian 30-OCT-04

CIA nominee disputes prewar views on Iraq

IHT 21-SEP-04

CIA Chief Nominee Pledges Accuracy Over Politics

reuters 20-SEP-04

Senate Blocks Outsourcing of Some Fed Jobs

guardian 09-SEP-04

Venezuela to hold vote audit

TheAustralian 19-AUG-04

How your Senator voted

cnn 15-JUL-04

Dems Lay Out Convention Agenda

CBSnews 14-JUL-04

Tobacco firm pays to curb smuggling

guardian 10-JUL-04

Report damns US intelligence

NEWScomAU 08-JUL-04

[ said]: I have come to believe that Iran's leaders are not going to give up their push for a nuclear weapons capability, unless they believe it is going to cost them their hold on power,

voanews 31-JAN-12

[ said]: It’s going to be a new day in the Senate,

IHT 21-JAN-12

[-said]: Unfortunately, this announcement to study the DNS provision does not eliminate the clearly identified threat to net security contained within this bill,

cnet 13-JAN-12

[-said]: This is about trying to get out in front of this issue before it's just another high-decibel shouting match,

news 15-DEC-11

[argued that:]: traditional Medicare operates like a public option,

ABCnews 15-DEC-11

[-said]: We know there’s a campaign ahead,

ABCnews 15-DEC-11

[-repeated]: we are not oblivious to the politics,

ABCnews 15-DEC-11

[-said earlier this]: overreaching approach to policing the Internet when a more balanced and targeted approach would be more effective,

cnet 08-DEC-11

[-told]: Right now, piracy is being dealt with in the legal system, through a magistrate, narrowly in scope,

ibtimes 02-DEC-11

[-said]: Wireless is a prime example of how every time a new innovation hits the market, governments invent new ways to tax it,

AP 02-NOV-11

[ wrote]: We recognise the administration's commitment to the strategic relationship with Bahrain …

ipsnews 20-OCT-11

[ said]: In area after area, the Chinese do not play by the rules,

cnet 19-OCT-11

[-said]: The American solar industry is facing unparalleled challenges and without the leadership of your administration this industry may disappear,

alertnet 19-OCT-11

[-said]: Bill Bradley told me once that tax reform is always totally, completely and thoroughly impossible until 15 minutes before it comes together,

news 21-SEP-11

[ said]: At some point, people just see how dysfunctional the tax law really is,

news 21-SEP-11

[-said]: I can just tell you that what concerns me about some of those ideas is that under some versions of it, you could still have a lot of gaming,

news 21-SEP-11

[-said]: We ought to take away some tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, like deferral, which specifically allows American business to close in the United States, set up overseas and then pay no taxes to the American government until they bring that money back,

news 21-SEP-11

[-said]: There is a lot of interest on our side of the aisle in working on this issue, but I would urge colleagues to resist the McConnell amendment,

reuters 20-SEP-11

[-said]: Furthermore, China’s subsidisation of solar panel production provides the grounds for your Trade Representative to pursue litigation at the World Trade Organization,

scmp 09-SEP-11

[-said]: Chinese imports of solar panels are surging and are on pace to increase 240 per cent this year, compared to last year,

scmp 09-SEP-11

[-added]: I urge you to work with the domestic industry and to quickly use these authorities to prevent an industry from being decimated by unfair, foreign competition,

scmp 09-SEP-11

[-said]: Chinese imports of solar panels are surging and are on pace to increase 240 percent this year, compared to 2010,

alertnet 08-SEP-11

[-said]: Furthermore, China's subsidization of solar panel production provides the grounds for your Trade Representative to pursue litigation at the World Trade Organization,

alertnet 08-SEP-11

[-said]: Chinese imports of solar panels are surging and are on pace to increase 240 percent this year, compared to 2010. Furthermore, imports of Chinese solar panels increased 1,593-percent between 2006 and 2010,

news 08-SEP-11

[-said]: they will be stunned and they will be angry,

AHN 31-AUG-11

[ said]: This loan guarantee from the DOE is the kind of job creating investment this country needs,

finanznachrichten 19-AUG-11

[said:]: there are two Patriot Acts in America. The first is the text of the law itself and the second is the government's secret interpretation of what they believe the law means. The American people will be extremely surprised when they learn how the Patriot Act is secretly being interpreted.

AP 03-AUG-11

[-said]: One of the central questions that Congress needs to ask is, are these procedures working as intended?

AP 03-AUG-11

[-pointed out that]: Are they keeping the communications of law-abiding Americans from being swept up under this authority that was designed to apply to foreigners?

AP 03-AUG-11

[-said]: We're not asking these questions to embarrass the administration or make the intelligence community's job more difficult,

ChinaPost 29-JUL-11

[ said]: Our sense is the revolving door is still swinging too widely,

washtimes 27-JUL-11

[-said]: It just goes on and on and on,

AP 26-JUL-11

[-stated]: GPS technology is unquestionably a great tool, not just for Americans on the go and cellular companies offering services, but for law enforcement professionals looking to track suspects and catch criminals,

ibtimes 15-JUL-11

[-said]: A significant gap has developed now between what the public thinks the law says and what the government secretly claims it says,

msnbc 27-MAY-11

[-said]: When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry,

ibtimes 27-MAY-11

[-says]: But that does not equal, nor did it equal, that we lobbied to have it removed.

npr 14-APR-11

[-recalls]: You lost free-choice vouchers,

expressindia 14-APR-11

[said:]: hiding

wsj 07-APR-11

[-said]: a breathtaking sum,

reuters 11-MAR-11

[ said]: The Build America Bonds, in the year and a half we had them in the Recovery Act, were wildly successful,

reuters 11-MAR-11

[-says]: There are other reasons that went into job creation in the 1980s,

time 04-MAR-11

[ said]: The president is serving it up to the governors on a plate,

latimes 01-MAR-11

[-said]: You've got a lot of states where Republican governors, Republican legislatures, are clearly going to have their ideas about health reform,

npr 01-MAR-11

[-said]: Bumping up the start date means that states can focus on ways to make the new health law work at its best from day one,

csmonitor 19-FEB-11

[-wrote]: I worry that domain name seizures could function as a means for end-running the normal legal process in order to target websites that may prevail in full court,

register 07-FEB-11

[said:]: You can't just gaze into a crystal ball and try to guess what can't be predicted, but I do want to get a general sense of when you all told the president that we were faced with something that was as serious as what we have seen in recent days.

cnn 05-FEB-11

[ said]: What I am interested in is when the president was told how serious this was,

WashingtonPost 03-FEB-11

Obama [-said]: We'll work with you to do it. I've said before, I don't believe that any single party has a monopoly on good ideas. And I will go to bat for whatever works, no matter who or where it comes from. Under Obama's plan states could make the decision to opt out of the federal health care reform requirements by 2017. But three senators, Democrats Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, as well as Scott Brown of Massachusetts introduced a plan, which Obama backed, to bring forward that date to 2014. The

kuwaittimes 02-MAR-11