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• Time for oil industry to show more respect to workers, public

  - 2008-04-10

  I agree with USA TODAY's editorial "With crude at $100 a barrel, Big Oil needs no tax breaks" (Our view, Gasoline prices debate, April 2). The billions of dollars in tax breaks given to oil companies should be returned to our government for investment in the...

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• Bush wants twice the funding for AIDS

  - 2008-01-25

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush will propose doubling the funding to combat HIV/AIDS overseas in his last State of the Union address Monday, one of several new initiatives he says will demonstrate his intention to "sprint to the finish" of his time in office. The five-year, $30...

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• Cherokee Nation's vote is not racist

  - 2007-10-23

  The Forum piece "'Black' Cherokees fight for heritage" wrongly accused the Cherokee Nation of racism because it voted to require all citizens to have an Indian ancestor on the federally authorized base roll of our people (Oct. 12). It ignored the fact that we are one...

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• Rove: 'Now is the right time'

  - 2007-08-14

  Karl Rove said he expects to play an informal role in the 2008 presidential race as Democrats in Congress pledged to continue pursuing ethics questions about President Bush's departing top adviser. "I've got friends in all the campaigns," Rove told USA TODAY from Air Force One...

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• VIP ward at Walter Reed gets scrutiny

  - 2007-03-16

  Disclosures of substandard housing for troops treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are prompting Congress to investigate whether the Army is running a plush ward at the complex for VIPs at the expense of ordinary war casualties. House investigators are asking "if the allocations of...

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• President pushes boost in funding for national parks

  - 2007-02-05

  WASHINGTON -- National parks would be a big winner under President Bush's 2008 budget, and a plan to match up to $100 million annually in private donations could guarantee increases for a decade. Bush's budget, being unveiled today, would give the National Park Service $2.4 billion...

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• Hyde leaving Congress with mixed feelings

  - 2006-12-08

  WASHINGTON -- The retiring Republican chairman of the House International Relations Committee on Thursday delivered a blunt description of the challenge facing U.S. policymakers on Iraq. "We need to find a way to get out of Iraq that doesn't cover us with dishonor," Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said in an...

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• Returning rookies reflect on lessons learned

  - 2006-11-27

  WASHINGTON -- On the day nearly two years ago when they were sworn into office, liberal Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and conservative Republican Patrick McHenry from North Carolina found themselves symbols of Congress' diversity and its potential for discord. "We were portrayed as the yin and the yang...

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• Democrats: Identify pork sponsors

  - 2006-11-13

  Correction ran 11/14/2006: A story Monday did not make clear that a congressional earmark for an Alaskan bridge passed as part of a transportation bill, not an appropriations bill. WASHINGTON -- Democrats aim to open the next Congress in January with a new rule that identifies lawmakers who use legislative...

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• Congress claims an M.D.

  - 2006-11-08

  The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether to uphold Congress' 2003 ban on what doctors call "intact dilation and evacuation" and what critics call "partial-birth abortions." By whatever name, the procedure is awful to contemplate. But to let the ban stand, the court would have to pretend that...

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