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...will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines," Bush told an American Legion audience in suburban Virginia. The next day, his Pentagon did it all by itself, without any help from anyone of either party on Capitol Hill...
...eight U.S. attorneys last year. In all some 2,400 pages of new documents were made available five days before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to give make-or-break testimony in the scandal. With their computers back up and running, Capitol Hill staffers are digging through the pile, looking for new avenues of investigation...
...Sources tell TIME that discussions are under way on Capitol Hill about whether to offer just such a deal to the key former aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The discussions - still largely informal - follow Goodling's assertion of her Fifth Amendment privilege to refuse to testify about her role in the controversial firings. Were Goodling to receive some form of immunity, she could be legally compelled to testify or risk facing charges of contempt of Congress...
...believes that only a small group of people would attempt this sort of fraud, although those who succeed at manipulating the system would pose serious political risks. Dynarski and Scott-Clayton released their discussion paper last month and presented the results at a forum in Washington, D.C. On Capitol Hill, Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) is also working to simplify the FAFSA form by allowing information from the Internal Revenue Service to be entered automatically into the financial aid formula. The congressman’s proposal focuses on the procedure of filing for federal financial aid, but does not propose...
...wave of party politics to become one of our greatest presidents. Like Kennedy, he had a pretty good civil rights record of his own. Oh yes, and he was from Illinois. In fact, Obama even went as far as to make his announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Lincoln’s old stomping ground...