Word: congress
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...Congress later negated that ruling when they amended the Indian Civil Rights Act. Under the revised act, a tribe's criminal jurisdiction covers all Native Americans...
Yash Aggarwal, Krishna Kolluri and Ram Uppuluri, all former candidates for the U.S. Congress, spoke about the political implications of being South Asian...
Gore and Gephardt had been rivals at least since their brutal sparring as also-rans in the 1988 presidential primaries and probably since the day in 1977 when they arrived in Congress as the smartest boys in a class in which all the members considered themselves most likely to succeed. Now, in challenging Gore for the 2000 nomination, Gephardt was prepared to wage nothing less than a struggle for their party's soul. All of which might have given the two plenty to talk about at dinner, except they didn't talk about any of it. Gore never brought...
...After Congress last year approved a 15 percent increase in funding for the National Institutes for Health (NIH), many at Harvard felt they could relax their lobbying efforts...
...Casey said Congress will likely add somewhat to the White House's "sobering" funding outlook, and said he remains "quietly optimistic...