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Senators Urge More Stringent Rules for Toy Safety
Legal News Feed 09/13/2007[##_1L|1035764337.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Mattel's chief executive apologized to Congress on Wednesday for failing to stop toys coated in lead paint from reaching consumers and vowed to take immediate steps to prevent it from happenin...
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Immigration Divides Romney and Giuliani
Legal News Feed 08/15/2007[##_1L|1205330119.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]Mitt Romney accuses former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani of making his city a haven for illegal immigrants. Giuliani denies it, insisting he cracked down on lawlessness of every kind. It's the ...
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Candidates stop short on same-sex marriage
Legal News Feed 08/10/2007[##_1L|1023953721.jpg|width="137" height="110" alt=""|_##]Melissa Etheridge confronted Hillary Rodham Clinton about her husband's gay rights record, accusing Bill Clinton of throwing gay and lesbian supporters "under the bus" by pushing for the "Don'...
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Bush signs intelligence surveillance bill
Legal News Feed 08/05/2007President Bush on Sunday signed into law an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terror suspects without the need for warrants. The law, approved by the Senate and the House just before Congress adjourned for its summer break, ...
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US Senate panel backs FDA tobacco regulation bill
Legal News Feed 08/02/2007A Senate committee Wednesday embraced legislation that would for the first time allow federal regulation of cigarettes.The bill, approved 13-8 by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, would require the Food and Drug Administration to r...
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GOP senator wants probe; Spitzer says no
Legal News Feed 07/31/2007Gov. Eliot Spitzer said there is no need for a deeper investigation into his aides' roles in a scheme to discredit a lead political rival, something the head of the Senate Investigations Committee called for Monday. "Given that the attorney general a...
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Democrats Urge Perjury Probe of Gonzales
Legal News Feed 07/26/2007[##_1L|1072400863.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Senate Democrats called for a perjury investigation against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Thursday and subpoenaed top presidential aide Karl Rove in a deepening political and legal clas...
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US doubles Bin Laden bounty to 50 million
Legal News Feed 07/13/2007[##_1L|1068382509.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The US Senate Friday doubled the bounty on Osama bin Laden to 50 million dollars, reflecting frustration that the Al Qaeda mastermind remains free and rising anxiety over possible future attac...
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Senators lose faith in Bush over Iraq
Legal News Feed 07/08/2007The trickle of Republican rebellion against President George W.Bush's Iraq policy has turned into a stream with two more previously loyal senators joining the swelling ranks ofcritics.Lamar Alexander said "it should be clear to the President that the...
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McDermott Seeks Court Input on Tape Case
Legal News Feed 07/07/2007Rep. Jim McDermott said Friday he will ask the Supreme Court to decide whether he had a right to disclose contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago.A federal appeals court ruled in May that the Wash...
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Bush not ruling out a pardon for Libby
Legal News Feed 07/04/2007[##_1L|1317444881.jpg|width="130" height="93" alt=""|_##]One day after commuting the sentence of former White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, President Bush defended his decision and left open the possibility of granting him a full pardon, s...
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Congress-Bush subpoena fight could end up in court
Legal News Feed 07/02/2007[##_1L|1021939128.jpg|width="137" height="110" alt=""|_##]The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said yesterday he was ready to go to court if the White House resisted congressional subpoenas for information on the firing of federal prosecutors. "If...