Dignity dies for free TV time
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, said he knew he was taking a chance when he agreed to sit for a fake "news interview" with Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert.
Being a "Colbert Report" fan since the show debuted last fall, Sherman said he was game despite the host's reputation for merciless and deadpan mockery of politicians.
"I'm not at all sure I came across well," Sherman said of the segment that was taped Friday. But, he said, "It was fun."
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Border security backfire
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Rachel Uranga - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Beefed-up efforts to tighten the borders have failed to slow the flow of undocumented immigrants and are even discouraging illegal residents from returning to their home country, the author of a study released Tuesday found.
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Feds: No quake-response plan
Thursday, February 16, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Under fire for its botched handling of Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that there is no specific federal strategy for responding to a catastrophic earthquake in California, although it will review the state's own plan.
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End of C-17 could harm U.S. industry
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The Pentagon's plan to mothball production of the C-17 cargo plane in Long Beach would have a devastating effect beyond Southern California, sucking about $8.4 billion from the economy and eliminating more than 25,000 jobs nationwide, a new federal study says.
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McKeon may chair key House panel
Thursday, February 9, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| A key group of Republican leaders tapped Howard P. "Buck" McKeon on Wednesday to chair the House Education and Workforce Committee, putting the Santa Clarita Republican and former school board member a step closer to the top slot.
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Military standby desired at border
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The U.S. military should be called out to protect the U.S. border against military-style incursions from Mexico, the head of the Border Patrol union told a congressional homeland security committee Tuesday.
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Southland lawmakers react to speech along party lines
Wednesday, February 1, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Southland Democrats pilloried President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech Tuesday, saying it was littered with already broken promises on health care, energy and education, while area Republicans praised the address as a show of strong leadership at home and abroad.
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Want more capital in the Capitol? Hire a lobbyist
Monday, January 23, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Do you have a lobbyist?
If not, you're part of a fast-shrinking minority without a hired gun in Washington, D.C.
If you think that's an exaggeration, consider this:
Marriage counselors have lobbyists. People who grow sunflowers have a lobbyist. The oncologists, the neurologists and the anesthesiologists all have their own lobbyists. So do the cosmetologists. And the meteorologists.
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Area firms paying to play?
Sunday, January 15, 2006 Lisa Friedman and Edward Barrera - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Nearly every defense contractor that Southern California lawmakers boasted securing federal funding for over the past three years also made political contributions, according to a review by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
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Republicans call for ethics reform, target lobbyists
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Eager to shake off the shadow of corruption cast by recent lobbying and bribery scandals, Republicans unveiled sweeping ethics changes Tuesday that would limit politicians' perks and could fundamentally change the tactics special-interest groups use on Capitol Hill.
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Area rep vows friendship
Sunday, January 8, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| President George W. Bush calls disgraced Capitol Hill superlobbyist Jack Abramoff "outrageous."
Montana Sen. Conrad Burns calls him "a bad guy."
Thousand Oaks Rep. Elton Gallegly calls him a "scoundrel."
Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher calls him "friend."
As politicians scramble to distance themselves from Abramoff - who pleaded guilty last week to charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and wire fraud in a sweeping influence-peddling case - Rohrabacher, a Republican, remains unwaveringly loyal to his pal of 25 years.
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Sherman makes Iran his mission
Friday, January 6, 2006 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| When U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman found a moment alone with President George W. Bush at a recent White House holiday party, the Sherman Oaks Democrat homed in on the probability of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
A few weeks later, at an Oval Office bill signing, Sherman again raised the issue, handing Bush a five-page memo detailing the steps he believes the administration should be taking.
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Immigration debate parallels
Saturday, December 31, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The immigrants work for peanuts, drive down wages and push Americans out of good jobs. They swarm the hospitals, jails and welfare rolls. Their neighborhoods are crime-ridden. They don't learn English. They won't assimilate.
The sentiments could have sprung from last month's House debate on illegal immigration. But those arguments were made 128 years ago before a congressional committee investigating the heavy influx of Chinese immigrants.
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Congress offsides at Rose Bowl
Thursday, December 8, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| With millions of dollars and bragging rights at stake, a congressional panel began investigating Wednesday whether to change the controversial system used to determine the nation's top college football teams.
But Rose Bowl officials testified that sacking the Bowl Championship Series - long criticized for favoring major colleges and, in some years, failing to produce clear winners - in favor of a playoff system could jeopardize the venerable Pasadena tradition.
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Bill to ease deportations
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Setting the stage for a bitter pre-Christmas fight, top House lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would make it easier to deport legal - as well as illegal - immigrants and mandate a $360 million employee verification program.
But despite insistence from President George W. Bush that any immigration measure must also create a way for America's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to temporarily live and work in the U.S., the bill does not include such a provision.
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Mexico relents on killers
Thursday, December 1, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Clearing the way for investigators to hunt down hundreds of fugitives from American justice, the Mexican Supreme Court has lifted a ban on extraditing suspects who might face life imprisonment in the United States - a decision hailed Wednesday by California law enforcement officials.
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Miller blocks flood-insurance provision
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Rep. Gary Miller, R-Brea, blocked a measure last week that he said would have put the burden of covering Hurricane Katrina and other disaster claims disproportionately onto Southern California homeowners.
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Support services targeted
Sunday, November 20, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| California could lose as much as $4.8 billion in collections of delinquent child-support payments under a House-approved measure that slashes federal funds for enforcement, officials said Friday.
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Score for Southland projects
Sunday, November 20, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The House approved $4 million Friday to begin transporting President Richard Nixon's White House records from Washington, D.C., to their new home in Yorba Linda.
The money was part of a $137.6 billion federal spending bill that will fund everything from transportation to performing arts programs. It passed 492-31 and an identical version is expected to pass the Senate.
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House takes on court stance
Thursday, November 17, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Lawmakers in the U.S. House overwhelmingly denounced the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday for tossing out a lawsuit by Palmdale parents furious that their children were surveyed at school about sex.
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Schiff taken up on offer
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Lawmakers release public service announcements all the time - usually to tepid public response.
But when Rep. Adam Schiff aired a spot recently inviting Hurricane Katrina victims to call him for help, the deluge was overwhelming.
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Californians priced out of home market
Sunday, November 13, 2005 Kerry Cavanaugh - - Los Angeles Daily News
| It took just five minutes for Cleo Vasquez to size up the two-bedroom Tarzana condo: nice tile floor and fresh sage paint. But the master bedroom was too small for her two daughters to share, a bathroom sink stood in the hallway and the $334,000 price tag was at the very top of her budget.
Another reject, maybe the 30th or 40th in her year-long search for her first home.
Vasquez is among a growing number of residents who find the American Dream of home ownership out of reach in Southern California. Since 2000, real estate prices have been hitting new highs, with prices doubling in some communities.
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House OKs funds for prisons
Thursday, November 10, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The House approved $405 million Wednesday to repay states the high cost of imprisoning criminal illegal immigrants, the highest amount approved in four years for a program the Bush administration has long sought to eradicate.
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Dems gloat at Arnold's rebuke
Thursday, November 10, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| San Fernando Valley Republicans laid low Wednesday as congressional Democrats crowed over the resounding defeat of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reform agenda.
"Who's the 'girlie man' now?" taunted Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, recalling the insult Schwarzenegger used to describe his Democratic opponents in the state Legislature.
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Dreier gets a share of GOP power
Sunday, November 6, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| When California lawmaker David Dreier's name emerged last month as a temporary successor to freshly indicted Majority Leader Tom DeLay, murmuring began among a faction of conservatives who said Dreier was too moderate for the job.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert ultimately gave the slot to Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, while giving Dreier, R-Glendora, many of the leadership responsibilities.
Whether right-wing members derailed Dreier's ascension is questionable.
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U.S. in dark on security plan
Thursday, October 27, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| A Department of Homeland Security plan to protect the nation's roads, bridges and other infrastructure from terrorist attacks remains classified and hidden from the state and local officials it was intended to help, a Senate panel was told Wednesday.
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U.S. failed to aid son, mom says
Monday, October 24, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| A Calabasas woman whose 35-year-old son was killed in China this year has launched a campaign against the U.S. State Department, saying the American consulate failed to help her son when he was in danger and then covered up the circumstances of his death.
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Families blast gun-act vote
Friday, October 21, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Families of the victims of a 1999 San Fernando Valley shooting rampage denounced Congress on Thursday as it approved sweeping legislation that protects the gun industry from nearly all lawsuits - including theirs.
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Liability bill would shield gun makers
Thursday, October 20, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| In a move likely to wipe out a lawsuit by victims of a 1999 San Fernando Valley shooting spree, the House of Representatives is expected today to pass a bill immunizing gun manufacturers from liability in such incidents.
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FEMA lacks plan for Bay Area quake response
Thursday, October 20, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| FEMA officials said Tuesday they do not have a response plan specifically designed in the event of a major California earthquake, despite identifying a San Francisco quake as one of the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing the country.
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State reps blast Bush plan
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Congress renewed fierce debate over illegal immigration Tuesday, with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff insisting that "brute enforcement" without immigration reform will do little to solve America's border problems.
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Truck deaths mount in state
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Deadly big-rig crashes are piling up on California freeways, putting the Golden State second only to Texas in the sheer number of annual truck fatalities, a study released Monday found.
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Terror funding questioned
Friday, October 14, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| A $31.9 billion homeland security bill expected to be signed by the president is raising questions among California officials over the future of federal anti-terrorism funding in the state.
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Congress OKs billions in aid
Saturday, September 3, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Congress rushed $10.5 billion in emergency money to victims of Hurricane Katrina on Friday while vowing to approve more in the weeks ahead as well as investigate how federal, state and local relief efforts went wrong.
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Budget deficit yet another storm victim
Saturday, September 3, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The federal deficit may have been the last thing on California congressional leaders' minds Friday as lawmakers approved $10.5 billion in Hurricane Katrina relief aid, but analysts say the newest burden on the national debt shows a federal unwillingness to budget for major disasters.
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Bush unveils new strategy to combat meth
Sunday, August 28, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The White House unveiled a nationwide strategy on Thursday targeting methamphetamine abuse, but the plan drew immediate criticism from California leaders who said it was underfunded and offered little to curb the crisis.
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Ventura base socked
Sunday, August 28, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| In a sweeping blow to Ventura County, the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted overwhelmingly Thursday to shift more than 2,000 Naval Base Ventura County jobs to the High Desert of Kern County.
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California shortchanged again
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| California consistently tops national traffic congestion lists, but the Golden State sinks to the bottom of a new list, receiving less per capita than almost any other state under the new federal highway bill, a report issued Tuesday said.
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State gets billions with highway bill
Saturday, July 30, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| California will get more than $21.6 billion for its freeways, roads and mass-transit systems -- projects expected to create 800,000 new jobs -- under the $286.4 billion federal highway spending bill that Congress approved Friday after a two-year impasse.
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Valley HOV funding OK'd
Friday, July 29, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Moving to ease nightmare traffic for San Fernando Valley commuters, Congress struck a deal late Thursday to give Los Angeles $130 million for a car-pool lane on the northbound 405 Freeway as part of a massive $286.5 billion national transportation bill.
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Local reps have big say in trade pact
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Four fence-sitting Southern Californians are among a handful of lawmakers who will decide the fate this week of a Central American trade agreement that could yield big benefits for Hollywood and Los Angeles' $12 billion apparel industry.
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Terror funding baffling
Friday, July 15, 2005 Troy Anderson and Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The federal Homeland Security Department's list of 73 Los Angeles County sites that will get specialized terrorism protection left local officials puzzled Thursday because it includes some low-priority targets and leaves off such high-profile potential targets as universities and hospitals.
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Security fund reallocation fails
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Rural U.S. senators maintained their hold on homeland defense dollars Tuesday, defeating an attempt by Sen. Dianne Feinstein to concentrate anti-terrorism money in Los Angeles, New York and other target-heavy cities.
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Feinstein to protect security $
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is headed for a showdown today with Connecticut and Maine lawmakers who want to divert anti-terrorism money from Los Angeles and other high-threat areas to small states like the ones they represent.
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Rail security a low priority of Congress
Friday, July 8, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| More than a year since declaring the deadly Madrid train bombings a "wake-up call" to the need for tighter rail security in the U.S., Congress has failed to pass far-reaching legislation safeguarding the nation's bus, train and subway systems.
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House votes to limit U.S. aid to Mexico
Saturday, July 2, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| A vote in the House of Representatives this week to punish Mexico for failing to extradite the suspected killers of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy David March and other law-enforcement officers divided Southland lawmakers, though not entirely along partisan lines.
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Senators to battle for 405 fix
Friday, July 1, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The gridlock on the 405 Freeway -- at least the political gridlock -- eased Thursday, when California's two U.S. Senators vowed to fight hard for $400 million to expedite a northbound car-pool lane on the San Diego Freeway.
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Stores behind new cold medicine bill
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The nation's major grocery chains and drug stores threw their support Tuesday behind legislation that would limit over-the-counter sales of cold medicine, breathing new life into efforts to thwart production of methamphetamine.
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Bill would boot out foreigners in gangs
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Under legislation backed Tuesday by a Ventura County congressman, the Department of Homeland Security would be able to deport immigrants who have not been convicted of committing crimes, if they belong to a group the government has designated as a criminal gang.
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Arnold backs project
Thursday, June 30, 2005 Lisa Mascaro and Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Under criticism for missing a rare chance to help secure $400 million for a coveted car-pool lane on the 405 Freeway, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped up Wednesday and promised to support the project -- if Van Nuys Rep. Howard Berman can deliver the federal money.
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Hollywood wins big on file sharing
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The Supreme Court delivered Hollywood a resounding victory Monday, ruling unanimously that online file-sharing companies that enable people to download music and movies can be held responsible for copyright piracy.
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Two-term limit under fire
Saturday, June 25, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| President George W. Bush for life? Well, not really.
But Democrat Rep. Howard Berman would be willing to let presidents give it their best shot.
The Van Nuys congressman this week teamed up with a small group of lawmakers trying to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms in office.
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Valenti building has its preview
Thursday, June 23, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Lauding former Motion Picture Association of America Chief Jack Valenti as "the closest thing to a permanent figure the movie industry has ever had," lawmakers and movie moguls on Wednesday renamed Hollywood's lobbying headquarters in Washington, D.C., in his honor.
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Nevada asks court to halt Yucca rail line plan
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
AP's KEN RITTER - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Nevada asked a federal court Tuesday to derail Energy Department plans for a rail line to ship radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain, claiming "abuses of authority" by the Bush administration and its "decide-first, analyze-later approach."
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Illegal hirer amnesty?
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Penalties against employers who hire illegal immigrants have all but disappeared since 1999, a federal homeland security investigator told Congress on Tuesday.
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Extradition stirs up controversy
Sunday, June 12, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The family of slain Los Angeles sheriff's Deputy David March finds both solace and sadness in the arrest in Mexico of a man suspected of killing a Denver police officer.
But the decision of the Denver district attorney to not seek the death penalty or life imprisonment in exchange for getting the suspected killer back to the U.S. also has exacerbated rifts within the March family and added to recriminations about the case.
In Washington, both the Los Angeles and Denver cases are serving as a call to arms among members of Congress bent on pressuring the administration to renegotiate its extradition treaty with Mexico.
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House panel passes sweeping U.N. reform bill
Friday, June 10, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| The U.S. may withhold funds from the United Nations under a sweeping overhaul bill that passed this week after a fierce debate among Southern Californians who dominate the House of Representatives' international affairs panel.
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House panel will debate genocide
Thursday, June 9, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Rep. Adam Schiff, D- Pasadena, announced late Wednesday that the House International Relations Committee has agreed to take up the contentious debate over whether Congress should officially call the massacre of Armenians during World War I a "genocide."
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Illegal immigration to grow?
Thursday, June 9, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| A looming free trade agreement with Central America likely will increase illegal immigration to the United States, two Los Angeles-area Democratic lawmakers and a Los Angeles-based El Salvadoran activist warned Wednesday.
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Most illegal aliens freed on bail, own recognizance
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Border Patrol agents arrested nearly 100,000 non-Mexicans illegally crossing into the United States through Mexico over the past eight months and let the vast majority of them go free on bail or their own recognizance, immigration officials told a U.S. Senate panel Tuesday.
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Ex-Muslim calls on her people to reject hatred
Monday, June 6, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Nonie Darwish was 8 years old and living in Gaza when her father, an Egyptian military officer who led Arab attacks inside Israel, was killed by assassins.
"Which one of you will avenge your father's death and kill Jews?" Darwish recalls friends, family and neighbors asking her and her siblings.
Her life could not have taken a more different path. Today Darwish, 56, makes her home in the San Fernando Valley and runs an "Arabs for Israel" Web site.
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Word's out on area spelling champ in D.C. for nationals
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Castaic teen Christian Medina has been spelling words aloud in his sleep.
It's understandable, considering the 13-year-old will compete beginning today against 272 other students from around the nation in the 78th annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
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Baby Lift adoptees plan return to Vietnam
Sunday, May 22, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| All her life, friends asked Tiffany Goodson if she planned to locate her birth mother or learn more about her role in the mass airlifts of infants to America from the overflowing orphanages of Saigon during the Vietnam War.
"I don't care -- maybe someday," came Goodson's usual reply.
Recently, that changed.
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Bill highlights Mexican policy
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Killing a law enforcement officer and fleeing the country would become a federal crime under legislation introduced Monday by two Southern California congressmen seeking to highlight Mexico's extradition policy.
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L.A. air base closure could be huge blow
Thursday, May 12, 2005 Dana Bartholomew - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Fear is running high among local officials that the Defense Department on Friday will recommend closing the Los Angeles Air Force Base in the South Bay -- a potentially crippling blow to the regional economy and the high-tech research infrastructure.
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Gang bill is OK'd
Thursday, May 12, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Deriding violence-prevention programs as "arts and crafts for gangsters," the House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that will put more gang members in prison for longer, mandatory federal sentences.
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Stiffer gang penalties
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Congress wants prosecutors to go after the Crips and the Bloods the same way they go after the mob.
And a sweeping gang bill the House plans to vote on today would do that by expanding the federal government's role in fighting street violence while ratcheting up mandatory punishments for most violent crimes -- a proposal that has provoked deep rifts among area lawmakers along conservative-liberal lines.
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Arnold pledges to save trees
Friday, May 6, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed Thursday that the Bush administration's attempt to open a third of national forests to logging, mining and development will not diminish protections for California's remote forestlands.
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Backdoor license plan
Friday, May 6, 2005 Harrison Sheppard - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Stymied in his efforts to allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, has found a backdoor way around the ban with a proposal that would exempt undocumented motorists from vehicle-impound laws.
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Local leaders out to keep base in L.A.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| San Fernando Valley business leaders pounded the halls of Capitol Hill on Tuesday for any good news they could find about the fate of Los Angeles Air Force Base in the pending round of military base closures.
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License bill puts Dems on grill
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Despite fierce opposition from immigration advocates in the Los Angeles area, some House Democrats from Southern California said Monday that they plan to vote for an $81 billion Iraq war spending bill that also bars illegal immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses.
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Middle class split on savings plan
Monday, May 2, 2005 Lisa Friedman - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Greg Amour is skeptical, at best, of President George W. Bush's proposal to consolidate individual retirement accounts. The general manager of a sales office in Whittier, Amour said the administration's previous tax cuts haven't put more money in his pocket, and he doubts the new proposal would help him save for retirement.
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