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Teen abortion down in state since notification law passed
Thursday, March 9, 2006
LAURA BEIL - - Dallas Morning News
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Abortion rates among Texas minors have dropped, apparently because of the state's parental notification law, although it may be driving some older girls into second-trimester terminations.
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Senator pans Texas' $2 billion storm aid request
Thursday, March 9, 2006
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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An influential Missouri senator urged Senate colleagues Wednesday to vote against a Texas request for $2 billion in hurricane relief funding, likening its reception to more than 450,000 Katrina evacuees to those of a "paid companion."
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DeLay advances to face Lampson
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Indicted and stripped of power, Rep. Tom DeLay went into Tuesday's GOP primary seeking another chance. Voters gave it to him.
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Leader: Immigration agency can handle guest worker plan
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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At his Senate confirmation hearing a few months ago, the man nominated to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the agency wasn't prepared to administer a guest worker program that could bring millions of illegal immigrants out of the shadows.
"The systems that exist right now wouldn't be able to handle it," Emilio Gonzalez told the Senate Judiciary Committee last October.
Now ensconced at the agency, the Bush administration appointee has a different take on a program the White House is pressing Congress to adopt.
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Bush plans trip to vote in Crawford
Monday, March 6, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN and G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush added a side trip to his Texas ranch to vote in Tuesday's Republican primary after aides apparently forgot to order an absentee ballot.
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Senators open debate on immigration changes
Friday, March 3, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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Senators opened a high-stakes debate Thursday over how to fix a deeply dysfunctional immigration system, offering clashing policy prescriptions to deal with an illegal immigrant population that tops 11 million.
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Justices signal support for most redrawn districts
Thursday, March 2, 2006
ALLEN PUSEY and TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Texas Democrats took their bitter redistricting struggle to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday with the hope of changing boundaries, crafted by Republicans two years ago, that altered the balance of power in the state's congressional delegation.
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Video: Bush got storm warning
Thursday, March 2, 2006
AP's Margaret Ebrahim and JOHN SOLOMON - - Dallas Morning News
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In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.
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High court to hear Texas remap arguments today
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today about congressional districts drawn up by the Legislature in 2003, it will consider whether an inherently political process may have become too political in Texas and disenfranchised voters.
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Rest of nation has plenty to say in Wright debate
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
ROBERT DODGE - - Dallas Morning News
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The debate over whether to allow long-haul flights from Dallas Love Field may seem like a local issue to many North Texans, but that's not how it looks from Omaha.
"I view it as a national issue for the rest of the country," said Don Smithey, executive director of the Omaha Airport Authority.
Across the nation, airports and communities have been taking sides in the fight between Southwest Airlines and American Airlines over whether to overturn the Wright amendment.
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VP accepts blame in shooting accident
Thursday, February 16, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Vice President Dick Cheney accepted fault for his hunting accident Wednesday and called it one of the worst days of his life.
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Border sheriffs seek reinforcements
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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Texas border sheriffs pleaded Tuesday for more federal help to confront Mexican drug trafficking cartels that are arming themselves with more powerful weaponry and deploying tactics that pose an ever-greater danger to U.S. law enforcement.
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Bush budget seeks more border aid
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN and G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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For Texas, President Bush's new $2.77 trillion budget would mean tighter border security and a looser social safety net.
In a spending plan unveiled Monday, the president proposes more money next fiscal year for Border Patrol agents but less for some anti-poverty programs.
And hospitals could be hit by rollbacks in coverage for the elderly and poor.
Texas defense contractors, on the other hand, could see a pickup in aircraft orders from the Pentagon.
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Gonzales, senators spar over rationale for domestic spying
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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The Bush administration's defense of its controversial domestic surveillance program was met with skepticism Monday as senators from both parties challenged Attorney General Al Gonzales' assertion that the initiative is legal and constitutional.
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Saudis unaware of plan
Monday, February 6, 2006
JIM LANDERS - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush's goal of weaning the U.S. off Middle East oil came as a surprise to Saudi Arabia, which has tried to engage the Bush administration in an energy dialogue aimed at stabilizing global oil markets, the Saudi ambassador said.
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Justice filing defends Texas remap
Monday, February 6, 2006
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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The Bush administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ignore arguments by minority voters in Texas that a contentious redistricting by Republican state legislators in 2003 violated the Voting Rights Act.
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Republicans choose Boehner to replace DeLay
Friday, February 3, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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The Tom DeLay era ended Thursday as House Republicans picked Ohio Rep. John Boehner as their new majority leader – rejecting a DeLay protégé in favor of a self-proclaimed "reform" candidate.
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A rising Democrat could challenge the president on the domestic front
Thursday, February 2, 2006
CARL P. LEUBSDORF - - Dallas Morning News
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The contrast could not have been greater:
On center stage, second-term President George W. Bush, basking Tuesday night in the bright lights in the cavernous chamber of the House and the cheers of Republicans as he delivered his annual speech on the State of the Union.
And an hour later, some 100 miles down Interstate 95 in Richmond, freshman Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, speaking without audience or pageantry as he stood before a fire in the state's cozy Executive Mansion to present the Democratic Party's alternative take on the nation's state.
Unsurprisingly, their messages were sharply different, as each sought to sell the agenda that would bolster his party's position in the political battles to come.
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Democrats mock DeLay's fundraising totals
Thursday, February 2, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Democrats taunted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on Wednesday for managing only a bare fundraising lead over rival Nick Lampson, and Republicans countered that the challenger has kept pace only with help from Hollywood liberals such as Barbra Streisand.
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House clears budget cuts
Thursday, February 2, 2006
JAMES KUHNHENN - - Dallas Morning News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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The House on Wednesday narrowly approved $39 billion in budget savings over five years in a party-line vote that would rein in some federal spending by increasing costs for many Americans, including college students, the elderly and the working poor.
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Do rivals want DeLay's backing?
Sunday, January 29, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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The House majority leader contest will be settled Thursday, and Rep. Tom DeLay has yet to offer an endorsement.
Given that all three contenders have pitched themselves as agents of "reform," distancing themselves from the Sugar Land Republican and the problems that forced him to step down, that may not be such a disappointment.
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Congressman relives POW experience in Vietnam
Friday, January 27, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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For Rep. Sam Johnson, seven years in the "Hanoi Hilton" were more than enough. He vowed never to return to Vietnam, and for 33 years, he never did. But Thursday, home from a congressional trip, he recounted an hourlong visit to the infamous prison.
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Bush: I'm not close to Abramoff
Friday, January 27, 2006
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush acknowledged on Thursday that he's undoubtedly had his picture taken with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but insisted, "I've never sat down with him and had a discussion with the guy."
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DeLay: Justice says I'm not probe target
Friday, January 27, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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In recent months, Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, has insisted he's not a target of the Justice Department public corruption investigation involving a one-time ally, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
He's now gone a step further, telling conservative columnist George Will in a column published Thursday that the Justice Department has informed his lawyers that he is not a target of the probe.
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Bush PR blitz races to frame spying debate
Thursday, January 26, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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The Bush administration raced this week to defend its warrantless domestic spying program, with several aims in mind, experts say: Win over a conflicted public; force Democrats into an arena that plays to GOP strength; and head off talk of impeachment and special prosecutors.
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Rumsfeld: Army not strained to breaking point
Thursday, January 26, 2006
RICHARD WHITTLE - - Dallas Morning News
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday rejected two new reports — including one ordered by his own office — warning that the Iraq war has strained the Army to the breaking point.
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State disaster plans' first test: the feds
Friday, January 13, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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Standing in the heart of a ruined New Orleans four months ago, President Bush promised Americans careful scrutiny of local readiness plans.
Time's almost up for the states and 75 biggest cities to deliver their catastrophic response plans to the Homeland Security Department. Those missing Tuesday's deadline – and Texas says it won't – jeopardize their chance for a slice of the $2.5 billion in federal homeland security grants that will be doled out this year.
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Texas' House GOP delegation split on question of leadership
Thursday, January 12, 2006
GROMER JEFFERS JR. and TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Texas' big House Republican contingent remained mostly up for grabs Wednesday in the scramble to replace Tom DeLay as majority leader, after the state's lawmakers were unable to settle on a candidate.
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Government accused of trying to bypass horse-slaughter law
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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The Bush administration is trying to end-run Congress and circumvent a new law designed to halt the slaughter of horses at meatpacking plants in North Texas and Illinois, congressional sponsors and animal-protection groups charge.
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Justices ponder free speech, government accountability
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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The seeds of William G. Moore's case against the U.S. Postal Service were sown two decades ago, when he was the up-and-coming chief executive of Dallas-based REI Inc.
Tuesday, Mr. Moore sat in the U.S. Supreme Court, as five postal investigators who charged him in a bribery conspiracy case in 1986 asked the justices to grant them immunity from a lawsuit he filed.
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DeLay ends leadership fight
Sunday, January 8, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Unable to shake his legal troubles and with colleagues in open revolt over a widening corruption scandal, Rep. Tom DeLay gave up his claim Saturday to the powerful job of House majority leader.
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Experts say propaganda vital to U.S. goal in Iraq, but limits tested
Friday, January 6, 2006
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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On April 6, 1917, the nation entered World War I. It was not a popular decision, and one week later, President Woodrow Wilson launched one of the most effective propaganda campaigns in U.S. history.
The fervor that followed bound a diverse population of European immigrants together as a dedicated, fighting whole.
It also stirred an Illinois mob to beat and lynch a German-American miner, provoked 14 states to ban the speaking of German in public schools and compelled newspapers to refer to outbreaks of "Liberty" measles among children.
Within every war there is a war of words, a battle for hearts and minds designed both to bolster morale on the home front and to deflate the enemy. And in recent weeks, that battle has come into focus for the Bush administration and its Iraq policy.
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Bush, DeLay, others vow to donate cash tied to Abramoff
Thursday, January 5, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush and other recipients of Jack Abramoff's largesse kicked his mud from their boots Wednesday, vowing to give to charity the money the disgraced lobbyist gave them – before he confessed to defrauding clients, trying to bribe lawmakers and cheating the IRS.
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Capitol Hill nervous about ties to lobbyist
Thursday, January 5, 2006
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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Fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff's deal to cooperate in an influence-peddling investigation surely sent a chill Tuesday through Capitol Hill, where the Republican plied dozens of politicians with campaign contributions and favored some with lavish trips, Super Bowl tickets and pricey meals in exchange for legislative help.
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His boss may support Perry, but Strayhorn's son standing behind Mom
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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The White House is starting the new year with a new political fission.
President Bush will be supporting the Republican nominee for governor in Texas, presumably Gov. Rick Perry, now that challenger Carole Keeton Strayhorn is running as an independent.
And her son – the president's press secretary, Scott McClellan – will be supporting her. But he won't be voting for her, because he's now registered in Virginia, where he lives in a suburb outside Washington.
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Could DeLay fall with friend?
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and lobbyist Jack Abramoff had been friends for years, trading easily on each other's success. One rose to the pinnacle of power in Congress. The other became the most sought-after lobbyist in town. They built a politically potent network of former aides, lobbyists and comrades-in-arms.
The question hanging over Washington on Tuesday: Could Mr. Abramoff's plummet and plea deal drag down his longtime ally?
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Abramoff's plea puts Congress in crosshairs
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Dallas Morning News
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose activities spawned a congressional corruption scandal, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felonies and pledged to cooperate in a criminal investigation edging closer to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and other lawmakers.
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3 races to watch for U.S. House
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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When the dust clears in November, there's every chance that nine out of 10 Texans will have the same representative in Congress as they do today.
Even so, Texas is sure to be the epicenter of this year's congressional races, thanks to some unique factors, especially the trial of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Democrats' efforts to leverage his ethics problems into a national wave. Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken interest in Texas redistricting, casting a pall of uncertainty over the elections.
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Texas redistricting figure's nomination angers Democrats
Saturday, December 17, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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In a move that inflamed minority activists and Democrats, President Bush on Friday named a Justice Department lawyer who played a pivotal role in the Texas redistricting fight to the Federal Election Commission.
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Bush: U.S. will press on in Iraq
Monday, December 19, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush, still striving to allay angst at home over the war in Iraq, warned Sunday night of more hard times ahead as Iraqis struggle to build the first constitutional democracy in the volatile Middle East.
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Long past her NY debut, Clinton in a cushy spot
Monday, December 19, 2005
AP's MARC HUMBERT - - Dallas Morning News
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What a difference six years makes.
In 1999, Hillary Rodham Clinton was skewered as a carpetbagger from Illinois and Arkansas who would get her comeuppance at the hands of the mayor of New York City. Today, she appears to be coasting to a 2006 Senate re-election victory that could set her up for a White House run two years later.
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Hail to the chiefs
Monday, December 12, 2005
MARY C. SCHNEIDAU - - Dallas Morning News
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Carl Sferrazza Anthony's front yard in Los Angeles sports an elflike George W. Bush lawn ornament. It is one of the tamer pieces of his "kooky" presidential memorabilia collection; the things that are a "little frightening" are in storage.
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Moderates suggest it's time to replace DeLay
Friday, December 9, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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The latest signal that time may be running short for Rep. Tom DeLay to clear his name came Thursday, when a moderate House member from New York became the first committee chairman to suggest that Republicans can't leave the majority leader post filled indefinitely by an understudy.
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GOP wants student-loan funding cut
Monday, December 12, 2005
ROBERT DODGE - - Dallas Morning News
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Half of Texas college students and their families, who receive financial aid for college, could confront rising costs under Republican budget plans.
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GOP may not wait on DeLay
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Rep. Tom DeLay's partial court victory wasn't enough to squelch talk Tuesday among House Republicans that the time is nearing to replace him – permanently – as majority leader.
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Texas border will gain 452 agents
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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The Border Patrol will dispatch 452 more agents to Texas next year as part of a deployment of 1,700 new personnel to bring greater control to the porous U.S.-Mexican border.
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Little drama as high court gets abortion cases
Thursday, December 1, 2005
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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WASHINGTON – The first abortion cases of the John Roberts era made their way to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, and the chief justice appeared ready to guide both back to where they came from.
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Bush offers border plan
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
DAVID McLEMORE - - Dallas Morning News
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TUCSON, Ariz. – President Bush attempted Monday to calm conservatives' concerns about his immigration policy in a balancing act of a speech that paired tougher border security with a retooled guest worker program.
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FEMA extends deadline to move evacuees
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
ROBERT DODGE - - Dallas Morning News
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Texas and nine other states will have a little extra time – until Jan. 7 – to move thousands of hurricane evacuees out of hotels and motels and into less expensive housing, the Bush administration announced Tuesday.
But the extension comes with a hitch: State officials must submit a plan by Dec. 15 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency showing how they will meet the new deadline to move families into apartments, duplexes and single-family homes.
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Bush eases up on war critics
Monday, November 21, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Predicting a long, divisive debate back home over the war in Iraq, President Bush declared Sunday that an early withdrawal would have "terrible consequences" for the U.S. and Iraq.
"And that's not going to happen so long as I'm president," he promised.
Still, he appeared eager to change the tone of the debate, which the White House had in part stoked with its own stridently partisan rhetoric.
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Army mechanics doing double time
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
RICHARD WHITTLE - - Dallas Morning News
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are creating boom times for the Corpus Christi Army Depot, the biggest helicopter hospital in the world.
Bullet-riddled, sand-scarred choppers in various stages of surgery cram the depot's cavernous hangars. Roughly 3,500 workers buzz around yellow metal repair stands, working feverishly to get wounded machines fit to return to combat.
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Schools make pitches for Bush library
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
JIM FRY - - Dallas Morning News
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Values may have been the theme of the day Tuesday as three of the four Texas universities vying to host President Bush's library made their official pitches.
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Top Washington lobbyists plan fundraiser for DeLay
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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An A-list of Washington lobbyists will throw a fundraiser Thursday for Rep. Tom DeLay, a sure sign the Sugar Land Republican still has friends despite an indictment that forced him to step down as House majority leader.
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President promotes freedom
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush sought Wednesday to re-engage the U.S. in Asia, outlining an enhanced partnership with the region designed to foster greater stability, prosperity and opportunity.
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Asia Diary: Schieffer still Bush's right-hand man
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Tom Schieffer is President Bush’s go-to guy here.
The new U.S. ambassador to Japan greeted the president when Air Force One touched down Tuesday night and has been at his side throughout his visit to this ancient Japanese capital, offering a guiding hand in the sometimes tricky business of international diplomacy.
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An ally, an agenda for Bush in Asia
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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At first blush, they seem an odd couple – President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, two leaders cultures apart and half a world away.
Maybe it's their fondness for baseball that binds. Or maybe their personalities just click. Whatever it is, Mr. Bush, who touches down in Japan Tuesday at the start of a weeklong, four-country tour of Asia, counts Mr. Koizumi among his closest worldly friends – so much so that the prime minister was a fixture in the president's re-election stump speeches.
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Bush 'tricked' Americans into going to war, Biden charges
Monday, November 14, 2005
GROMER JEFFERS JR. - - Dallas Morning News
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As the administration on Sunday rejected assertions that President Bush misled the American people about Iraq, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden charged that history would judge the president harshly about his actions before and during the war.
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White House spokesman faces full-court press
Sunday, November 13, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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The questions fly his way day after day, sometimes with quite a zing.
Reporters have been pressing – sometimes hammering – White House press secretary Scott McClellan for answers to a growing list of questions surrounding the leak of a CIA officer's identity.
Invariably, his response is the same: This is a serious investigation. It's continuing. No comment.
But as the questions have become more pointed, Mr. McClellan has faced a buzz saw in the White House briefing room, in large part because he had assured reporters early in the inquiry that top White House officials were not involved in the leak case.
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Senators hear flight-or-fight arguments
Friday, November 11, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Two of the airline industry's fiercest competitors did their best Thursday to charm and persuade senators eyeing the Wright amendment.
Each painted the other as a monopolistic predator and itself as an innocent victim.
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Activist Reed says he choreographed Cornyn's push to shut tribal casino
Saturday, November 12, 2005
AP's Suzanne Gamboa - - Dallas Morning News
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Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed said in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.
The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation, along with his partner Michael Scanlon, on allegations of defrauding six Indian tribes of about $80 million between 2001 and 2004. The e-mail, along with about a dozen others, was released last week as part of the inquiry.
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Hutchison foe in spotlight
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has the best poll numbers of any Texas politician, a huge campaign account and a safe job from a Republican state. Yet Tuesday night, the Democratic leadership of the Senate joined forces against her, co-hosting a fundraiser for her little-known challenger, lawyer Barbara Ann Radnofsky.
Why would top Democrats line up to help a long shot? Part of the answer stems from the string of GOP setbacks, from the war in Iraq to recent indictments of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, and Rep. Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader.
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Bush has a friendly visit to Panama
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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It could have been a tangled moment for President Bush on the last day of his five-day Latin America tour.
There overlooking the Bay of Panama stood Mr. Bush, son of the 41st president, who ordered the invasion of this Central American nation 16 years ago, and Panamanian President Martin Torrijos, son of the late military dictator, Omar Torrijos, the singular political force here for more than a dozen years. And it was all quite cordial.
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Bush leaves Argentina without free-trade deal
Sunday, November 6, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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It was a no sale for President Bush.
He had come to the fourth Summit of the Americas eager to round up more support for the stalled U.S.-backed proposal for a sweeping Free Trade Area of the Americas that would cut trade barriers from Canada on the north to the tip of Chile on the south.
But summit leaders could not agree Saturday on how and when to restart the trade talks, and Mr. Bush left during an afternoon break to head to his next stop in Brazil.
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Top jurist stands by role in DeLay case
Saturday, November 5, 2005
CHRISTY HOPPE - - Dallas Morning News
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Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson said Friday that he's sticking with his decision to name a judge in the Tom DeLay money laundering trial, even though he expects criticism for getting involved in a case in which he has close political ties to key players.
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Bush lays out plan to take on bird flu
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
BRUCE NICHOLS - - Dallas Morning News
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If the bird flu struck tomorrow, there wouldn't be much hope of stopping the first wave of illness and death, says a prominent Texas researcher who co-edited a national report that helped energize the federal government.
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Bush's second attempt is stalwart conservative
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
DAVID JACKSON - - Dallas Morning News
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Capitol Hill braced Monday for political warfare over the Supreme Court, as President Bush tapped conservative appeals Judge Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Political veteran rejoining Cornyn's team
Sunday, October 30, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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you follow Texas politics closely, you already know who Dave Beckwith is. He's one of the guys responsible for the current order of things in Austin and in Washington – a consigliere whose quick wit has skewered many a foe and, on occasion, his own career.
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Scandal adds to Bush's struggle
Saturday, October 29, 2005
DAVID JACKSON - - Dallas Morning News
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Still fighting a real war in Iraq, the Bush administration now faces a renewed political battle over how the whole thing started.
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Experts: Cheney will retain inside track
Saturday, October 29, 2005
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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The indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser comes as the latest blow for a White House already struggling to regain its footing after a series of crises.
But political experts predicted Friday that Lewis Libby's indictment on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and false statements in the investigation of a CIA operative's unmasking wouldn't permanently weaken the vice president.
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Libby indicted, resigns; Rove spared
Sunday, October 30, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was charged Friday with obstruction of justice and lying to a grand jury and federal agents in the two-year CIA leak investigation that has shaken the White House.
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Back to business for Rove
Monday, October 31, 2005
WAYNE SLATER and G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Through George W. Bush's political career, Karl Rove has been the indispensable man.
And for now, at least, he's still at the president's side.
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U.S. toll in Iraq hits 2,000
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
DAVID JACKSON - - Dallas Morning News
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As the Iraq war hit a grim benchmark Tuesday with the announcement that the death toll for American troops had reached 2,000, President Bush said his commitment to victory had not changed.
The political environment in which he is conducting the war, however, is very different from how it was earlier in the conflict.
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Security heads in a stiffer direction at northern border
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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The stream of U.S.-bound 18-wheelers and passenger vehicles slows to a near halt approaching the customs booths at the Peace Bridge, rolling through unobtrusive radiation detectors that arch over the inspection lanes.
The detectors, designed to sniff out nuclear and radiological hazards, offer silent witness to how the business of commerce and security has changed immensely along what's known as the world's largest undefended border.
In the four years since the Sept. 11 attacks, technology has come to the border in a big way, particularly in the Niagara Falls-Buffalo region, which is a major gateway for trade and traffic between the U.S. and Canada.
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Senators to scrutinize Miers family land sale
Monday, October 24, 2005
GRETEL C. KOVACH and DAVID JACKSON - - Dallas Morning News
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A judgment that initially granted Harriet Miers' family 18 times the assessed value for Dallas land needed for a freeway ramp will be scrutinized during the review of her Supreme Court nomination, a Senate staff member said Sunday.
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Ex-Texas bar chiefs back Miers
Saturday, October 22, 2005
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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Influential Texans have been going out of their way to show support for the uncertain Supreme Court nomination of Dallas native Harriet Miers.
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Among blacks, Bush free-falls in poll
Friday, October 21, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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The finding was startling: Just 2 percent of black Americans believe President Bush is doing a good job.
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In Miers nomination, Bush was looking for 'fresh outlook'
Friday, October 21, 2005
DAVID JACKSON - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush said Thursday that the controversy over Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers stems largely from her lack of experience as a judge – though that is one of the reasons he nominated her.
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Senators find Miers' questionnaire lacking
Thursday, October 20, 2005
DAVID JACKSON and ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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The Senate Judiciary Committee returned its questionnaire to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers on Wednesday, calling her first set of responses incomplete, inadequate and even insulting.
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Oh, Canada! Oil companies pursue a fuel's paradise
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
JIM LANDERS - - Dallas Morning News
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A Canadian grandmother named Nancy Denton just might save your lifestyle.
Mrs. Denton drives a 400-ton dump truck filled with oil sands at this vast strip mine owned by Syncrude Canada Ltd. Along with her husband, Allan, and a brace of other drivers, she moves half a million tons a day of black, sticky earth to crushers, washers, pipelines and coking towers that turn it into crude oil.
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2 jurists reportedly say they feel Miers would reject Roe
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
DAVID JACKSON and ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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Though Harriet Miers' judicial philosophy remains a mystery, two Texas judges close to her reportedly told skeptical conservatives they believe the Supreme Court nominee would vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
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Wright hearing in works
Friday, October 14, 2005
ROBERT DODGE - - Dallas Morning News
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The fight over long-haul flights at Love Field may be gaining steam again.
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Conservatives fear Rove missed boat on Miers
Thursday, October 13, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN and WAYNE SLATER - - Dallas Morning News
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Karl Rove has long had an eye for judges.
In Texas, President Bush's political guru was a central figure in moving the state Supreme Court from Democratic control to Republican, transforming the bench into a more conservative, business-friendly body. At the White House, he's been a fixture in helping choose federal judges, all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Talk of Miers 'deal' raises concerns
Monday, October 10, 2005
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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Senators from both parties said Sunday that they plan to question whether White House adviser Karl Rove may have given inappropriate "back room assurances" to secure conservative support for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers.
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Critics see a spoils system in the White House
Monday, October 10, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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Michael Brown got his job through the good ol' boy network, and he's proud of it.
Now, Harriet Miers has been branded a crony by some opposing her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Home on Sunday, Miers attends church twice
Monday, October 10, 2005
ED HOUSEWRIGHT and SAM HODGES - - Dallas Morning News
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Home for the weekend from Washington, D.C., where her Supreme Court nomination is in a swirl of controversy, Harriet Miers attended not one but two church services in Dallas on Sunday.
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Mixed feelings about a second tour
Monday, October 10, 2005
RICHARD WHITTLE - - Dallas Morning News
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About 35 percent of 4th ID troops have already served one tour in Iraq. Seven percent have done a turn in Afghanistan. The rest are largely untested.
Their attitudes vary widely.
Some want to go. Most are anxious. When they discuss it, they seldom mention defending freedom or spreading democracy. Instead, they talk about being there for the soldiers beside them or the troops they lead.
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Senator sees sexism, elitism at root of Miers criticism
Friday, October 7, 2005
DAVID JACKSON - - Dallas Morning News
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White House officials aren't the only ones suggesting that criticism of Harriet Miers is rooted in sexism or elitism.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., accused conservatives Thursday of a "double standard."
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House GOP duo tangle over gas-crunch proposal
Thursday, October 6, 2005
TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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On the eve of debate Friday on an energy bill pitched as the answer to the gas crunch, the chairman of the House Science Committee argued that energy Chairman Joe Barton's plan helps the oil industry far more than consumers and should be killed.
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Intense times at Supreme Court
Monday, October 3, 2005
ALLEN PUSEY - - Dallas Morning News
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The U.S. Supreme Court opens its 2005-06 term today with a new chief justice and a slate of thorny issues: parental notification for abortion, religious freedom, campaign finance, assisted suicide and, of course, Anna Nicole Smith.
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DeLay and prosecutor clash as rivals, peers in tenacity
Monday, October 3, 2005
WAYNE SLATER and TODD J. GILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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They are different men, one a red-state politico who scaled the heights of national power and the other a blue-county prosecutor with a penchant for quoting Yeats.
But acquaintances of Rep. Tom DeLay and Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle say the two share one important trait that will fuel their coming legal showdown: an unwillingness to back down from a big fight.
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Brown blames Louisiana
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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Ousted FEMA director Michael Brown offered an aggressive defense Tuesday of the agency's response to Hurricane Katrina, blaming a "dysfunctional" Louisiana leadership for infighting and hesitant decision-making that spiraled the relief operation into chaos.
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Bush makes his presence known
Sunday, September 25, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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President Bush dropped down three floors to the state's emergency operations bunker Saturday for a firsthand report on Hurricane Rita and to salute those who are working in her wake to restore essential services and return residents home.
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The Texan at Rice's right hand
Sunday, September 25, 2005
G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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He's had a tomato hurled his way in Mexico. He's been shoved to the wall by security guards in Sudan. And then, there's the invasion of Iraq.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's senior adviser, Jim Wilkinson, picks up a copy of retired Gen. Tommy Franks' book, American Soldier , and points to the back jacket photo of the retired general walking through the ruins of one of Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palaces.
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House GOP opens Katrina inquiry
Friday, September 23, 2005
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT - - Dallas Morning News
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Even as another hurricane hurtled through the Gulf of Mexico, House Republicans launched an investigation Thursday into the "largely abysmal" government response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Former White House budget official arrested
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
MICHELLE MITTELSTADT and G. ROBERT HILLMAN - - Dallas Morning News
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A former high-ranking Bush administration budget official was arrested Monday on charges of lying and obstructing a federal investigation into his business dealings with a lobbyist identified as Jack Abramoff.
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From N. Korea: an agreement and a demand
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
JIM LANDERS - - Dallas Morning News
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North Korea pledged Monday to eliminate its nuclear weapons and nuclear programs in exchange for energy and security, but a day later it demanded that the U.S. give it a light-water nuclear reactor before it rejoins the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and ends its weapons program.
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For Roberts, 1 question remains
Friday, September 16, 2005
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