House leaders giving DeLay time to reclaim post
Monday, December 12, 2005 Scott Shepard - - Austin American-Statesman
| Although there has been some rumbling among Republicans about permanently filling the majority leader post Tom DeLay vacated, House leaders are moving to give the embattled lawmaker from Sugar Land more time to clear away his legal problems and reclaim the post.
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McCain Won't Compromise on Torture Ban
Monday, December 5, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Austin American-Statesman
| Sen. John McCain, a prisoner of war who was tortured in Vietnam, said Sunday he will refuse to yield on his demands that the White House agree with his proposed ban on the use of torture to extract information from suspected terrorists.
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When avian flu hit Texas, the system worked
Sunday, November 20, 2005 Mark Lisheron - - Austin American-Statesman
| Less than two years after avian flu drove Texan Butch Jackson out of the chicken business, a related but different strain of flu killed two people in China last week.
Jackson's debacle has lessons to impart for a world worried that these deaths presage a pandemic.
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Concern About Iraq, Torture Fuels Protest
Monday, November 21, 2005
AP's ELLIOTT MINOR - - Austin American-Statesman
| The Rev. Jerry Zawada has already served a federal prison term for trespassing on government property to protest a Fort Benning school he blames for human rights abuses in Latin America.
On Sunday, the 68-year-old Catholic priest risked another one.
Zawada was among at least 41 protesters arrested during an annual protest calling for the closing of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Corporation, formerly known as the Army's School of the Americas, organizers said Sunday.
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DeLay requests documents from prosecutors
Friday, November 11, 2005
AP's APRIL CASTRO - - Austin American-Statesman
| Attorneys for indicted Rep. Tom DeLay asked a Texas prosecutor Thursday for any internal notes or memos in which the writer objected to money laundering and conspiracy charges leveled against the former House majority leader.
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Congressman Weighs in on Iraq's Chalabi
Friday, November 11, 2005
AP's BARRY SCHWEID - - Austin American-Statesman
| The chairman of the House subcommittee on national security said Thursday he would not be surprised if Ahmad Chalabi, a deputy Iraqi prime minister, gave Iran information that the U.S. would prefer to be withheld.
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Why some did not share fate of DeLay
Sunday, November 6, 2005 Laylan Copelin - - Austin American-Statesman
| U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay. Texas Association of Business President Bill Hammond. Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick.
To their critics, they represent the boogeyman, the braggart and the bagman of a Republican conspiracy to steal the 2002 elections with corporate cash hidden from the public. To their defenders, they are victims of a political witch hunt by a Democratic prosecutor whose sprawling, three-year investigation wrongly tainted the three with trumped-up allegations.
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Judicial selection spinning in DeLay case
Thursday, November 3, 2005 Laylan Copelin - - Austin American-Statesman
| Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson late Thursday afternoon named a senior Democratic judge from San Antonio to hear the conspiracy case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, despite concerns that Jefferson had too many ties to DeLay's political committee to be impartial.
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Bush's Ratings Still Sink Over War, Court
Friday, November 4, 2005
AP's TOM RAUM - - Austin American-Statesman
| President Bush's job approval has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency amid worries over the Iraq war, a fumbled Supreme Court nomination, the indictment of one White House aide and uncertainty about another.
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Newsview: Bush Allies Say He's Lost His Way
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Austin American-Statesman
| The building blocks of President Bush's career — his credibility and image as a strong and competent leader — have been severely undercut by self-inflicted wounds, leading close allies to fret about his presidency. They say he's lost his way.
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Gunmen Kill Iraq Vice President's Brother
Sunday, October 30, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Austin American-Statesman
| Gunmen killed the brother of Iraq's Shiite vice president Sunday and a top trade ministry official escaped assassination in another part of the capital, while the death toll in a major truck bombing the day before rose to 30. A U.S. Marine was fatally injured in another bombing.
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Plame Aims to Shun Spotlight in Leak Case
Sunday, October 30, 2005
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Austin American-Statesman
| Joe Wilson says it was mutual love at first sight when he and Valerie Plame spotted each other at a crowded diplomatic reception eight years ago. Well, yes and no.
For Plame, the stars in her eyes that night were quickly followed by a LexisNexis computer search the next day to make sure the guy with all the fantastic stories about his life as a globe-trotting diplomat was really legit.
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White House Waits Another Day in CIA Probe
Friday, October 28, 2005
AP's PETE YOST - - Austin American-Statesman
| Working against the clock, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald weighed criminal charges against two top presidential aides at the end of a two-year investigation that put the White House in a state of high suspense Thursday night.
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Voters could end marriage for all?
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 W. Gardner Selby - - Austin American-Statesman
| "I do" could become "by golly, we didn't" for more than 4 million married couples in Texas if voters approve a clumsily worded proposed constitutional amendment, opponents said Monday.
But it's not so, replied a Dallas-area lawyer who helped write Proposition 2, which would ban same-sex marriages and will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.
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Newsview: Cheney Again at Center of Drama
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Austin American-Statesman
| It should surprise nobody that Vice President Dick Cheney is at the center of another firestorm. He's got his hands in just about everything at the White House.
Now the administration's Mr. Fix-It faces a sticky political, if not legal, situation with the latest leak in the CIA leak investigation.
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Hearing set for DeLay bias charge
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Laylan Copelin - - Austin American-Statesman
| A retired Democratic judge has been given the job of deciding whether political donations disqualify state District Judge Bob Perkins from hearing the criminal case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land.
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DeLay fighting on two fronts
Sunday, October 23, 2005 Chuck Lindell - - Austin American-Statesman
| Minutes after his first indictment landed last month, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay was already on the offensive with an aggressive two-track defense — one legal, the other political, and both aimed at the same target, Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.
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Envoy: North Korea Could Face Isolation
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
AP's NICK WADHAMS - - Austin American-Statesman
| North Korea will find itself in a "wilderness of isolation" if it walks away from a landmark agreement to give up its nuclear program, but will see a host of economic and diplomatic opportunities if the deal sticks, the chief U.S. envoy for talks with the country said Tuesday.
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GOP: DeLay Remains a 'Powerful' Adviser
Friday, September 30, 2005
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Austin American-Statesman
| Indicted Texas Rep. Tom DeLay will serve as a "very powerful adviser" to the Republican leadership while he battles the conspiracy charge that forced him to step aside as House majority leader, a GOP spokesman said Thursday.
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Crime-Fighter Dogs Beg for Congress' Aid
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's REBECCA CARROLL - - Austin American-Statesman
| Congress went to pot and to the dogs Wednesday.
Jacko, Quan and Skeet — law enforcement canines — were brought before the House Homeland Security Committee to demonstrate their skills. They performed flawlessly, finding hidden explosives and a bag of marijuana that had been placed in a desk.
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Bush's Words on Iraq Echo LBJ in 1967
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's DOUGLASS K. DANIEL - - Austin American-Statesman
| Bush officials bristle at the suggestion the war in Iraq might look anything like Vietnam. Yet just as today's anti-war protests recall memories of yesteryear, President Bush's own words echo those of President Johnson in 1967, a pivotal year for the U.S. in Vietnam.
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Fed Boosts Rates, Downplays Katrina Fears
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's JEANNINE AVERSA - - Austin American-Statesman
| The Federal Reserve boosted interest rates to the highest level in four years Tuesday despite the effects of Hurricane Katrina, saying fallout from the storm didn't pose a "persistent threat" to the nation's economic health.
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Katrina a Textbook in What Not to Do
Monday, September 19, 2005
AP's CALVIN WOODWARD - - Austin American-Statesman
| Katrina is what classrooms call a teachable moment. Everyone is picking through the mistakes from all levels of government for lessons that will spare more lives and property when disaster visits the country again.
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Federal aid will not cover added teachers, textbooks
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 W. Gardner Selby - - Austin American-Statesman
| Federal emergency aid will not pay for Texas school districts to hire additional teachers or purchase textbooks for out-of-state students enrolled in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But officials are holding out hope for other federal dollars to cover the costs of serving the estimated 60,000 sudden transplants expected in Texas schools.
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FEMA Head Bears the Brunt of Katrina Anger
Thursday, September 8, 2005
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Austin American-Statesman
| He's been called an idiot, an incompetent and worse. The vilification of federal disaster chief Michael Brown, emerging as chief scapegoat for whatever went wrong in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, has ratcheted into the stratosphere. Democratic members of Congress are taking numbers to call for his head.
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Abbas Vows to Hunt Down Ex-Chief's Killers
Thursday, September 8, 2005
AP's IBRAHIM BARZAK - - Austin American-Statesman
| Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas vowed to hunt down the killers of a powerful former security chief whose gangland-style slaying Wednesday laid bare Gaza's raging power struggles just days before Israel hands over control of the coastal territory.
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Crews Plug Levee Break a Week After Storm
Monday, September 5, 2005
AP's Doug Simpson - - Austin American-Statesman
| A week after Hurricane Katrina, engineers plugged the levee break that swamped much of the city and floodwaters began to recede, but along with the good news came the mayor's direst prediction yet: As many as 10,000 dead.
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Newsview: Bush Takes Safe Path on Roberts
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Austin American-Statesman
| President Bush chose the path of least resistance in nominating John Roberts as chief justice, acting with unusual haste as the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina sap his political strength. He was the safest choice Bush could make.
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Bush Views Katrina Devastation From Plane
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Austin American-Statesman
| President Bush flew over areas of the South devastated by Hurricane Katrina after holding a video conference Wednesday with top aides to discuss federal relief efforts. "It's totally wiped out," he told aides at one point during the hastily-arranged inspection flight.
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U.S. Envoy: Iraq Constitution May Change
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Austin American-Statesman
| In a dramatic shift, the U.S. ambassador raised the possibility Tuesday of further changes to Iraq's draft constitution, signaling that the Bush administration has not given up its campaign to push through a charter that will be broadly accepted.
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Iraq war debate flares in Crawford
Sunday, August 28, 2005 Pat Beach - - Austin American-Statesman
| Staring each other down from opposite sides of a widening political chasm, thousands of Iraq war protesters and their pro-Bush counterprotesters gathered here near the president's home. Not surprisingly, they didn't agree on much.
But on a day hot enough to loosen the tar on a country blacktop, no major clashes came to pass.
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Experts Warn Debt May Threaten Economy
Sunday, August 28, 2005
AP's ROBERT TANNER - - Austin American-Statesman
| You owe $145,000. And the bill is rising every day. That's how much it would cost every American man, woman and child to pay the tab for the long-term promises the U.S. government has made to creditors, retirees, veterans and the poor.
And it's not even taking into account credit card bills, mortgages — all the debt we've racked up personally. Savings? The average American puts away barely $1 of every $100 earned.
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Israel Completes Gaza Strip Withdrawal
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
AP's Ravi Nessman - - Austin American-Statesman
| Israeli forces armed with riot gear, saws and wire cutters evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements Tuesday, completing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a corner of the West Bank.
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Armstrong rides the 'Tour de Crawford' with President Bush
Sunday, August 21, 2005
AP's NEDRA PICKLER - - Austin American-Statesman
| It's no yellow jersey, but President Bush on Saturday presented Lance Armstrong with another shirt to show off his biking experiences — a red, white and blue T-shirt emblazoned "Tour de Crawford."
The leader of the free world and the world's biking master rode for 17 miles on Bush's ranch for about two hours at midmorning. Bush showed Armstrong the sites of the ranch that he calls "a little slice of heaven," including a stop at a waterfall midway through the ride.
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Bush: All Options Open for Iran Nukes
Sunday, August 14, 2005
AP's Ramit Plushnick-Masti - - Austin American-Statesman
| In a stern warning to Iran, President Bush said "all options are on the table" if the Iranians refuse to comply with international demands to halt their nuclear program, pointedly noting he has already used force to protect U.S. security.
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Sunnis Want Federalism Shelved for Now
Sunday, August 14, 2005
AP's Qassim Abdul-Zahra - - Austin American-Statesman
| With one day left to finish Iraq's new constitution, Sunni Arabs asked Sunday that the divisive issue of federalism be put off until next year so the draft can be completed on time, warning they would not accept provisions for federated states.
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Al Gore's TV Network to Make Debut Monday
Sunday, July 31, 2005
AP's DAVID BAUDER - - Austin American-Statesman
| Much of the talk around Al Gore's new Current TV network has been broadly philosophical, like the former vice president's statement that "we want to be the television home page for the Internet generation." With its debut Monday, Current TV will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks — on whether its programming can hold a viewer's interest.
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Gonzales Says He Told Card About CIA Probe
Sunday, July 24, 2005
AP's NEDRA PICKLER - - Austin American-Statesman
| Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday that he notified White House chief of staff Andy Card after the Justice Department opened an investigation into who revealed a covert CIA officer's identity, but waited 12 hours to tell anyone else in the executive mansion.
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Padilla Lawyer: Charge Him or Release Him
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
AP's LARRY O'DELL - - Austin American-Statesman
| A lawyer for Jose Padilla, an American accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," went before a federal appeals court Tuesday and demanded the U.S. government either charge his client with a crime or set him free.
But a Bush administration lawyer told the court that the president must have authority to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists who come to the United States intent on killing civilians.
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Karl Rove: The man behind the curtain
Sunday, July 17, 2005 KEN HERMAN - - Austin American-Statesman
| Though some believe the legend is larger than the truth, Karl Rove has built a career out of high-profile ballot-box success against a perception of political skullduggery.
Like many of the best who play politics for keeps, Rove's arsenal includes strategic use of the off-the-record chat with reporters.
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Bush Seeks 'Mainstream' Court Nominee
Sunday, July 17, 2005
AP's DARLENE SUPERVILLE - - Austin American-Statesman
| President Bush gave the nation several clues Saturday about the person he will nominate for a seat on the Supreme Court, except for the most important one — a name. In his weekly radio address, Bush said his eventual nominee will be a "fair-minded individual who represents the mainstream of American law and American values."
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Judge Dismisses Navy SEAL Suit Against AP
Thursday, July 14, 2005
AP's GARY GENTILE - - Austin American-Statesman
| A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against The Associated Press and one of its reporters that alleged the news organization violated privacy and copyright laws by publishing photos of Navy SEALs posing with Iraqi prisoners.
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Internet Audio Craze Spurs a Land Grab
Thursday, July 14, 2005
AP's GREG SANDOVAL - - Austin American-Statesman
| The runaway popularity of blogging, which has turned everyday people into online news outlets, caught the media establishment off guard. The industry is trying not to make the same mistake with podcasting — which lets nearly anyone "broadcast" on the Internet.
Everyone from Disney to Newsweek to National Public Radio is now offering podcasts, and Apple Computer, Inc. last month made it a whole lot easier to find them and download them to iPods.
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Presidents Not Always Happy With Justices
Monday, July 4, 2005
AP's HOPE YEN - - Austin American-Statesman
| Dwight D. Eisenhower called his Supreme Court appointments the "biggest damn fool mistake I ever made." Richard Nixon unwittingly named the future liberal author of Roe v. Wade. George H.W. Bush's choice now evokes a GOP grumble, "No more Souters!"
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Bork's 1987 Hearings on Senators' Minds
Monday, July 4, 2005
AP's PETE YOST - - Austin American-Statesman
| In the eyes of still-bitter conservatives, Robert Bork is the symbol of the Senate's advice-and-consent power gone haywire. To liberals and the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bork's confirmation hearings revealed extreme views that warranted rejection of the Supreme Court nominee.
The memory of Bork's tumultuous Senate hearings 18 years ago are very much on the minds of senators as they call for dignified confirmation proceedings for whomever President Bush chooses as retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's successor on the high court.
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Papers: Lobbyist, Partner Bilked Tribes
Thursday, June 23, 2005
AP's Suzanne Gamboa - - Austin American-Statesman
| Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partner created tax-exempt groups to funnel money to themselves from Indian tribes trying to build political support for their casinos, according to documents released at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
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Iraq Oil Sales Concern Security Council
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
AP's NICK WADHAMS - - Austin American-Statesman
| Members of the U.N. Security Council on Monday expressed concern over Iraq's handling of oil sales since the transfer of power from the U.S.-led coalition authority, after an audit reported shoddy accounting and mismanagement.
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Protests Decry Vietnam Leader's U.S. Trip
Sunday, June 19, 2005
AP's CURT WOODWARD - - Austin American-Statesman
| Phan Van Khai, the first Vietnamese prime minister to visit the United States since the end of the war 30 years ago, called on Vietnamese emigres to help strengthen ties between the two countries as he began a weeklong tour aimed at improving relations with Washington.
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CAFTA Takes Step Forward in Senate
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Austin American-Statesman
| A major free trade agreement with Central American nations moved forward in the Senate Tuesday, although senators put off for another day how to deal with the sugar industry opposition that is the biggest obstacle to passage.
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Convicted Exec Says Pension Oversight Lax
Thursday, June 9, 2005
AP's MATTHEW DALY - - Austin American-Statesman
| The former president of an Oregon investment firm involved in the largest pension fraud in U.S. history said Thursday that federal officials did little to stop the scheme despite investigating the firm for nearly a decade.
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Man With Stained Chain Saw Let in to U.S.
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
AP's MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - - Austin American-Statesman
| On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.
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