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- Senate rejects move to weaken Sarbanes-Oxley
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The US Senate has rejected an attempt to weaken Sarbanes-Oxley. The huge vote comes after some heavy lobbying by groups calling on the politicians to leave it alone.
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- Senate Democrats pledge funding to continue Iraq war
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  In a declaration of support for an extended and open-ended US occupation of Iraq, two leading Democratic senators told national television audiences Sunday that under no circumstances would the Democratic congressional majority cut off funding for the war.
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- Feingold and Reid Seek to End Iraq War by March 2008
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  Our bill would require the president to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops out of Iraq in 120 days, with redeployment to be completed by March 31, 2008. After March, funding for the war in Iraq would be cut off, with three narrow exceptions -- targeted counterterrorism operations, protection of U.S. personnel and infrastructure, and training and equipping Iraqi forces. In other words, the current military mission in Iraq would be effectively ended.
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- Senate backs March '08 pullout
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  McCain and Liebermann are left at the altar. Senate votes 50-48 to keep timetable in funding bill to Bush.
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- Senate Rejects Democrats’ Call to Pull Troops
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  “The Republicans are rubber-stamping the president’s failed policy. That’s the message here.” says Harry Reid. Yell it from the mountaintops - 48 GOP Senators voted to keep soldiers in Iraq past 2008. Campaign on that in 2008 folks... No need to look up if your GOP Senator voted to keep troops in Iraq - only one didn't. GOP = Support for Bush Iraq Occupation.
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- Johnson's absence threatens Iraq measures - Politics
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The biggest mystery to me of 2007 is why the notoriously cutthroat GOP have simply decided to not try to replace the ill Johnson. Is there prior precedent? Is the governor unsympathetic? Do they know it could happen to McCain as President (ha)? Anyone know? I thought recovering this seat for the GOP would be job #1 for Cheney/Rove.
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- Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal
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  The WaPo investigation into the paperwork hell that faces Iraq soliders trying to get out of Walter Reed Hospital has paid off: the Senate Armed Services Committee to investigate.
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brendajo313 comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

Addressing the Republican convention would be in the true spirit of "reaching across the aisle"... republicans have been doing it for years and it would be a welcome change.

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5:57 am 7/14/08
Jon comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

About time. After the ‘08 elections, we won’t need Joe anymore. If the Republicans can stand him, they can have him.

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11:49 pm 7/13/08
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Democrats' "censure" plan--another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction

I agree . I think censure will just take away the impeachment option in the mind of the public. Lame Feingold.

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10:15 am 7/24/07
Jeff comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

From everything I’ve read the past few years, the problem isn’t just Walter Reed…the entire VA system is underfunded.

When gates says he wants to get to the bottom of this, he must be joking. The problem is the overextension of the U.S. military and the underfunding of veterans affairs by Congress.

It would help if Bush would put forward an honest budget with true accounting for the costs of the Iraq war.

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11:54 am 2/27/07
Kathy comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

TPMmuckraker has the details on the investigation and a summary of Pentagon response (divided) to the story.

If you missed it – ya need to read it. Very sad. Thousands of soliders waiting for disability rulings. One story is especially painful—how our gov’t went out of its way to say IT wasn’t responsible for the soldier’s disability. Too bad he couldn’t have that decision made by a jury of his peers.

I read another report that says the wounded-killed ratio in this war is the highest ever—10-to-1. Vietnam, reportedly 3-to-1. That means a lot of folks are gonna have lifelong care—and our system isn’t set up to handle it. :-/

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1:34 am 2/27/07
Jon comments on:
Senate gridlocks on Iraq war resolution

Really sad to see that the “world’s greatest deliberative body” can’t manage to deliberate the world’s most important issue.

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1:50 pm 2/17/07

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