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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department asked a federal court Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by 31 House members challenging President Bush's authority to withdraw the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The United States officially left the treaty in June, six months after Bush announced his intentions to do so. The plaintiffs are all Democrats, except for one independent who usually votes with Democrats. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, the lead plaintiff, has said the president must first seek the consent of Congress before pulling the United States from the treaty. In a court document seeking dismissal...

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DeLay: Democrats Practicing Politics of Economic Destruction Leaders Should Restore Confidence, Not Talk Down Economy To: National Desk Contact: Stuart Roy or Jonathan Grella 202-225-0197 WASHINGTON, July 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) spoke out against the Democrats' strategy of 'talking down' the stock market and slow-walking corporate accountability and pension security legislation -- actions that hurt working Americans' retirement savings. Democrat leaders have said that through these tactics they can possibly reap political benefits in November. "Now is the time for leaders to help instill confidence in our economy and confidence in our markets so...

<p>The FBI, in the midst of a massive reorganization in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, yesterday hired the top information and communications official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as its new chief information officer.</p>

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The following letter was sent on June 27 by the chairman of the Camden, Maine Democratic Municipal Committee to its membership (the letter has been edited for this forum): Dear Camden Democrats: As many of you know, when I volunteered for this position I said I would not be interested in running a rubber-stamp committee that blindly toed the standard party line. My own politics are progressive, to the point of conflict with much of what the state and national organizations practice, especially as embodied in the DLC and in the current makeup of the DNC. I understood this going...

Democrats.com: Bush Avoids All Responsibility for Sept. 11; BuckStopsThere.com Launched With Events in SF, Berkeley To: Metro Desk Contact: David Lytel of Democrats.com, 202-248-0339 WASHINGTON, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democrats.com, the largest independent community of Democrats, will launch an offensive this week to force President George W. Bush to take responsibility for the diplomatic and intelligence failures that led to the attacks of September 11. So far, Bush has refused to hold anyone responsible for the failures that provoked the terrorist attack and allowed it to succeed. Instead, Bush announced a plan to reorganize minor government agencies - but...

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http://www.marksfriggin.com/news.htm#fri Recap of the fight is at this URL. Stutering John wins in a unanimous decision: 48-47, 48-47, 50-46.

Gephardt To Hold Town Hall Meeting With Former Enron Employees In Houston To: Assignment Desk, Daybooks Contact: Erik Smith or Kim Molstre, 202-225-0100 both for House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt News Advisory: Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt and several members of the Houston Congressional delegation will meet with former Enron employees to discuss pension protection, corporate accountability and Social Security privatization. WHEN: Tuesday, May 28 10 a.m. WHERE: Antioch Missionary Baptist Church 500 Clay Street Houston, Texas

For its political survival, the Republican Party must court the Hispanic vote. Totally shut out among black voters and badly defeated among Hispanics, the GOP is having a hard time finding enough white voters to overcome the deficit. With blacks and Hispanics casting one vote in four, a Republican must win two-thirds of the white vote to have a shot at 51 percent in the average election. And the situation will only get worse for the Republican Party. The Hispanic population, which swelled from 7 percent to 12 percent of the U.S. population in the past 10 years, is forecast...

Does anyone want to post likes here to threads from the beginning of our military response to the attacks of 9/11?

The White House has been stymied so far in making a compelling case to take military action against Iraq. But according to a retired Air Force colonel who played a key role in shaping U.S. military strategy in the first Gulf War, the issue of what technological advances mean for modern warfare has muddied the dialog. In fact, the radically improved capabilities of air power require a major perspective shift that actually tries to spare the lives of enemy troops and concentrate on making precision strikes against infrastructure, according to John Warden. "If we look back at the Gulf War,...

Rep. Matsui Delivers Democratic Radio Address To: National Desk Contact: Erik Smith or Kori Bernards, 202-225-0100, both of the Office of the House Democratic Leader WASHINGTON, March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is the Democratic radio address, delivered by Rep. Robert T. Matsui (CA-05): "Hello, I'm Congressman Robert Matsui from California. Thank you for joining me this morning. "Social Security is the most successful program in American history. It celebrates what is best about the American spirit. We have decided, as a nation, to stand together and to help one another, especially when life is most difficult. We grant peace...

Huh. Not what I expected. On Friday, I ridiculed the use and abuse of Big Brother. It wasn't the greatest column I've ever written, but I certainly didn't anticipate — given my readership — that it would divide people so sharply. In near-equal portions readers agreed with the column or believed that I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. The e-mails in agreement were generally short — "good column," "nice job," "here's another example of what you're talking about…" — but the e-mails in disagreement were lengthy disquisitions on my misreading of Orwell, the omnipresent threat of totalitarianism,...

In a little-noticed speech last October, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer noted that nowhere in the Constitution did the nation's founding fathers directly address the notion of campaign contributions. Nonetheless, Breyer went on to say that campaign finance laws do help the Democratic process and "further the kind of open public political discussion that the First amendment also seeks to encourage, not simply as an end but also as a means to achieve a workable democracy." Breyer's remarks received scarce attention at the time he made them at New York University's Law School in the aftermath of the Sept. 11...

WASHINGTON, March 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The House today by a 275-137 margin passed legislation providing critical visa and border security safeguards. These protections, already passed by the House without opposition on December 19, 2001, have been held up by Democratic opposition in the Senate. quot;This legislation provides vital changes to our immigration laws to fight terrorism and prevent exploitation by some illegal aliens who wish to harm Americans. It builds upon enhanced data sharing requirements in the PATRIOT Act and includes key changes to our immigration laws such as requiring new biometric visas and strengthening the foreign student tracking...

<p>March 8, 2002 -- HOWARD Stern says a report that CBS is considering him as a replacement for David Letterman is "right on the money" and says he'd take the job "provided the details of the money are worked out." Stern also claims CBS had ulterior motives for leaking that information to Internet columnist Matt Drudge - and that Letterman is behind the leaks about his headline-making negotiations with ABC.</p>

"If the money is right, I'll take the job," Stern told the DRUDGE REPORT Thursday morning...