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A Democratic senator is delaying the nomination of Michael Chertoff as Homeland Security secretary to protest the Justice Department's refusal to provide a secret FBI memo on terror suspect interrogations. Chertoff is still expected to win Senate approval when lawmakers vote on his nomination Tuesday. But Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., warned Thursday that the document denial thwarts congressional oversight. "We should make the point during this nomination that we're being denied a document that may relate to the nomination itself," said Levin, a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The memo _ and the ensuing delay _...

Bush gives country away Posted: January 15, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com President Bush's plan to legalize 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens – maybe considerably more – is one of the most irresponsible, dangerous, reckless proposals to come out of Washington in my lifetime. And that's saying a lot. In my lifetime, I have witnessed: wage-and-price controls imposed by Richard Nixon; the greatest expansion of unconstitutional, immoral wealth-transfer programs in the history of our country; the use of the Internal Revenue Service by President Clinton to harass and intimidate political adversaries; the sacrifice of more than...