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Bush Warns He Would Veto a Combined Spending Package
President Bush excoriated the Democratic Congress Tuesday for “not getting its work done” and warned that he would veto any fiscal 2008 appropriations package that combines defense and veterans’ spending with domestic funding he considers excessive. Full Story
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Tancredo Won’t Be Forgotten
A spokesman for the House Immigration Reform Caucus said Tancredo, the founder of the group, will be sorely mised, but that he divested himself of leadership responsibilities on the issue in Congress a long time ago to make his run for president. Full Story
CQ Health Beat
Panel Recommends CDC Expand Flu Nasal Spray Guidelines
A panel of immunization experts has voted to expand the recommendation for the nasal spray influenza vaccine FluMist to include healthy children from two to five years of age who have no history of asthma or wheezing. Full Story
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Congress Clears Seven-Year Ban on Internet Access Taxes
The House on Tuesday unanimously passed and sent to the White House a bill that would continue the current moratorium on taxing Internet access for seven more years. Full Story
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Bush Selects Peake as Veterans Affairs Secretary
President Bush on Tuesday nominated James Peake, a Vietnam veteran and the Army’s former chief doctor, as Veterans Affairs secretary. Full Story
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Jihad on the Agenda at Middle East Institute Conference
The Islamic world of the not-too-distant future is a place where the greatest threat of Muslim extremism comes not from Arab and Muslim-born jihadists but from Iraqi youths themselves. Where desperately poor Muslim teenagers in Europe dream of waging war against the United States in Iraq. Where once-fringe Islamist groups such as al Qaeda mine the rich recruitment grounds of Western cities. Full Story
Political Trivia
Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., is the youngest of four children of an executive salesman for Uniroyal and a stay-at-home mother who, in search of a more bucolic life, moved from Bergen Countys rapidly building suburbs to a 100-acre farm in Wantage, where they grew greenhouse tomatoes, Yorkshire pigs and Christmas trees. Garretts older brother still raises Christmas trees there. (Source: CQ.com Member Profiles)
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John Cranford
Embargo on the Brain
The idea that trading with Cuba might spur democracy better than shunning it still eludes this administration.
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Tancredo to Retire from House
It’s the White House or bust for Rep. Tom Tancredo, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate who has decided to forgo running for re-election next year in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. Full Story
Dems Choose Jan. 3 for Iowa Caucuses
Iowa Democrats will hold their presidential caucuses for Jan. 3, joining Republicans in holding the kickoff 2008 presidential contest on the earliest ever date for a White House nomination contest. Full Story
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The Senate may vote on the children’s health insurance bill and will conduct a cloture vote on the six-year, $11.4 billion Amtrak bill.
The House is expected to work on bills on small business contracting, Internet tax freedom and placing weather radios in new mobile homes.
House and Senate Commerce panels consider several similar measures, including bills on the do not call registry, and broadband access.
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Her Key to the House
A year into making history as the first female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi is counting on consensus-building to keep her party in power and the gavel in her hand. Full Story
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