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...petition was filed by Cambridge Rep. Alice K. Wolf in the wake of a 2000 ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court that struck down a 1992 city ordinance that allowed domestic partners a variety of benefits including visitation rights, access to confidential records and health coverage...
...caving into Nimbyism in Florida, the Bush administration has decimated its own energy plan," said Rep. David Vitter, (R-La.) "I think this really just shuts down the opportunity to do anything productive to reduce our dependence on foreign oil." Oil companies are particularly disappointed to lose a "stovepipe" portion of the area that extended straight up toward Mobile and the tip of the Florida panhandle, thought to contain rich natural-gas deposits in shallow water...
...REP. STEVE LARGENT Strikes out eight, leads Repubs to 9-1 win over Dems. Baseball's been bery, bery good to G.O.P...
...Norwood hadn't been the only congressman the White House was ignoring. House Republicans hoping to get a jump on the Democrats in their chamber with a patients rights bill weren't getting much attention from the administration either. Republican Rep. Ernie Fletcher, a doctor, had been talking up his patients bill with White House aides for several months, but getting little more than mild interest. Fletcher's measure was nearly identical to Frist's, except that Fletcher eventually added a provision allowing patients to sue HMOs in state courts in a limited number of cases. Fletcher attached the state...
...Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who plays foil to House Government Reform Committee Chairman and Clinton Administration Inquisitor Dan Burton, R- Ind., has asked Burton several times if he'll spearhead an investigation into alleged Republican wrongdoing - specifically, the situation of senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, who met March 12 with Intel's chief executive and two of its lobbyists even as he still held more than $100,000 in company stock. Rove has denied any impropriety, with White House officials saying that the conversation was about how the company could support the president's policies, not about...