They Know How to Caucus

DES MOINES — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had a decision to make. After someone in her campaign leaked a memo late last month suggesting that she skip the Iowa caucuses, the New York Democrat needed to show that she was committed to winning the crucial first contest on the presidential nominating…
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Edwards Says Bush’s Anti-Terror Campaign Is Just Three Little Words

After dismissing the phrase “war on terror” as a useless slogan, former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) outlined his plan to fight terrorism yesterday.
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To Menendez, Bill Sells Families Short

Sen. Robert Menendez is a first-generation American in a family of Cuban immigrants, a man who has referred to his parents as the embodiment of the American Dream. The New Jersey Democrat says the country’s broken immigration system must be fixed, and last year he backed an unsuccessful reform bill.
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Breach Shows Borders Still Vulnerable

U.S. authorities last week blamed tuberculosis carrier Andrew Speaker’s illicit reentry to America on a single point of human error, faulting a Champlain, N.Y., inspector who failed to detain him as instructed by a computer alert.
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House Moves Against Embattled Jefferson

Monday’s indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) touched off an ethics battle in the House yesterday, with leaders from both parties moving quickly against Jefferson even as they accused each other of having no real interest in tighter ethics rules.
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Lobbyists United In Dismay Over Disclosure Rules

The lobbying disclosure bill passed by the House last week hadn’t been voted on yet when Kenneth Gross stood at the head of a block-long conference room in New York, supplying 148 lobbyists and lawyers with the new congressional definition of a friend.
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Giuliani’s Ties to Black New York Troubled

NEW YORK — Once the cultural capital of black America, Harlem had reached the bottom of decades of decline by the late 1980s, with streets full of abandoned houses, virtually an open-air crack cocaine market and thousands of violent crimes each year. It took the collaboration of people including…
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McCain Sets Self Apart in Debate

MANCHESTER, N.H., June 5 — Sen. John McCain of Arizona found himself isolated Tuesday night as he staunchly defended controversial immigration legislation against a barrage of criticism from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, who argued that the bill is deeply flawed and sho…
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Nominee to Coordinate War Offers Grim Forecast on Iraq

President Bush’s nominee to be war czar said yesterday that conditions in Iraq have not improved significantly despite the influx of U.S. troops in recent months and predicted that, absent major political reform, violence will continue to rage over the next year.
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Giuliani, McCain to Pass on Iowa Straw Poll

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., June 6 — Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) announced Wednesday that they will not compete in the first real contest of the 2008 presidential campaign, the nonbinding Ames, Iowa, straw poll in August.
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