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Looking to November
Today's question: Look toward November. What local and state ballot initiatives should we expect to see? How should L.A. voters go in the general election? How do you expect the vote will actually go? Click here to read previous installments from this...Tags: Mississippi, National Government, Democratic Party, San Diego County, California
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Lott to quit Senate only one year into new term
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSen. Trent Lott, a 35-year Capitol Hill veteran who staged a political comeback after losing his Senate leadership post because of racially insensitive remarks, plans to resign from office before the year is out. With his decision, the Senate's No. 2...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Mississippi, National Government, Upper House, Defense
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Drug traffickers use submersibles to ferry narcotics
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was on a routine patrol that the Colombian coast guard stumbled upon an eerie outpost amid the mangroves: a mini-shipyard where suspected drug traffickers were building submarines. Perched on a makeshift wooden dry dock late last month were two 55-...Tags: Police, Addiction, Prices, Terrorism, Tampa
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The politics of saying 'genocide'
MATT WELCH is The Times' assistant editorial pages editor.ON TUESDAY, President Bush will be obliged, by law, to wrap his double-talking mouth around one of the most curiously persistent debates in modern geopolitics: Whether to call a 92-year-old genocide a "genocide." Every April 24 since 1994, the U.S....Tags: National Government, Genocide, Condoleezza Rice, New York Times, International Military Interventions
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Capitol Hill Eats Own Pork
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, Jefferson Smith, now that we need you? A naïf sent to the U.S. Senate on a fluke in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Smith (played by Jimmy Stewart) discovered that his mentor had slipped a provision into a "deficiency bill" to...Tags: David Dreier, National Government, Diamond Bar, San Dimas, Harry Reid
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Congress returns for session's last lag
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — The ousted Republican-led Congress returns to the Capitol this week to try one last time to shorten a long legislative to-do list, while the just-elected members will vote for new leaders in races that could signal the direction the...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Richard W Pombo, National Government, Texas, Democratic Party
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Will the pork stop here?
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vows to make reform of congressional earmarks a priority of his tenure, arguing that members need to be more transparent when they load pet projects for their districts into federal spending...Tags: Interior Policy, Heavy Engineering, National Government, Transportation, Pension and Welfare
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'Screamers'
Special to The TimesWhen individuals learn of brutality on an almost unfathomable scale, what is the appropriate response? The title of director Carla Garapedian's documentary, "Screamers," refers to a resolute determination to bring genocide to light. The film follows...Tags: Maryland, Movies, Adolf Hitler, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Music
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Religion on Welfare
BROOKE ALLEN is the author of the just published "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers."RELIGIOUS organizations throughout the country are accorded countless exemptions from taxes and federal regulations. A New York Times article this month claimed that since 1989, more than 200 such special arrangements, protections and exemptions have been...Tags: Mississippi, National Government, Religious Conflicts, Texas, Baptist
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1 Fix, More Problems for GOP
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — Rep. Tom DeLay's decision to stop battling for his former House leadership job helps remove a huge distraction from Republican efforts to recover from a stormy 2005 that put President Bush and the party on the defensive. But DeLay's...Tags: National Government, Texas, Missouri, Corrupt Practices, Ohio
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DeLay Ends His Drive to Regain Post
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, indicted in Texas last fall and under scrutiny in a blossoming political scandal on Capitol Hill, abandoned on Saturday his effort to regain his leadership post. His decision touched off a race...Tags: Trials, National Government, Social Sciences, Texas, Baptist
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Congressman Is Gaining a Name in Foreign Affairs
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — According to conventional wisdom, there's no surer way for a young congressman to destroy his career than delving into foreign policy. Voters don't care about it, the old hands say, and time spent on what's happening overseas is time...Tags: National Government, Democratic Party, Genocide, Upper House, Defense
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