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Holder: Terrorists Won’t Be Released Into United States

By | 05.07.09 | 8:29 pm

Faced with bipartisan resistance to the idea of releasing any of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised a Senate committee that he would not release any suspected terrorists into the United States, CNN reports.

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Sifting Through Specter’s New Committee Powers

By | 04.28.09 | 3:43 pm

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told reporters Tuesday afternoon that he’s worked out an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that will allow the Senate’s newest Democrat to be seated on committees as if he’d entered the upper chamber in 1980 as a Democrat rather than a Republican.

Byrd Steps Down as Appropriations Chairman

By | 11.07.08 | 3:07 pm

Sen. Robert Byrd, the 90-year-old West Virginia Democrat and the Senate’s in-house constitutional scholar, is stepping down as head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Politico reported today. Byrd said:

I have been privileged to be a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee for 50 years and to have chaired

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