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AP - After an election-year repudiation by a GOP-led House committee,
 President Bush hopes to avoid getting steamrolled in the Senate over a
 deal allowing a Dubai-owned company to take control of some U.S port
 operations.

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AP - Six months after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush got a close-up
 look Wednesday at the mountains of debris, the abandoned homes and the
 boarded-up businesses that are shocking reminders of the "pain and
 agony" New Orleans endures still.

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AP - Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff says President Bush knew him well
 enough to joke with him about weightlifting. "What are you benching,
 buff guy?" Abramoff said Bush asked him. The president has said he
 doesn't know Abramoff.

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AP - Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the war in Iraq on
 Wednesday, urging a troop drawdown as the United States enters its
 fourth year of conflict in Iraq.

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AP - Former Gov. Ann Richards said Wednesday she has cancer of the
 esophagus and will undergo treatment at the world-renowned M.D.
 Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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AP - After a long battle with Congress that went down to the wire
 President Bush will sign a renewal of the USA Patriot Act, a day before
 16 major provisions of the old law expire.

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AP - Treading water in the ocean. That's how one lawmaker describes what
 Republicans, nervous about the November elections, are doing with
 President Bush's budget proposals this year.

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Reuters - A House of Representatives committee on Wednesday rejected the
 Bush administration's new initiative to promote democracy in Iran as it
 approved $71 billion in emergency funds mostly to finance the wars in
 Iraq and Afghanistan.

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AP - A federal judge ruled that the Bush administration is violating a
 1992 law aimed at increasing the country's use of alternative fuel
 vehicles.

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AP - In his first major public appearance since being sworn in, Supreme
 Court Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged being a little nervous
 during his first day on the job.

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