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AP - Republican congressional leaders had hoped to curtail bipartisan
 outcries over a United Arab Emirates-based company's pending takeover
 of some U.S. port operations by brokering an agreement for a new
 investigation of the deal's potential security risks.

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AP - Republican governors are openly worrying that the Bush
 administration's latest stumbles -- from the natural disaster of
 Hurricane Katrina to those of its own making on prescription drugs and
 ports security -- are taking an election-year toll on the party back
 home.

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AP - The White House on Monday rejected the call by more than a dozen
 House Democrats for a special counsel to investigate the Bush
 administration's eavesdropping program.

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AP - Sen. Robert Byrd, the dean of the Senate and its resident
 constitutional expert, counts only a few regrets in his 48-year Senate
 career: filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act, voting to expand the
 Vietnam War, deregulating airlines.

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AP - Reacting to a new book quoting Karl Rove as saying she will be the
 2008 Democratic nominee for president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said
 Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist "spends a lot
 of time obsessing about me."

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AP - Republican governors and gubernatorial hopefuls briefly put aside
 worries that Bush administration stumbles could hamper their chances
 with voters this fall to address a more immediate concern: the need for
 cash to fund their races.

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AP - Eleven cities have shown interest in playing host to the 2008
 Democratic National Convention, twice the number of cities that applied
 to get the 2004 gathering.

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AP - Senators who sip lobbyists' wine or savor their hors d'oeuvres
 might soon have to report it, and disclose the cost on their official
 government Web site.

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AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will tour the
 Sacramento, Calif., area to see if federal help is needed to prevent a
 Katrina-style disaster there, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday.

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AP - Former stripper turned weight-loss promoter Anna Nicole Smith will
 face the scales of justice on Tuesday, a Supreme Court showdown with
 millions of dollars on the line.

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