washingtonpost.com - TennesseeTennesseeSantorum Urges Majority Leader to Answer Critics- May 9, 2005 Sen. Rick Santorum warns Tom DeLay Sunday that he needs to "lay out what he did and why he did it" if he is going to put an end to questions about his travel and dealings with lobbyists.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42422-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Frist to Participate in Anti-Filibuster Telecast- May 9, 2005 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's decision to appear in a national telecast with prominent Christian conservatives -- who are calling for new Senate rules to seat federal judges and are assailing "the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left" -- drew fire yesterday from Democratic leaders.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Ex-AOL Executive Guilty In Wire Fraud- May 9, 2005 A former America Online executive pleaded guilty Thursday in Alexandria federal court to defrauding the Dulles-based Internet company of $100,000 through a phony contract for an outside consultant who did no work and then shared the fees with him, prosecutors said.-The Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35506-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... Specter Advances Measure to Settle Asbestos Claims- May 9, 2005 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) moved ahead yesterday with his effort to resolve the national asbestos litigation tangle, introducing a bill that would create a $140 billion trust fund to pay victims' claims while barring some smokers from benefits and curbing payouts to trial lawyers.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3117-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... Multiple State Licenses Helped Conceal History- May 9, 2005 After physician Joseph S. Hayes was charged in 1999 with fondling female patients -- but before he was convicted -- he simply pulled out a different state license and moved. He left Tennessee and got a job at a wellness center in South Carolina, where he had held a license since 1973.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44900-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... The Complexity of Taiwan's Ties With Lobbyists- May 9, 2005 Taiwan's relationships with its Washington lobbyists are sometimes as complicated and tortuous as its relationship with the U.S. government.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... An Endangered Susquehanna- May 9, 2005 Teeming with raw sewage, animal waste and fertilizer runoff, yet responsible for half the Chesapeake Bay's fresh water, the Susquehanna River is the most endangered river in the United States, according to a report released today by American Rivers, a national conservation group.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48296-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Senate GOP Sets Up Filibuster Showdown- May 9, 2005 Moving the Senate closer to a historic confrontation, the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee endorsed two of President Bush's most controversial nominees to federal appellate court, and Democrats vowed once again to use the filibuster to block their confirmation.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6621-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... Frist Likely to Push for Ban on Filibusters- May 9, 2005 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is all but certain to press for a rule change that would ban filibusters of judicial nominations in the next few weeks.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54661-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Cheney Enters Fray on Judicial Nominees- May 9, 2005 The White House intervened in Congress's bitterly partisan debate over federal judges, as Vice President Cheney vowed to break a tie vote if necessary to change Senate rules and ban filibusters of judicial nominees.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/t... |