HOUSE MINORITY CALLS FOR ROVE'S SUSPENTION
Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) calls for the suspension of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's security clearances based on the acknowledgment that he leaked the identity of an intelligence officer, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 13, 2005. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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U.S. oil and natural gas should stay in the domestic market to ensure regional energy security, two East Coast Democratic lawmakers said.
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to restrict spending on federal agency conferences and limit the number of workers who can participate in them.
Democratic lawmakers in the United States introduced a measure that would require oil companies to reveal how much they spent on campaign contributions.
More than two-thirds of the onshore and offshore acreage leased for oil and natural gas exploration remains idle, the U.S. Department of Interior said.
A U.S. congressman says he wrote to the Pentagon two months ago about a military mortuary's practice of dumping troops' cremated body parts in a landfill.
Legislation introduced in Congress would give cash bonuses to U.S. counties and states that switch to paper ballots by the November election.
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman said he won't reveal specifics about the panel's closed-door hearing with former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Groups representing officials at the state and local levels are petitioning Congress to nix a bill that would require paper records for electronic voting.
A federal lawsuit tries to block the Defense Department from closing Fort Monmouth, N.J., a base on the Jersey Shore.
The "Frist filibuster" entered its seventh day at Princeton University Monday to protest a Republican plan to limit filibusters in the U.S. Senate.
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