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| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:00:00 EST Lax uranium rules rile ex-regulators |
| Former nuclear regulators, citing terrorism concerns and outraged that the new energy bill passed by Congress reverses existing limits on uranium exports, plan to urge Congress to pass legislation that would restore a 1992 law restricting the amount of uranium that can be released from government inventories and sold in international commercial markets. |
| Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:00:00 EST Chugging along |
| The U.S. economy continues to chug along at a relatively robust pace. Gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 3.4 percent in the second quarter, according to a preliminary estimate from the Commerce Department. |
| Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:00:00 EST CAFTA: Points on the board for Bush |
| So now we can add CAFTA to the list of bills—trade promotion authority in 2001 and 2002, the Medicare prescription drug bill in 2003—that the Republican House has passed by one- or two-vote margins. The House leadership once again took to the floor a measure on which they knew they were short of the 218 majority and went about squeezing out the last votes one by one. This time they had to extend the nominally 15-minute roll call to only 69 minutes. On Medicare/prescription drugs they had to drag it out almost three hours. |
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