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Lawmakers await first state funeral
in 30 years
Condolence books,
jelly beans on hand,
and 4 a.m. viewing
By Sarah
Bouchard,
Jonathan E. Kaplan,
Peter Savodnik
and Jim Snyder
House leaders finalized the schedules
last night for today’s memorial service for former
President Ronald Reagan.
Lawmakers will meet on the House floor tonight at 6
p.m. and proceed to the Rotunda at 6:30. The arrival
ceremony starts at 7 p.m. in the Rotunda and will last
an hour. Only current members of Congress can attend
the service, and they will have to stand. There will
be no seating.
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Nominees stalled
by turf battle
By Lauren Shepherd
A jurisdiction battle between two
senators has put the confirmations of two new counterterrorism
officials in limbo.
Both sides had hoped the Senate leadership would step
in to resolve the dispute, but there are apparently
no plans by leadership to do so and the matter may go
instead to the parliamentarian.
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Warner
says Virginia
is competitive for Kerry
By Angie Hu |
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) chops away at a head of
lettuce to help feed
Washington's homeless at the DC Central Kitchen on Thursday.
Photo by John Shinkle
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President Reagan honored in "People's house"
By Geoff Earle The fighter-jet flyover gave an eerie start to President Reagan’s memorial service in the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday night. The poignant missing-man jet formation wasn’t visible from inside. Instead, the noise of the jets reverberated within the dome — only hours after a frantic evacuation of the building caused by an errant plane that had entered restricted airspace in Washington.
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Remembering Reagan
Members of Congress remember the nation's 40th president
this week. Click here
for their remarks.
Clash over torture memo
Citing Constitution,
Ashcroft refuses
Judiciary demand
By Alexander
Bolton
Attorney General John Ashcroft is
refusing to turn over to senators a 50-page document containing
advice from Justice Department lawyers to the CIA asserting
that torturing suspected terrorists may be justified.
Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Edward
Kennedy (Mass.), Joseph Biden (Del.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.),
Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) all pressed Ashcroft
to release the controversial document at a bad-tempered Justice
Department oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary
Committee yesterday.
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FDA likely to approve
Plan B pill
By Bob
Cusack
The Bush administration is likely to reverse
its recent decision on a controversial emergency contraceptive
and make it available over the counter this year, a key House
Republican said.
After meeting last week with Steven Galson,
acting director of the Food and Drug Administration’s
(FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Rep. James Greenwood
(R-Pa.) said he is very confident the agency will make the contraceptive
Plan B available over the counter in 2004.
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