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Shooting spurs Pentagon review of personnel procedures

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of servicemembers who pose a threat to their fellow troops. Along with that 45-day examination, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates also ...

From ANN SCOTT TYSON AND BEN PERSHING, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Pentagon,  U.S. Senate,  Robert Gates,  Barack Obama,  Joe Lieberman

Lieberman opens Hill's first public hearing on Fort Hood

""My way of operating here . . . is to work with the administration and proceed cooperatively as opposed to going into an attack mode," said Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I), seen here with Sen. Susan Collins (R). (Marvin Joseph/the Washington Post) ...

From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joe Lieberman,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Susan Collins

Fort Hood hearing focuses on homegrown threats, 'political correctness'

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hopes to probe what the government knew about shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and whether federal agencies either missed key warning signs or failed to communicate with each other ...

From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  U.S. Senate,  Joe Lieberman,  US Department of Defense,  White House

Byrd becomes longest-serving member of Congress

considered to be the result of genius is more the result of persistence, perseverance and hard work," McConnell said. "To be a good senator, he said, one has to work at it. And now, longer than anyone else in our history, he's lived by those words." ...

From BEN PERSHING WASHINGTON POST, The San Jose Mercury News,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Robert Byrd,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid

W.Va.'s Byrd becomes longest-serving member of Congress

Byrd already had the title of longest-serving senator, achieving that distinction in 2006, but now he also holds the record for combined service in both the House and Senate, surpassing Carl Hayden (D), the former senator and House member from Arizona. ...

From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Byrd,  Barack Obama

Hutchison to stay in Senate as she runs in Texas

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From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kay Bailey Hutchison,  Rick Perry,  U.S. Republican Party

Ethics committee looking at Jackson's pursuit of Senate seat

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From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jesse Jackson, Jr. (politician),  Barack Obama,  Office of Congressional Ethics,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Rod R. Blagojevich

House subcommittee created to investigate Rep. Maxine Waters

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From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Maxine Waters,  United States Department of the Treasury

Democrats on House committee lock out Republicans

The House of Representatives, ever the rowdier and more populist of the two chambers of Congress, has been the scene of incessant partisan warfare in 2009, as each party appears to be in a near-constant state of outrage over the behavior of the ...

From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Darrell Issa

Rep. Wexler Resigning for Think-Tank Job

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From BEN PERSHING, The Washington Post,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Wexler,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Charlie Crist

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