GOP Falls Short on Spending Promises in Budget Week
The House prepares to approve 91 billion in debt financed funding for Iraq and hurricane relief while the Senate reviews a plan lacking Bush tax and spending cuts. Senate must vote to raise the debt to almost 9 trillion. Senators Cornyn Brownback and Specter critique the plan amid favored defense and education funding changes.
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Arlen Specter
Pennsylvania
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Chertoff says China won’t take back U.S. deportees
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said China refuses to repatriate about 39,000 Chinese citizens denied entry to the United States, adding to a backlog and detention costs. He noted China admitted 800 nationals last year, a small dent. He also announced new detention facilities to house entire families attempting to bring children to avoid jail.
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China
United States
Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff
Associated Press
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Prayer to the Virgin Mary Nine-Day Candle Request
A brief notice inviting devotion, asking Catholics to pray nine Hail Marys over nine days while lighting a lit candle and to request three favors from the Virgin Mary. The short item emphasizes pious activity and sacred petition.
Lawmakers Question Oil Executives Over Merger Mania
Senators pressed the six largest oil and refining firms at a Senate Judiciary hearing about reduced competition amid industry consolidation. Exxon Mobil’s Rex Tillerson defended scale, noting $36 billion profits, while a Public Citizen study cited that five refiners controlled 56 percent of U.S. gasoline in 2004 and ten firms 85 percent.
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Rex Tillerson
Exxon Mobil Corp
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