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Senate rejects bid to restrict Guantanamo trials
Havana :: Cuba | 27 days ago
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The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged with involvement in the September 11 attacks to stand trial in a military court rather than a criminal court. Congress has voted several times this year to restrict...
Tags: Lindsey Graham, Senate, Obama, military commission, federal courts, senator rejected, Guantanamo Bay, senator vote
Senate keeps pet projects in spending bill
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The Senate refused Tuesday to jettison thousands of pet projects from a large spending bill...Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona led the attempt to delete the earmarks. Taxpayers for Common Sense says there are 8,570 congressional earmarks in the...
Tags: Senate, John McCain, spending bills, Barack Obama, Washington, Mr. Obama, billion omnibus, billion spending, senator vote
Haitian prime minister ousted over food prices
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 year ago
Credibility Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's Parliament has voted to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis following deadly protests over rising food prices. Food is available in Haiti, as seen in this market Friday, but very expensive in an impoverished nation. Senator...
Tags: Haitian Senate, Haiti Senate, Haitians, prime minister, food price, food riots, president rene, Jacques Edouard Alexis, senator vote
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