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Oversight Committee on Administration's Medicaid Reductions
March 3, 2008
From the Oversight Committee:

The Administration's Medicaid Regulations: State-By-State Impacts

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today Chairman Henry A. Waxman released a new report: The Administration's Medicaid Regulations: State-by-State Impacts.

The report details the state-by-state impacts of seven regulations issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) that would make major, wide-ranging changes in Medicaid, the nation's largest low-income health care program.

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Pelosi Response to Administration Decision Not to Enforce Contempt Citations of Miers and Bolten
February 29, 2008
Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to a letter she received late this afternoon from U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey stating that the Administration is refusing to enforce contempt of Congress citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten:

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Chairman Conyers on DOJ Refusal to Present Contempt Citations
February 29, 2008
From the Judiciary Committee on the DOJ decision:

Conyers Outraged at Justice Department Contempt Decision Vows to Enforce Subpoenas

(Washington, DC)- Today, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) reacted to the Justice Department's decision not to present contempt citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten to a grand jury, despite a statutory obligation to do so:

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Pelosi: Intelligence Bill is a Critical Step in Protecting Our Country; the President Should Sign It
February 29, 2008
Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on Congress sending the fiscal year 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act Conference Report to the President. President Bush has threatened to veto the legislation because it extends the prohibition on torture contained in the Army Field Manual to Intelligence Community personnel.

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Chairman Waxman Writes to Secretary Rice on Embassy in Iraq
February 29, 2008
Today Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding new documents that identify "critical" and "major" deficiencies in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, raising questions about the decision of the State Department to certify in December that the Embassy compound was "substantially complete." The letter reads in part:

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Chairman Conyers on Contempt Referral Letter
February 28, 2008
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Pelosi Letter to Attorney General Mukasey on Contempt Citations of Miers and Bolten
February 28, 2008
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, informing him of the referral letter sent to U.S. Attorney of the District of Columbia Jeffrey Taylor on contempt citations of former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten. Taylor is required by law to bring the matter before a grand jury. However, Mukasey has indicated that the Justice Department intends to prevent Taylor from complying with the law.
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The Cost of Iraq War - Nearly Five Years Later
February 28, 2008
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Impact on the National Guard & Reserves

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Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn and Emanuel Send Letter to White House on House-Passed Energy Legislation
February 28, 2008
Washington, D.C. -- The House Democratic leadership sent the following letter today to President Bush.

Below is a text of the letter:

February 28, 2008

The President

The White House

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

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Rep. Holt Responds to President Bush on FISA
February 28, 2008
From Rep. Rush Holt on President Bush's comments this morning:

HOLT STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S MORNING COMMENTS ON FISA DEBATE

(Washington, D.C.) -- Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12), Chair of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, released the following statement today in response to the President's comments regarding the debate over electronic surveillance at this morning's press conference: