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Written by Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders hope House passage of bills targeting Planned Parenthood and curbing some abortion procedures will mollify fractious conservatives demanding a face-off with President Barack Obama that could trigger a federal shutdown.
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Written by Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE — The U.S. House on Friday took steps that were opposed by the entire Bay State congressional delegation to reject the Obama administration's nuclear agreement with Iran and to block the president from lifting sanctions against that country until January 2017.
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Written by Deb Riechmann WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is continuing to flex its muscles on the Iran nuclear deal even though the Senate has already sealed its fate in Congress.
Democrats
Written by Erica Werner and Deb Riechmann WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iran nuclear deal has survived a key vote in the Senate, in a victory for President Barack Obama.
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Written by Deb Riechmann and Erica Werner WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative House Republicans have embarked on an eleventh-hour political maneuver to derail the Iranian nuclear deal, saying they can't vote on it until the president coughs up copies of side deals Tehran negotiated with atomic inspectors.
Democrats
Written by Deb Riechmann WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential campaign collided head-on with congressional debate on the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, producing an only-in-Washington political spectacle inside the Capitol and out as lawmakers readied for what could be the most consequential foreign policy vote of their careers.
Abortion
Written by Alan Fram WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening long-awaited congressional hearings, the House Judiciary Committee chairman said Wednesday its Planned Parenthood investigation is aimed at protecting taxpayers against financing the kind of "horrors" suggested by secretly recorded videos of group officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue.
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The first House Judiciary Committee hearing on an investigation of Planned Parenthood took place in Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning. The the committee plans to hear expert testimony as part of its investigation into Planned Parenthood's abortion practices after a series of videos put out by the Center
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