The next step for both bills is for members of each house to meet to hammer out a final version of the bill in what is called a conference report. The conference committee has a lot of latitude in the crafting the language of the final bill that will be sent to the White House.

Amid all the news of killing and carnage (over 600,000 dead civilians in Iraq courtesy of President Bush and our tax dollars, corruption and criminality at home, it must be heartening for the Bush administration and its hangers on to see that at least one of its policy commitments is succeeding.

When Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) muses aloud about how the U.S. Constitution could take care of a would-be dictator president, who is dismissive of both the American people and the U.S. Congress, you know that things are getting pretty bad for George W. Bush.

Over the past six years, some 22,500 soldiers have been discharged on grounds of “personality disorder” – a condition that can be alleged to have existed prior to their tour of duty – thus absolving the Pentagon of its obligation to provide their medical care and pay their benefits.

Tonight we are celebrating the passage of a massive and unique collection of documents, photos, films, and materials from the Communist Party and the Reference Center for Marxist Studies to Tamiment Library. It is truly a historic occasion.

Traditional clay-based clumping cat litters are the most common and widely sold in supermarkets and pet supply stores. Clay litters do not biodegrade and instead pile up in landfills, producing chemicals that can potentially harm human health.

The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands of anti-war protesters had descended on the capital’s main square to show their support of the Iraqi people on the four-year anniversary of the US invasion.

Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party staged a rally in Taipei on Saturday to protest the authorities' recent "de-sinicizing" moves.

Even as the world watches while the US threatens, bullies and blackmails North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons, and does the same with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme, the leaders of the axis of evil, the USA and Britain have unashamedly launched expansive programmes of building new nuclear arsenals for the 21st century.