<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/"/><tagline>Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-08-30T01:22:48+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/50425/1/" /><id>50425</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers]]></summary><issued>2008-02-13T11:46:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-13T11:46:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As well as to grant legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush&#8217;s program of eavesdropping without warrants. <br/><br/>Hooray for freedom!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68232/1/" /><id>68232</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate approved and sent the White House a bill Wednesday to overhaul bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate approves bill to broaden wiretap powers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68307/1/" /><id>68307</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate approves bill to broaden wiretap powers]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T12:25:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T12:25:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government&#8217;s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues. As most of you may know, I am a huge Obama fan and am saddened to see him voting in support of this (even though he said he wouldn't).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61701/1/" /><id>61701</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate votes 97-1 to halt oil reserve shipments]]></summary><issued>2008-05-13T17:04:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-13T17:04:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[US economy plan fails in Senate]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/49680/1/" /><id>49680</id><summary><![CDATA[US economy plan fails in Senate]]></summary><issued>2008-02-06T23:26:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-06T23:26:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A more generous version of the economic stimulus plan than the one proposed by US President George W Bush has failed to find enough support in the Senate.<br/><br/><i>It's dead, Jim, dead...</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush is A commander guy, not THE commander guy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19102/1/" /><id>19102</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush is A commander guy, not THE commander guy]]></summary><issued>2007-05-05T02:10:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-05T02:10:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The White House is trying to clarify something: President George W Bush is ''a commander guy'' but not ''the commander guy.''<br/><br/>Or something like that.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Gonzales Next Bush, Rove and Cheney Fall Guy?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13292/1/" /><id>13292</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Gonzales Next Bush, Rove and Cheney Fall Guy?]]></summary><issued>2007-03-16T00:24:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-16T00:24:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Does anyone notice a trend in the Bush administration:<ul style='list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px;'><li class='li'>Passing the buck and setting up others to be fall guys<br/><li class='li'>Truckloads of lies, deception and half truths<br/><li class='li'>Lack of accountability</ul>]]></content></entry></feed>