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Committee chairman says Democrats do not have enough votes yet
WASHINGTON - A top U.S. Senate Democrat said Sunday his party aims to limit the role of the nearly 140,000 American troops in Iraq and withdraw most of them from the war-torn country within a year.
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By Gordon Trowbridge
Detroit News
WASHINGTON — Michigan’s senior U.S. senator, Democrat Carl Levin, said Friday he plans to delve more deeply into the story of how the United States went to war in Iraq, sending staffers to interview key White House and Pentagon officials about how dubious intelligence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11 terrorist attacks became part of the justification for the 2003 invasion.
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By Gordon Trowbridge
Detroit News
WASHINGTON — An investigation by the Pentagon’s internal watchdog of the run-up to the Iraq war shows top Defense Department officials manipulated intelligence on Iraq’s relationship with al-Qaida, Sen. Carl Levin said today. (more…)
By Jonathan Allen
CQ Today
The sight of Sen. Carl Levin behind a committee dais might not scare government and corporate witnesses, but it should.
The Michigan Democrat lacks the witness-bashing bombast of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or the central-casting courtliness of Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va. But few lawmakers use their question time as judiciously or as effectively as Levin, whose tenacious yet civil interrogating routinely elicits closely guarded information from even the most hostile witnesses. (more…)
By Anne Flaherty
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Two senators leading separate efforts to put Congress on record against President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq joined forces today, agreeing on a nonbinding resolution that would criticize the plan.
Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., had been sponsoring competing measures opposing Bush’s strategy of sending 21,500 more U.S. troops to the war zone, with Warner’s less harshly worded version attracting more Republican interest. The new resolution would vow to protect funding for troops while keeping Warner’s original language expressing the Senate’s opposition to the troop buildup. (more…)
Gordon Trowbridge
Detroit News
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin proposed Tuesday that any future treaty on global climate change allow the United States to ban goods from countries that violate standards on carbon emissions.
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By Chris Christoff
Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON — Others in Congress might criticize President George W. Bush’s handling of the Iraq war with more flash than Sen. Carl Levin.
Some are running for president. The Michigan Democrat has never hinted he wants the job.
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By Kristofer Karol
Livingston Daily Press & Argus
Michigan’s senior senator told a crowd of Livingston County Democrats on Saturday that the end of the Iraq conflict will need to come from placing a cap on troops or specifying a four- to six-month timetable for withdrawal.
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By Joshua Landon
WLNS 6 News
The debate over sending more U.S. troops to Iraq heats up in Michigan. Senator Carl Levin spoke at a democratic party fundraiser in Livingston County, and the senator spent much of his time…talking about the war in Iraq.
Senator Carl Levin received an immense applause before giving his speech in Livingston County. This is senator Levin’s first time speaking in Michigan since President Bush announced his plans of sending an additional 20,000 plus troops to Iraq, and he’s making his positron on the topic loud and clear.
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By Gordon Trowbridge
Detroit News
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., enlisted Republican support Wednesday in his effort to stop President Bush’s proposed troop increase in Iraq, joining with Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel and Democrat Joseph Biden in proposing a nonbinding resolution that would register Congress’ disapproval of the plan.
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By Gordon Trowbridge
Detroit News
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin said Thursday he is “very concerned” that President Bush is considering plans to add U.S. troops to Iraq, a move seen as the likely centerpiece of a new war strategy the president is expected to outline in the coming weeks. (more…)
By Gordon Trowbridge
Detroit News Washington Bureau
Hearings will be his first chance to use Dems’ control of Congress to help shape Iraq policy.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin’s first hearings as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee will question administration officials and outside experts about possible new strategies in Iraq — and not about possible mistakes in conduct of the war. (more…)
By Ken Thomas Associated Press
Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, the incoming chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Monday he will seek re-election in 2008. (more…)
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The postelection debate over Iraq is intensifying as members of Congress from both parties pose remedies and the Bush administration hunts for answers. (more…)
CAPITOL HILL - President Bush’s choice to head the Pentagon goes back up to Capitol Hill today.
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Detroit Free Press
They are three old guys from Michigan about to join the ranks of the nation’s power brokers as Democrats take control of Congress.
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By Kathleen Gray
Detroit Free Press
The day he learned the Democrats took the Senate and he was suddenly a bigger player than he already was, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin showed none of what might be expected for such a big shooter. (more…)
By Tony Capaccio and Kelly Riddell
Bloomberg
Democrats’ takeover of the Senate puts Carl Levin, a man who’s said the U.S. must begin to pull troops out of Iraq, in charge of the Armed Services Committee. (more…)
By Dana Bash
CNN
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democratic leaders have joined together to urge President Bush to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq this year. (more…)
By David Cay Johnston
The New York Times
So many superrich Americans evade taxes using offshore accounts that law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct, according to a Senate report that provides the most detailed look ever at high-level tax schemes. (more…)
