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04/28/07
Congressional investigators questioned NASA's top attorney behind closed doors Friday about his role in destroying copies of a recorded meeting between the NASA administrator and the agency's watchdog office.
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04/27/07
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin is being accused of improperly destroying tapes of a meeting he held with the agency's inspector general.
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04/27/07
NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin held an unusual meeting with the staff of the inspector general who oversees his agency and then ordered that video recordings of the meeting be destroyed, a House panel said yesterday.
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04/25/07
U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield stood by the door to the U.S. House of Representatives floor much of Tuesday afternoon, ready to query fellow Democrats.
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04/25/07
Navy secretary Donald Winter spent Tuesday morning meeting with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole about the agency's proposed airstrip in North Carolina.
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04/21/07
The House voted yesterday to give shareholders at public corporations a voice in executive pay packages, which on average are vastly more than the salaries of workers at those companies.
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04/20/07
The House voted Friday to give shareholders at public corporations a voice in executive pay packages that typically equal 500 times the salaries of workers at those companies.
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04/18/07
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller has urged House leaders to withhold funding for a proposed Navy landing field in eastern North Carolina.
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04/13/07
Democratic Rep. Brad Miller of North Carolina is weighing a possible challenge to Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole next year.
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04/13/07
Following a trip to the Darfur region of Sudan, U.S. Reps. Brad Miller and G.K. Butterfield said this week that the United States should consider force if diplomacy fails to end the genocide in the African nation.
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04/12/07
Democratic Rep. Brad Miller said he is considering a challenge to Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in next year's election, a race in which national Democrats have struggled to find a candidate.
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04/12/07
Although details concerning the validity of one professor's research remain fuzzy, some people worry the controversy could have negative implications for future research funding.
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04/12/07
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller is considering a challenge to Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in next year's election.
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04/12/07
A Democratic congressman from Raleigh said Wednesday he's weighing a 2008 U.S. Senate run, making him the first potential challenger to Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
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04/12/07
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, a Raleigh Democrat, is weighing a possible challenge to Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole next year.
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04/11/07
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller presented flags flown over the U.S. Capitol to students in Eden returning from spring break on Tuesday, a world away from where Miller spent his congressional spring break.
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04/11/07
N.C. Rep. Brad Miller is calling for federal action to stop crimes of humanity after returning from a trip last week to Sudan Egypt, Greece and Germany to observe and discuss political and humanitarian situations, especially in Darfur.
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04/04/07
Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) today released a letter to the President calling for the removal of Robert Cobb as inspector general of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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04/03/07
Google's change to pre-Katrina images on Google Earth have brought a clamor of protest and accusations from some New Orleans residents that Google was attempting to "airbrush history" in Google Earth. Conspiracy theorists leapt at the chance to suggest that Google had changed the Google Earth images at the request of the Bush administration.
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04/03/07
After reading an independent panel's critical report about complaints against the man in charge of investigating complaints against NASA, a U.S. senator and a member of the House of Representatives Monday asked U.S. President George W. Bush to fire NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb. Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record) (D-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Commerce space and aeronautics subcommittee, and Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC), chairman of the House Science investigation and oversight subcommittee, called on Bush to remove Cobb from office based on the results of an investigation that has dragged on for more than a year.
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04/03/07
Google has replaced its Google Earth images of New Orleans with those that depict the city in its current state. The company last week sparked some controversy when it became known that its aerial photos of the city were earlier images from before Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
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04/03/07
To those who Google, New Orleans returned Monday to its post-Katrina state but not its up-to-date self.
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04/03/07
Three key members of Congress called for the removal Monday of NASA's inspector general, saying he abused his authority, was too chummy with NASA leaders and created a "hostile" workplace in the auditing office.
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04/03/07
NASA's inspector general created a hostile and dysfunctional workplace with his "aggressive management style" and compromised his independence by appearing to be close to former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, two lawmakers said yesterday after reading an investigative report on his conduct.
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04/01/07
A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of "airbrushing history" by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the region taken before the storm's devastation.
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04/01/07
Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to the storm's victims, a congressional subcommittee said.
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