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President Bush's call for more troops to be sent to Iraq is popular with Republican voters. For the most part, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates are on board, too. But there are exceptions.

A House vote is expected Friday on a bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower prices for the Medicare prescription drug program. President Bush opposes the measure.

Earlier this year Zhang Yimou made the intimate drama

Curse of the Golden Flower

Hundreds of New Orleans residents march to City Hall to protest a rising murder rate and what they say is a lack of city and police response. People have been galvanized by the loss of two prominent cultural figures in the city: a white filmmaker and a black musician.

The House votes to expand federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research. Last year, President Bush cast the only veto of his tenure to keep a similar measure from being enacted. The Congress, then controlled by Republicans, failed to override it.

President Bush's secretaries of State and Defense spent their days defending his new plan in Iraq, first at a White House news conference and then on Capitol Hill. Secretaries Rice and Gates found only minimal support for a greater troop commitment in Congress.

There has been a widely divergent reaction to President Bush's speech about raising U.S. troop levels in Baghdad. Opinion cuts across sectarian and political lines.

While most Americans are calling for a pull back in Iraq President Bush wants to go in the opposite direction. The President wants to commit 4,000 more Marines to the volatile Anbar Province and more

President Bush's much-anticipated speech on Iraq, in which he announced a plan to increase the number of U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq, is already attracting skeptics on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.