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[T]he U.S. Senate voted 94-2 in favor of S.214, The Preserving United States Independence Act of 2007. This legislation would revoke the provision of the 2006 Reauthorization of the Patriot Act that allows the Attorney General appoint interim U.S. attorneys for indefinite terms and without Senate confirmation. This bill still needs to go through the House. But, in any case, the 94-2 Senate vote clearly indicates that the recent U.S. attorney firings is not a partisan issue, but one that Senators in both parties chose to address by clipping Gonzales’s wings via this legislation.
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The Senate, along with the United States House of Representatives, votes on which laws the United States should have. In most cases, both of these groups have to agree on the suggested law before it becomes a law.
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Despite his reservations about how this program ultimately would be funded in an era of tight public budgeting, Ford still signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, which established special education throughout the United States. Ford expressed "strong support for full educational opportunities for our handicapped children" according to the official White House press release for the bill signing.[51]
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