<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Tennessee</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/tn?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><description>Tennessee</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Hill Leaders Often Take Corporate Jets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38637-2005May5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38637-2005May5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) left Washington last August to attend a friend's funeral in his home state and give a political speech in Ohio, he didn't wait in long security lines for a nonstop commercial flight.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith and Derek Willis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gore Cautions on Ending Filibusters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21659-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21659-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former vice president Al Gore warned yesterday that ending Senate filibusters for judicial nominations would "undermine the rule of law," and charged that Republicans backing the change are in the grip of "an aggressive new strain of right-wing religious zealotry."]]></description><author> John F. Harris</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Filibuster Vote Will Be Hard to Predict]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21660-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21660-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As few as two or three uncommitted GOP senators have left Democrats and Republicans uncertain who might prevail in an eventual showdown in the battle over judicial filibusters, sources in both parties said yesterday.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Hint At Filibuster Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16376-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16376-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Senate's top two Democrats, seeking a break in the impasse over seven stalled judicial nominees, said for the first time yesterday that they would consider a compromise in which some of the seven would be confirmed and the others withdrawn.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thundery Earth Day Keeps Bush Out of Park]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 22  --  President Bush was to have celebrated Earth Day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday, pitching in on a trail restoration project and giving a speech touting his environmental record with the park's majestic peaks serving as a compelling backdrop. But Mother Nature did not cooperate.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheney Enters Fray on Judicial Nominees]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The White House intervened in Congress's bitterly partisan debate over federal judges, as Vice President Cheney vowed to break a tie vote if necessary to change Senate rules and ban filibusters of judicial nominees.]]></description><author> Charles Babington  and Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate GOP Sets Up Filibuster Showdown]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6621-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6621-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Moving the Senate closer to a historic confrontation, the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee endorsed two of President Bush's most controversial nominees to federal appellate court, and Democrats vowed once again to use the filibuster to block their confirmation.]]></description><author> Charles Babington and Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Complexity of Taiwan's Ties With Lobbyists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Taiwan's relationships with its Washington lobbyists are sometimes as complicated and tortuous as its relationship with the U.S. government.]]></description><author> Judy Sarasohn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specter Advances Measure to Settle Asbestos Claims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3117-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3117-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) moved ahead yesterday with his effort to resolve the national asbestos litigation tangle, introducing a bill that would create a $140 billion trust fund to pay victims' claims while barring some smokers from benefits and curbing payouts to trial lawyers.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frist to Participate in Anti-Filibuster Telecast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's decision to appear in a national telecast with prominent Christian conservatives  --  who are calling for new Senate rules to seat federal judges and are assailing "the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left"  --  drew fire yesterday from Democratic leaders.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frist Likely to Push for Ban on Filibusters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54661-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54661-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is all but certain to press for a rule change that would ban filibusters of judicial nominations in the next few weeks.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[PNC Bank Devises a Bold Arrival]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48302-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48302-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[PNC Bank, hoping to make a splash among consumers in the increasingly competitive Washington market when it takes over Riggs Bank in May, said yesterday it plans to significantly expand its night and weekend hours, waive many ATM fees and immediately begin building new branches.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Endangered Susquehanna]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48296-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48296-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Teeming with raw sewage, animal waste and fertilizer runoff, yet responsible for half the Chesapeake Bay's fresh water, the Susquehanna River is the most endangered river in the United States, according to a report released today by American Rivers, a national conservation group.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Deal That Makes Scents]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48354-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48354-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fashion's most successful partnership of business acumen and creative bravado was revived Tuesday with the announcement of the new Tom Ford brand.]]></description><author> Robin Givhan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiple State Licenses Helped Conceal History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44900-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44900-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After physician Joseph S. Hayes was charged in 1999 with fondling female patients  --  but before he was convicted  --  he simply pulled out a different state license and moved. He left Tennessee and got a job at a wellness center in South Carolina, where he had held a license since 1973.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santorum Urges Majority Leader to Answer Critics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42422-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42422-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. Rick Santorum warns Tom DeLay Sunday that he needs to "lay out what he did and why he did it" if he is going to put an end to questions about his travel and dealings with lobbyists.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-AOL Executive Guilty In Wire Fraud]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35506-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35506-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A former America Online executive pleaded guilty Thursday in Alexandria federal court to defrauding the Dulles-based Internet company of $100,000 through a phony contract for an outside consultant who did no work and then shared the fees with him, prosecutors said.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics Panel Finds Conflict With Senator's Job as Physician]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28320-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28320-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Republican Tom Coburn will fight the ruling, arguing that the panel's decision contradicts the Founding Fathers' desire for lawmakers to retain ties to their communities.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senators Will Travel for Papal Funeral]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24664-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24664-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/tn</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:03:08 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[No member of Congress is on the official invitation list for Pope John Paul II's funeral, but a delegation of senators will head to Vatican City anyway, joining ordinary pilgrims to pay their respects.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray</author></item></channel></rss>