"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.

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The American steak house is taken to a higher level at Porter House .

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We were joined by chef Michael Lomonaco, who runs Center Bar as well as the nearby Porter House New York steakhouse.

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The first briefing on the list -- on September 4, 2002 -- was for then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss and Pelosi, then the ranking Democrat on the committee.

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They started an investigation, and found out that no one named "Larry" had ever lived in Dr. Porter's house, but a slave named "Fortune" did.

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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday he wants to see whether the independent panel proposed by Gephardt and Roemer would replace or merely supplement the investigation by the intelligence committees.

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The truth of the matter is, however, that both he and his House counterpart Rep. Porter Goss, Republican of Florida and a former secret agent were as reluctant as CIA Director George Tenet, and the Bush Administration writ large, to see the intelligence community subjected to close scrutiny.

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The reorganization has the support of key Republicans on Capitol Hill such as Rep. Porter Goss of Florida, the House Intelligence Committee chairman.

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Porter Goss, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, this week suggested that the main problem was a failure of fact-gathering, rather than analysis.

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