As to the proposal that you -- or the offer that you reference, I mean, I think it demonstrates the fact that we are willing to try to find a compromise.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

It could be a call for a further investigation - which might mean a reference to the Standards and Privileges Committee.

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Officer Fox construed the reference to "congressional staff members" to mean White House staff who worked with Congress -- i.e.

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The fact that there has not been a big terrorist attack against the West since the one in Madrid last March does not mean that the threat has gone away: as Osama bin Laden's reference to the wrongs done to Muslims in 8th-century Andalucia shows, Islamist terrorists work on a longer time-scale than most people.

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And he added: "The failure of my initiative does not mean the failure of Tunisia or the failure of the revolution, " in a reference to the popular unrest two years ago that ousted autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

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