• Somewhere in the summer house, a loud buzzer goes off.

    NEWYORKER: Brother on Sunday

  • The measure passed the Senate in the summer and the House this week.

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  • Mr Koizumi, the prime minister, desperately wants to push this reform through the upper house this summer, after winning in the lower house by only five votes earlier this month.

    ECONOMIST: The hidden beauty in a heated battle

  • When other folks were talking about scaling back, the President very clearly pushed hard for a substantial deficit and debt reduction package with the Speaker of the House this summer.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Negotiations over the next US budget are expected to run into the summer, but the White House says the document released on Wednesday is not an opening offer.

    BBC: Barack Obama unveils $3.77tn budget plan

  • Ed. note: The application for the Summer 2013 White House Internship Program is now open.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • Ed. note: Applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2013 White House Internship Program.

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  • And then the rented house that summer had one, netless, in the back yard.

    NEWYORKER: M&M World

  • Ed. note: The application for the Summer 2012 White House Internship Program is now open.

    WHITEHOUSE: Share This Post

  • In the summer, the house was closed up and the vent with the wind turbine was opened.

    FORBES: China Braces for Escalating Power Shortages

  • Last summer the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee said British troops were trying to do too much and had experienced "mission creep".

    BBC: Cameron wants troops home from Afghanistan by 2015

  • In the late summer, White House relations with Congress plummeted after negotiations over whether or how to raise the nation's debt ceiling nearly led the nation to default.

    WSJ: Obama Shifts View of Executive Power

  • Remember all the celebrating on Capitol Hill this summer when the Senate and House of Representatives each passed separate energy bills?

    FORBES: Dim Prospects

  • Bush's radio address is part of what the White House calls its summer strategy, having the president focus on what aides call "compassionate" issues, such as education, a plan to allow religious groups to obtain federal tax dollars to provide social services and the president's ideas for a patients' bill of rights.

    CNN: Bush urges action on education; Democrats defend health care bill

  • With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the Government's proposal to invite the House to agree further democratic reform including legislation - before the House rises for the summer - on the conduct of MPs.

    BBC: In full: Constitution proposals

  • Revising Japan's peace constitution is controversial with voters and Abe is eager to gain control of the Upper House of the Diet in summer elections.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • As the automobile and airplane sapped Rhode Island of its summer prominence, the Ocean House saw its fortunes slowly fade.

    FORBES: All Access

  • The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.

    WSJ: Modern Pastoral

  • Worries over rising inequality were cleverly exploited by the opposition in the upper-house elections this summer, which led to the downfall of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe.

    ECONOMIST: Business in Japan

  • And also now that Congress has left, and given the drought this summer, how anxious is the White House to get a farm bill?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Several neighbors, the Paulsens not among them, brought their boys for visits to the lakeside house that summer.

    NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors

  • Last summer, the House passed my amendment regarding the use of WBI scanners as a primary screening device at U.S. airports.

    CNN: Don't let security scanners erase our privacy

  • The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost ground in the elections for the upper house this summer, partly by forcing through benefit cuts and higher premiums on pensions.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • This happened last summer when the House of Representatives passed legislation that bans all applications of human cloning -- both research and reproductive -- with stiff penalties for violators.

    CNN: graphic

  • This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government consultants.

    NEWYORKER: Shifting Targets

  • Maryland was the first to vote on the issue following an announcement from the White House this summer that it would revise deportation enforcement to allow many young illegal immigrants to legally live and work in the United States.

    WSJ: Washington and Colorado the First States to Legalize Marijuana for General Use

  • But today the White House announced Summer Jobs Plus, which is a new call to action for businesses, nonprofits and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth in the summer of 2012.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The Government will come forward with published proposals for the final stages of House of Lords reform before the summer break - including the next steps we can take to resolve the position of the remaining hereditary peers and other outstanding issues.

    BBC: In full: Constitution proposals

  • The pond is in fact a coastal lagoon, where Bill Clinton set up a 'summer White House' during the worst days of the Monica Lewinsky affair.

    BBC: Escape from New York

  • The White House insists that the information it received this past summer was general and lacked specifics.

    CNN: Families of 9/11 dead upset that clues may have been missed

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