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While this may be a soothing convenience for frazzled Main Street and mall shoppers, sick of crowds and long check-out lines, it is a loser for state and local tax coffers. Governors addressed this issue--shopping and taxes--in this now waning 105th Congress and so did an Institute of Politics study group on federal and state power struggles this fall. They are issues that aren't likely to go away...
Hours after President Clintonsigned the budget bill into law yesterday, ending the 105th Congressional session and effectively halting debate on pending hate crime legislation, members of the College community gathered to remember Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose murder put that legislation in the spotlight...
WASHINGTON: Well, that's over with. The 105th Congress heads home to the campaign trail Wednesday after the Senate approved a budget bill that most members didn't even have time to read. At 4,000 pages and 40 pounds, with more than 70 legislative throw-ins that have nothing to do with fiscal policy, the 1999 budget sounds like something Ken Starr would dream up -- except that this document is sending Democrats home happy...
...passions are supposed to spill over--to be cooled, as the Founders put it, in the saucer of the Upper House. So it wasn't all that strange Thursday morning that the most important constitutional debate in 24 years would be squeezed in between a class photo of the 105th Congress and a vote to award Teddy Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor...
...that such a good bill emanating from the 105th Congress comes as such a surprise. Higher education is an easy cause to support, with fans in constituencies of different ages, classes and political beliefs...