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Though the 106th Congress failed to pass hate-crimes legislation, the outlook is promising this year. Bills have been introduced into both houses of Congress, and they are now working their way through committee. This legislation deserves students' strong support. It is a crucial step in fighting hate in our society and protecting the victims of hate-motivated crimes...
...time for the 106th Congress to put its commitment where its rhetoric lies, and report these bills out to full session. After these years of devastation and heartbreak, that is the least that our young people deserve. Or was Columbine not enough...
...106th Congress is rapidly drawing to a close, with both sides of the aisle racing to finish the appropriations bills this week and then return to their districts to campaign. Unfortunately, however, this Congress will not be able to look back with satisfaction upon its achievements of the past two years: Too many pieces of necessary legislation--many with strong bipartisan support--have fallen through the cracks and been left off the Republican leadership's calendar. When voters go the polls this November, they should remember the needs that Congress could have met but instead chose to ignore...
...Power. These are imperious gods of last resort, but the only ones left standing. These are not in themselves bad gods and they certainly are not new gods either. One must judge a deity by its martyrs. Many might die for democracy; very few, I think, for the 106th Congress. And how must a courtier live? He must survive by intrigue and scant trust, through deference to the king and his gods, by keeping out of the fields and sun. By, in short, the mean ends Purdy deplores...
...reveal malversation in government. But what these laws have in fact done is to create a fourth branch of government--powerful, unaccountable and wonderfully designed to make it hard to recruit people for public service and easy to intimidate them once they are serving. A priority for the 106th Congress should be the dismemberment of these institutional manifestations of our prosecutorial culture. Abolishing the fourth branch of government would benefit future Republican as well as Democratic administrations...