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WASHINGTON: The 106th U.S. Senate wasn't even a day old when its bipartisan facade began to crack. Majority Leader Trent Lott, his trial-in-a-week plan in tatters, announced that the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton could take at least three weeks -- witnesses included -- and "could very well take longer than that." Minority Leader Tom Daschle pledged a "universal, unanimous" Democratic opposition to calling witnesses. Which means that Lott has a lot more compromising...
Newly elected members of the 106th Congress are at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) this weekend for a crash course on the issues they will confront on Capitol Hill...
Capuano gave The Crimson an extensive interview, in which he discussed his tenure as Somerville mayor and his thoughts on the 106th United States Congress...
...make-up of the 106th Congress is not that different from the current one, in terms of numbers. Republicans still hold narrow majorities in both houses. But the spirit of American politics seems to have taken for the better. The victories of the Bush brothers in Texas and Florida indicate that the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and not the reactionary wing, has a future. The Democratic resurgence in the South, marked by the capture of two Senate seats and two governorships (in Georgia and South Carolina), is a welcome shake-up to the country's regional political divide...
Harvard's interests enjoy bipartisan support, and administrators are confident that the newly elected 106th Congress will be as generous as their predecessors...