Word: act
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...help recalling Bill Clinton's impeachment. While the underlying circumstances of the events are different, they do share some common elements: marital infidelity and alleged criminal acts (perjury for Clinton and violation of the Mann Act for Spitzer). Isn't it curious that at the end of the day, Clinton stayed in office because of his popularity and Spitzer got thrown under the bus for his lack of it? It's little wonder the public has so little regard for elected officials. Scott Thompson, DALLAS...
...Obama's grandmother's--economic downturn. This time we start with a huge government deficit and record private debt, all run up when times were good and we should have been storing up acorns. This is one that begins with people losing their homes, which is usually the last act of the drama. This is one that is bringing back stagflation--that poisonous combination of economic slowdown and eroding currency we cured at a terrible cost back in 1981. When that red phone rings in the middle of the night, it probably won't be the National Security Adviser saying...
...Senate, McCain has been remarkably open about the pressures that other members of the Commerce Committee felt from such donors. He claimed that the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which he opposed, had been "hijacked" by campaign donors and lobbyists. But when it came to his own decisions, which often favored those same donors, McCain maintained there was no impropriety. Following his small-government philosophy, he argued for further deregulation of telecommunications and a ban on Internet taxation, positions that happened to benefit his donors...
...Democratic staffers present at the markup that day say they were convinced that McCain had proposed the last-minute amendment because of pressure from Alcalde, whom they remember as being seated near the front of the room. "At any given time, there are 100 different amendments to the Communications Act that John McCain believes in," noted a staffer. "He happened to do the one that was being pushed by the people who were raising money for him and whose representative was sitting in the third row." (Through a spokesman, McCain says he never expected the amendment to be accepted...
...Capitol Hill, hoping to obtain letters on their behalf or legislation in their favor. But for McCain, such questions become an issue of integrity. He is the one, after all, who regularly breaks the Senate's code of silence by alleging corruption by his peers. "Elected officials do act in particular ways in order to assist large soft-money donors," McCain wrote in a sworn statement from the 2002 Supreme Court case over his campaign-finance bill. "This skews and shapes the legislative process...