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...Health Care? The McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights bill used to be a Bush annoyance. Now it's next up, right after Memorial Day, in the Daschle Senate. the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge? The new head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is none other than Jeffords himself, who presumably did not have the Administration's environmental interests at heart when he jumped the fence Thursday. The rebirth of nuclear energy? Well, the private sector won't build any more plants until they've got a place to dump the waste, and Jeffords was handed...
...Appropriations GOP chair: Ted Stevens, Alaska Democratic chair: Robert Byrd, West Virginia Effect of change: Not much. Expect same jealous guarding of pork projects...
...Energy and Natural Resources GOP chair: Frank Murkowski, Alaska Democratic chair: Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico Effect of change: Bingaman may force Bush to consider more conservation methods...
...drilling in Alaska, Abraham does not argue that the public and Congress are ready to support the idea. But, he asks, "do we think we should take 2,000 acres of a 19 million-acre refuge that can in fact be environmentally, sensitively produced and try to build more energy independence in the U.S.? I think it's a fair debate to have...
...Price Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told...