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...Zherka hopes to flip several more G.O.P. Senators in the next couple of weeks, specifically mentioning Olympia Snowe of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. "We're realists," he said during a July 4 parade in Washington. "We know that we need the support of Republicans." Whether or not he gets the political backing he needs now, at least he can count on future generations of public support. Behind him, a mother pushed her infant in a stroller. Perched on the front was a sign written in a child's scrawl: "My mommy just paid...
...Wednesday, the Justice Department's Inspector General, Glenn Fine, told Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee, that he is looking into a controversial conversation Gonzales had with his former counselor, Monica Goodling, as she left the Department in April. Fine's conclusions are likely to be more important than those of the Senate: he launched a wide-ranging investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys last year, and a negative report from him could hurt Gonzales in ways Congress couldn't. Fine's inclusion of the Goodling conversation...
...first Republican to tackle Gonzales was Arlen Specter, the committee's ranking minority member, who termed Gonzales' session on Capitol Hill a "reconfirmation hearing." Though Specter started with the charitable tone of voice he reserves for those who he views as foolish but forgivable, Gonzales quickly did two things you never do with the cantankerous senior Senator from Pennsylvania: he both interrupted and challenged him. When Specter was asking Gonzales about conflicts between his opening statement and comments he made at a press conference earlier this year, Specter said, as an aside, that he was sure that Gonzales had prepared...
...that anyone involved in this process sought the removal of a U.S. attorney for an improper reason," Gonzales asserted. "I firmly believe that these dismissals were appropriate." But he did not offer specifics about any of the firings, and specifics seem likely to dominate Tuesday's Senate hearings. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the committee, said yesterday that Gonzales has a "steep hill to climb" to keep his job, noting that, "He's going to be successful, in my opinion, only if he deals with the [specific] facts...
McCain and Lieberman's bill was soundly defeated that year and in 2005 suffered an even worse Senate smackdown, 60 to 38. With a new Congress in place, McCain and Lieberman will try again. This time they will face competition from Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter, whose version would set higher caps and more gradual reductions. "The McCain-Lieberman proposal was very credible," Bingaman says. "[But] this draft has more prospect of actually being adopted." Yet another cap-and-trade bill will probably come out of Boxer's committee, and more bills still will be considered in the House...