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...cheer went up among the reformers, and eight hours later--just before 3 a.m. Thursday--the House finally passed the campaign-finance bill, as 41 Republicans defied threats from their party leaders and voted for the measure. Sponsored by Democrat Martin Meehan and Republican Christopher Shays, the bill would ban unlimited and unregulated "soft money" donations, $500 million of which were raised and spent in the 2000 election. "This changes the architecture of American politics," said Gephardt, bleary eyed and still aching from his operation on the day after the vote. "This bill will allow the people to be heard...
That may explain why Bush isn't too bothered by a soft-money ban. For his 2004 re-election bid, the President is likely to have a huge hard-money advantage--in his first presidential bid, some 200 Bush "Pioneers" each raised $100,000 in $1,000 increments from friends--and the soft-money ban would make it hard for Democrats to catch up. Already the Dems are scrambling to narrow the huge Republican lead in hard money. The Democrats' new headquarters will have high-tech computers to help reach more of the $2,000-range donors...
...November, President George W. Bush signed a one-year provision declaring that only bottom feeders raised in the U.S. could be sold as catfish. Legislation to make the ban permanent passed the Senate in December and is pending in the House. The measure was specifically aimed at competition from Vietnamese farmers who raise a variety of catfish in flooded rice paddies and sell them for attractive prices: about $1.80 a lb. wholesale, vs. $2.80 for U.S.-farmed catfish. Called basa, the Vietnamese fish account for about 20% of catfish fillets sold in the U.S., up from 7% in 1997. "These...
Before they launch hasty trademark fights, countries should consider America's plight. Though it is winning its battle with the Vietnamese, the U.S. has lost ground elsewhere in the trademarking war. Congress's catfish vote forced the U.S. trade representative to drop opposition to a similar ban in Europe that allows only North Atlantic sardines to be sold as herring...
...achieve security separation" between Israelis and Palestinians. But a day later he ordered his army to avoid initiating military action in the West Bank and Gaza for seven days, following a deal brokered with Palestinian security chiefs. And his security cabinet meets Sunday to discuss lifting the travel ban on the Palestinian leader, after three men wanted for the killing of an Israeli cabinet minister were arrested on Arafat's orders...