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...John McCain: We have a crowded agenda ranging from getting the patients' bill of rights done to national service to reform of the military to a broad range of telecommunications issues. And I can now focus a lot of time and attention to pork barrel spending, which has become outrageous and obscene...
...Methanex case is complicating Bush's efforts to win "trade promotion authority," which would require Congress to vote yes or no, without amendment, on any treaty the President offered. The idea is to protect hard-bargained agreements from pork-barrel politicking. The bill passed the House by only one vote last December, as even longtime free traders worried about the potential threat to the U.S. of the Methanex case and other investor challenges. Waving 5,000 pages of trade agreements, Representative Robert Matsui, a California Democrat, argued that new treaties could affect federal laws on matters from food safety...
...performers sparred with percussive phrases played on barrel-sized drums and copper pot-like cymbals. One group of drummers represented the agile tiger, a traditional symbol of Korea, while another group represented the booming, dragon-like power of Japan, Everson said...
...Taylorsville, N.C., which they founded together in 1989 and which has grown into a business that sold close to $70 million worth of furniture last year. That may sound paltry next to the hundreds of millions pulled in by such A-list retailers as Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Restoration Hardware (armchair giant La-Z-Boy did $2.6 billion in sales last year). But guess who makes most of their upholstered furniture? And the leather club chairs and slipcover sofas in Ally McBeal and Friends? Mitchell Gold...
...Reformist Yamaguchi, however, now that he is in office, supports the highway. "Of course I am lobbying the Ministry of Transportation that we have to build more roads," he says, explaining that a new road would encourage development at the district's nano-technology research center, an earlier pork-barrel project. Besides, Yamaguchi needs to show the folks back home that he can be as effective as his predecessor, a veteran LDP power broker: "I have to show that even though I am not in the LDP, I can deliver," he says...