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...answer is that Reid learned a valuable lesson from health care. Swallowing can be near impossible when you stuff your face, but if you take smaller bites, legislation goes down easier. And so five Republicans so couldn't resist the stripped-down, $15 billion jobs package Reid pushed that they voted to end their own party's filibuster, and 13 Republicans Wednesday votes for passage of the measure, which includes tax incentives for employers who hire and money for highway construction. That gave Reid his first victory since the passage of health care reform on Christmas Eve. Reid's strategy...
...recipe for success that Reid plans on repeating. He has now lined up a series of smaller jobs-related bills. Next up is popular legislation to create a $200 million public-private partnership aimed at increasing tourism in the U.S., which could bring in $4 billion in new revenues and add thousands of jobs. The bill went down in flames last June after Senators from both sides of the aisle sank it with unrelated amendments on the auto bailout and a study on oil prices...
...House passed one large $154 billion jobs bill in December, and it remains to be seen what they'll make of Reid's version, which will have to be reconciled or passed in pieces by the House before the President can sign it into law. "It is accurate to say that there would be disagreements," House majority leader Steny Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday. "But we really need to see what the Senate does...
...Egypt, which receives an annual $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid, the equivalent of Iran's election drama hasn't unfolded yet. Parliamentary elections are still several months away, and presidential elections aren't slated until next year. But there are signs of an imminent crackdown on opposition groups. U.S. silence on the issue suggests that Cairo may be able to avoid the international spotlight in a way that Tehran did not. (See the line of political succession in Egypt...
...tell a silly mid-off from a backward square-leg. So it's possible you missed the breaking of one of sport's long-standing barriers: India's Sachin Tendulkar scored a double-hundred against South Africa in a one-day match on Feb. 24, 2010. For the 1.5 billion people who follow cricket - making it, by some reckoning, the world's second most popular sport after soccer - it was a moment to match Roger Bannister's 4-min. mile...