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...Washington Report Calls Out FCC Chair Over Bad Manners What started as a bipartisan investigation of Federal Communications Commission head Kevin Martin ended with a scathing report from House Democrats that stopped short of accusing the Republican chairman of illegal acts. The House Energy and Commerce Committee report, which GOP members declined to endorse, blasted Martin's "heavy-handed, opaque and noncollegial management style" and accused him of manipulating or withholding from the public data on the cable-TV industry, among other charges. Martin is expected to step down when the next Administration takes office...
...sense that something must be done, overtime pay be damned. At first, his plan did not pass—a common fate of laws that are divisive, unwanted, and absolutely necessary. This time, however, the crisis intervened. The bill was put to another vote and signed into law with bipartisan and hysterical relief—because there was nothing else to be done...
...President's younger brother, warned the GOP against becoming "Democrat lite. We can't just 'get along.'" Despite his disdain for Washington, the Senate would at least "give Jeb a bully pulpit," says a friend. That could help him keep his party from falling too far into the centrist, bipartisan hands of new Republican leaders like his successor, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who last month hosted a GOP governors conference in Bush's home city of Miami, where that more pragmatic politics was trumpeted. Even if Bush doesn't run, "considering it" at least sends the signal that after...
...bipartisan agreement may have resuscitated legislation that would extend federal student aid to some illegal aliens, according to media reports. “On immigration, there’s been an agreement between [President-elect Barack] Obama and [Senator John] McCain to move forward on that,” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration...
...Considering the mixed messages Capitol Hill sent on Thursday, that seemed the only appropriate approach. First, news spread midday that a group of bipartisan lawmakers had reached an agreement to provide Detroit with an infusion of $25 billion, with a victory press conference to be held at 2:30 p.m. Then, abruptly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid cut the negotiators off at the pass by holding a hastily called press conference of their own in the same Senate room at 2:00 p.m. At that point, the Democratic leaders announced that they would not bring...