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Senate Democratic leaders were happy to have Obama take the baton, but didn't want the Illinois Senator to indulge in his usual pox-on-both-their-houses political style, whereby he lectures Democrats and Republicans alike for being divided and looks for a bipartisan solution. Democrats wanted to attack the G.O.P. over the excesses of lobbyist and admitted felon Abramoff, a Republican, and get a law passed only on their terms. So Obama tried to split the difference. He showed up at a bipartisan meeting on lobbying reform with Republican Senator John McCain but later sent McCain a letter...
...issue. Obama, being pushed by Senate Democratic leaders to use the lobbying reform issue to help attack the GOP as elections loom in November, last week sent a letter to McCain, saying Democrats would pursue their own ethics bill rather than joining a bill created by McCain's bipartisan task force. In a letter this week, the Arizona Senator blasted Obama. "I?m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics," McCain wrote, "I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble...
...venomous partisan rancor in Washington, the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) sorted out their differences, exchanging trash-talk and welt-raising projectiles in the first “Bipartisan Paintball Brawl.” Though The Crimson has already offered one perspective (“Partisans Clash in Paintball War,” 2/3/06), FM decided to evaluate the battle strategy of the warring factions. Fearless and well organized, the Republicans charged out of the gates with guns blazing, while the Democrats pursued a cautious strategy of hiding timidly behind defensive cover. “Democrats...
...first time in decades, however, there's hope that the pause may be ending. Given its bipartisan appeal, the Bush Competitiveness Initiative is likely to pass. Funding won't be easy, given the soaring deficit, but the people who dole out the money are enthusiastic. "I am very, very supportive," Representative Frank Wolf, the House Republican in charge of science funding, told TIME, "and I think the President is going to get what he requested." Sometimes, marvels Alexander, "these things sit for years and then suddenly come together...
...gives law enforcement officers crucial tools they need to protect Americans. Passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Patriot Act was originally set to expire Dec. 31 of last year, and Congress prepared to revise and renew the legislation in early December. But a bipartisan group of senators has continued to block long-term reauthorization until their civil liberties concerns have been addressed. Rather than allow the act to lapse entirely, Congress has opted to temporarily extend the current law first until February, and now until March. “The need for extensions provides...