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...Senate Judiciary Committee was also sent a letter by a bipartisan group of 156 members of the D.C. Bar, all of whom urged Roberts’s swift confirmation. “He is one of the very best and most highly respected appellate lawyers in the nation, with a deserved reputation as a brilliant writer and oral advocate” the letter said. “He is also a wonderful professional colleague both because of his enormous skills and because of his unquestioned integrity and fair-mindedness...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2 Alums May Be Tapped For Court | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

Congress could clear this legal thicket by approving the proposed Dream Act, which would repeal the federal residency-rule ban and grant temporary legal status to undocumented graduates of U.S. high schools. But despite bipartisan support, the bill has failed to get to the floor in the past two sessions of Congress. "The Federal Government hasn't shown much interest in sending [illegal immigrants] home," says Sue Storm, sponsor of the Kansas bill. "It's in all our best interests for them to be educated." Opponents don't buy that brand of pragmatism. "It's so politically correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Break? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...fighting the left-wing regime in Nicaragua. A House vote on Reagan's $ 100 million aid package for the contras is scheduled for this week (see ESSAY). "Important choices now rest with the Congress," said Reagan last week, "to betray those struggling against tyranny . . . or to join in a bipartisan national endeavor to strengthen both freedom and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right and Left: Reagan takes on tyranny | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Conable is a lawyer by training, rather than a banker, but he has impressive leadership credentials. Born in Warsaw, N.Y., and educated at Cornell University, the independent-minded legislator from Rochester first won his seat in the House of Representatives in 1964 and speedily garnered bipartisan respect for his intelligence, diligence and integrity. As a member of, and eventually the ranking Republican on, the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Conable was an expert on U.S. tax policy and a vocal proponent of free international trade. In 1980 he served as finance chairman of George Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lender in Chief: New head for the World Bank | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...last week. The Comptroller's duties under Gramm-Rudman "affect every nook and cranny of the Executive Department," he contended. During two hours of argument, twice the normally allotted time, lawyers for the House, the Senate and the Comptroller came to the law's defense. Steven Ross, representing the bipartisan leadership of the House, rejected the claim that the Comptroller was answerable to Capitol Hill, arguing that Congress had assigned him a role in the Gramm-Rudman scheme precisely to ensure that the budget-cutting calculations would be "walled off" from political considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Controls the Comptroller? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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