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...undoubtedly be the Senate, where the legislation died last year. But even if the Senate fails to pass campaign reform again this year, the upper chamber may have its own opportunity to demonstrate that it too can salve wounds and move on following an impeachment trial. "The appetite for bipartisan activity in the Senate is focused on saving and reforming Social Security," says Dickerson. "Both parties there are for it." Maybe the realization of the Great American Dream -- Get On With It -- could be near...
Indeed, even liberals expect him to run the Senate trial in a way that commands bipartisan respect. "He's perfect for this job," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University school of law. "He'll behave with all the politesse and decorum of a visitor in someone else's house. He has a keen sense of place." But if Rehnquist finds his unusual role less than appealing, he has himself partly to blame. When Clinton petitioned the court to defer the Paula Jones case until after his presidency, Rehnquist joined the other Justices in ruling that "it appears...
...Lott and Daschle agreed on: Both the House managers and the White House need to keep their noses out of what, for now, is strictly the Senate's business. It was the House, with a big assist from the White House, that stripped impeachment of its last shred of bipartisan solemnity -- just what the Senate is still trying gamely to preserve. With the trial now slated to begin on January 14, Trent Lott has a week to bang enough heads so that the second presidential impeachment in U.S. history will be something both parties -- and their constituents -- can reasonably...
WASHINGTON: The 106th U.S. Senate wasn't even a day old when its bipartisan facade began to crack. Majority Leader Trent Lott, his trial-in-a-week plan in tatters, announced that the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton could take at least three weeks -- witnesses included -- and "could very well take longer than that." Minority Leader Tom Daschle pledged a "universal, unanimous" Democratic opposition to calling witnesses. Which means that Lott has a lot more compromising...
...announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...