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...members of Congress finally willing to change the way they do business? This autumn both houses will vote on an unprecedented resolution calling for "comprehensive" reform of their institution. The measure would create a bipartisan committee -- set to include four members who are not elected officials -- which would recommend ways to modernize the legislative process. But the enthusiasm for reform isn't boundless. The four outside members will not be allowed to vote on any proposals...
...Thomas' strongest advocate in the Senate, Missouri Republican John Danforth, last week accused the White House of "trying to turn the clock back on civil rights." Danforth had been attempting to broker a compromise between the Administration and Congress over the new civil rights bill. But Bush rejected a bipartisan plan to bar employers from demanding higher qualifications than a job requires, a practice that can tend to discriminate against minority applicants. So when the Senate returns from its August recess, it will deal with two explosive issues centering on affirmative action...
Last week, after 100 days of investigation, meetings with 150 community groups and a review of more than a million documents, an independent bipartisan commission appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley and police chief Daryl F. Gates issued a 228-page report on the case. The commission, headed by Warren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, charged the nation's third largest police force with tolerating racism, excessive use of force, and lax discipline, and recommended sweeping changes...
...This is not a Republican idea, and the space station is not a Republican project. The strong bipartisan vote in the House proved that. But to answer your question, if we spent the space-station dollars directly on education or housing or whatever, it still wouldn't cure the problems of cities or schools. There isn't enough money in the NASA budget to cure those problems. If NASA were cannibalized that way, you wouldn't have a space station or a leadership role in space. We also wouldn't have touched the pressing problems of schools, housing or cities...
...Washington. Given the guest list, one might expect this parley to produce the sort of verbal food fight that typifies American political debate and alienates so many voters. But the New Paradigm Society, as the participants call their group, isn't looking for arguments; it is searching for bipartisan solutions to America's problems. The fact that they meet at all suggests a sort of harmonic convergence between those who believe that the ideas that powered both the political left and right in America have ceased to be useful...