Word: brownback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They?ve shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft-money ban, up or down ? an approach that has apparently won one convert, Sam Brownback of Kansas. But even if another seven relent, Dickerson says the Democrats ?- who have been unanimously and gleefully in support of the bill for years ?- will mysteriously find some reason why it?s no longer palatable...
Later this month Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, one of the more thoughtful conservatives in Congress, is assembling a summit to talk about where to go next. He has invited Thomas, Bennett and Weyrich, who may find inspiration in what Weyrich describes as an outpouring of letters he has received from people telling him of some private charitable initiatives that have gone where no bureaucrat has gone before...
...What Brownback knew in his gut going into last week was confirmed in closed-door meetings by some cold, hard numbers presented to G.O.P. Senators by pollster Linda DiVall two days before the trial began. The party, she told them, was stuck with a ballooning bill for this ugly year. Approval of the G.O.P. Congress is in the 40% range and falling. Something had to be done quickly, so a group of Senators held a press conference Friday morning to announce plans to introduce the G.O.P. version of legislation for a patients' bill of rights. There will be more...
...Brownback got a lump in his throat two weeks ago when he raised his right hand and swore "to do impartial justice." It's the President of the U.S., he thought. This is serious. "But I had a keen sense of sadness too," he recalled later. "You tell your kids not to do things that are wrong, but whatever they do, you tell them, 'Don't lie about it.' Americans all over the country say that every day to their kids. That's the reason we're here. That's the reason the Chief Justice is here, 100 Senators...
...Later Brownback sounds as if he is wrestling with issues of justice and mercy. "You sit in those hearings, and it's a sad role, but you realize none of us is perfect. There are consequences to actions, but none of us is perfect. If you're in a civil society, you have to dispense justice but also forgiveness...