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...offset what you save from tailpipes. An overall carbon cap would fix that, but even a greener Bush won't go there. "You dirty up a clean fuel if you manufacture it dirtily," says Sarah Hessenflow Harper, an Environmental Defense analyst and a former agricultural adviser for Senators Sam Brownback and Chuck Hagel...
...Republicans--a field that narrowed by one when John Kerry dropped out on Wednesday. Most of them have begun raising money, hiring staff and lining up endorsements. The past couple of weeks alone have brought announcements by three Senators--Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the Democratic side, Sam Brownback on the Republican--and one Governor, Democrat Bill Richardson of New Mexico. In the crowd there are, for the first time, credible contenders who give voters a chance to make history on a host of fronts--by electing the first woman President or the first African American or the first...
...Massachusetts, though he has disavowed them as he has moved into national politics. Many conservatives had high hopes for Virginia's George Allen and Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum--until they lost their Senate re-election races last year. And Evangelicals say they adore all-but-announced contender Sam Brownback, a former Evangelical who converted to Catholicism and is one of the Senate's most ardent opponents of embryonic-stem-cell research and gay marriage. But they are skeptical that the Kansas Senator can broaden his appeal enough beyond religious voters to have a chance of winning...
...forgiven if you think they were drafted by a liberal crusader for women's rights. The law is presented as protecting a woman's right to know, and to make an informed consent. "Women should not be kept in the dark," argues Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a sponsor of the bill whose stated purpose is "to ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child...
...comes together: Brownback and Congressman Chris Smith argue for a woman's right to understand the experience of the fetus. Their bill would require abortion providers to tell patients that by 20 weeks after fertilization a fetus can feel pain, and to ask if she would like anesthesia for the baby. If she refuses, she would have to sign a waiver. Doctors who fail to follow the rules could face fines up to $250,000. "There is substantial evidence that by this point, unborn children draw away from surgical instruments in a manner which in an infant or an adult...