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Both the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the House Armed Services Committee were on the record strongly opposing a draft and the bill. A week ago, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News wrote that H.R. 163 had “virtually no support on Capitol Hill.” Indeed, until Tuesday, the bill had seen its last action twenty months ago, when it was referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need...
...source says the idea was to help such candidates--whose opponents might be receiving covert backing from other countries, like Iran--but not necessarily to go so far as to rig the elections. But lawmakers from both parties raised questions about the idea when it was sent to Capitol Hill. In particular, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi "came unglued" when she learned about what a source described as a plan for "the CIA to put an operation in place to affect the outcome of the elections." Pelosi had strong words with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in a phone call...
Affectionately referred to as Boston’s kid brother by most Bay Staters, Providence lies just a couple miles south of the Massachusetts border. Long under the control of Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, Rhode Island’s state capitol has found a new mayor in David Cicilline, a former defense attorney who has revitalized the city. One of Cicilline’s initiatives is “destination Providence,” a magazine published twice a year to showcase the city’s arts scene. Also worth checking out are Providence?...
...More than 1,000 copies of the slim volume were distributed at the U.N. General Assembly last week, and another 1.5 million will go to Dutch citizens. In October, the 56 photographs in the book will be blown up and displayed in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington DC, in an exhibition supported by DATA, the anti-poverty group co-founded by Irish singer and activist Bono, of the band U2, who wrote the song whose lyrics supply the book's only words. "If you look at the book, there are only questions," says Veenman. "I don't give...