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...their opposition to her this week. But in the Senate, which will ultimately decide the nomination's fate, Miers will have a couple of opportunities to build support for herself. After a series of meetings two weeks ago that left many GOP senators underwhelmed, Miers will be back on Capitol Hill this week. The nominee is also expected to return a 12-page questionnaire this week that the Senate gave her last week, which included questions on her views on "judicial activism," cases she's worked on constitutional issues and whether she was asked or made promises to people...
...have a history of resilience: the famous Battle of New Orleans, which decisively ended the War of 1812 and sent the British home in defeat, was fought here. Indeed, by the end of the week the region's take-no-prisoners attitude seemed to be bearing some fruit on Capitol Hill, with Congress hastily approving $1 billion in disaster loans to help devastated Gulf Coast communities pay salaries when tax payments dry up. One beneficiary: New Orleans, where Mayor Ray Nagin last week had to lay off 3,000 employees. At the same time, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
...Miami Herald, Jay rejoined TIME as head of its Miami bureau. Fluent in Russian, Jay went on to serve in Moscow from 1990 to 1993, where he covered the unraveling of the Soviet empire. He then came to Washington, where he covered the Clinton White House, Capitol Hill, the 2000 Bush campaign and finally the Bush White House, and, among other things, was one of the few reporters on Air Force One on 9/11. "When I left Moscow for Washington in the summer of 1993, I had the unsettling feeling that the high point of my life as a journalist...
...absence of a paper trail, with almost no law-journal articles and relatively few case filings to scour, the fight came down to two main issues: competence and character. "Just shut up for a few minutes," advised Senator Lindsey Graham to the critics after he met with Miers on Capitol Hill. "Give the lady a chance, to find...
...comment. But the case is a concern on Capitol Hill. "The timeline," says a spokesman for House Intelligence Committee chair Peter Hoekstra, "will be reviewed." --By Brian Bennett and Timothy J. Burger