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Republicans on Capitol Hill have lost no time translating their electoral success into rapid advances on some of their favorite legislative packages, including changes to the bankruptcy laws and curbs on lawsuits against corporations. They?re also looking at cutting Medicaid, and changing Senate rules to prevent Democrats from filibustering President Bush?s judicial nominees. Clearly, they think they have the Democrats...
...seats in Texas succumb to Republican challenges as a result of mid-decade redistricting. With the Georgia Republican Party planning to repeat the Texas gambit, Democrats are anxious to return fire with mid-decade redistricting efforts in Illinois, Louisiana, and New Mexico, according to a recent report by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. While we understand the Democrats’ frustration, the long-term answer to efforts such as those that occurred in Texas is not retaliation, but reform...
...insurance companies--that want to keep profits up by employing fewer nurses than California law requires. And so the nurses have produced a Hollywood caper of a showdown, putting unrelenting public pressure on Schwarzenegger to back down. In two protests, thousands of uniformed R.N.s stormed the steps of the capitol in Sacramento, shouting, "Arnold, Arnold, you can't hide--we can see your corporate side!" Nurses have buzzed his fund raisers with "Air Arnold" planes that drag banners reading DON'T BE BIG BUSINESS'S BULLY! They picketed a celebrity-studded party the Governor threw at his Brentwood home...
...When Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Capitol Hill for the first time as California's governor in late 2003, he received warm welcomes from both Democrats and Republicans. But when he returns to Washington today the governor will get a chilly reception from California legislators who feel he hasn?t delivered on his promises. During his gubernatorial campaign, Schwarzenegger said he would be the "Collectinator," using his relationships with the White House and Republicans in Congress to get more federal dollars to his state. California at the time received about 79 cents for every dollar it pays in taxes...
...Last weekend a group of more than 50 conservatives called the House Republican Study Committee gathered for their annual retreat at the Marriot Hotel in Baltimore. Despite their modest name, the group is composed of some of the Capitol's staunchest conservatives. In Bush's first term, they quietly complained about policies they abhorred, such as Bush's education law that widely expanded the reach out of the federal government into determining how local schools measured success and huge expansion of Medicare. They're quiet no more. The group, led by Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, put a statement of principles...