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Congressman Charles Rangel of New York, a reasonable man who sometimes goes off the deep end, indulged himself last week. "George Bush is our Bull Connor," he told the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, referring to the legendary Birmingham, Ala., police chief who attacked peaceful civil rights marchers with dogs and water cannons in 1963. A few minutes earlier, the entertainer Harry Belafonte had read the riot act to Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...
...Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the prematurely white-haired leader of the House conservative caucus, set the stage for a tense week for the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue when he declared Sunday on ABC?s ?This Week? that to offset the cost of Katrina relief, ?We've got to talk about big ticket items.? He said the nation ?simply cannot break the bank of the federal budget that is currently running about an $8 trillion national debt, about $26,000 per family.? While House Republican leaders do not necessarily disagree with Pence, they have been publicly supportive of the White...
...Mart also inserted itself into political races, to the unions' great irritation. The company donated money to the campaigns of black Congressmen Harold Ford, Charles Rangel and Albert Wynn. And after Wal-Mart gave a lunch for a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus, a small brouhaha between labor and the black caucus erupted. The Service Employees International Union fired off a letter accusing the Representatives of betraying labor. The head of the caucus, Democratic Congressman Mel Watt of North Carolina, bristled at the criticism. "I'm not defending them--I think a lot of their practices are abysmal...
...federal fund to battle child pornography and a 25% tax on Internet pornography transactions. Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois is working on legislation to provide funding to help states track child molesters through Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. A group of senators is talking about forming a "Parents Caucus" that would discuss issues central to family life. "Popular culture and society are undercutting what you're doing as a parent," says Emanuel...
Representative Dave Weldon, Republican from Florida and co-chair of the House Aerospace Caucus, foresees a catfight in Congress over any new space expenditures, especially in an era of again ballooning deficits. "The people who opposed space-flight funding are going to come forward again and voice concerns that we should spend the money on something else," he says. "But we are a nation of explorers, and we'll continue to explore the unknown...