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Many people have criticized your hands-off approach as DNC chairman. Is that fair? Marc Elliott Levy, WASHINGTON...
...Washington, D.C., also alleges that the Department of Homeland Security may be favoring wealthy landowners by routing the fence away from their property. "I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, the coalition chairman, says in the suit...
...Still, Hodgkin's cancer is very different from a brain tumor, which has more potential to affect cognitive abilities and decision-making processes. If Kennedy were to eventually consider a leave of absence, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland would likely become acting HELP Committee chairman (Chris Dodd and Tom Harkin are more senior but both have their own committees to run: banking and agriculture, respectively). Anyone who knows Kennedy knows that he lives for his work, his family, his dogs and his boat. And Kennedy recently signed a record publishing deal for his memoirs. For now the Massachusetts senator plans...
...those provisions is a move to expand unemployment insurance sponsored by none other than Kennedy. And that's just one of nearly a dozen bills on his plate as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, fondly known as the HELP committee. Other Kennedy bills pending before the committee or the full Senate include bipartisan legislation to modernize medical records; the reauthorization of both the Higher Education Act and No Child Left Behind; mental health parity legislation; a bill to ensure fair pay to women, which was defeated three weeks ago but which Kennedy swore...
...Other senators have battled cancer and remained in office. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is currently receiving chemotherapy for his second bout with Hodgkin's disease. He not only remained in office during his first rounds of treatment; he was a very active chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shepherding through two Supreme Court judicial nominees...