Word: chairmen
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...each other about establishing a super committee on homeland defense. But setting up a committee with the power to authorize funding will be difficult. There are at least seven committees in the Senate, for example, that would now have jurisdiction over parts of homeland defense. Those seven committee chairmen would have to be convinced to give up slices of their jurisdiction to a new super committee. "The bureaucratic battles are obvious," says a Republican senator who sits on one of those seven committees. "No one wants to give up any power...
...ushering through corridors by the NYSE?s swamped but immaculately mannered press-handlers, we reached our quarantine in the exchange?s ad hoc press pen. A vaulted-ceilinged, red-carpeted, den-of-J.P. Morgan room with a long mahogany table and oil portraits of NYSE chairmen past on rococo-detailed walls. No view of the exchange floor. No windows...
...first time since the 1920s, residents will vote directly for mayor, the result of a new city charter adopted in 1999. The next mayor will enjoy a legislative veto, a term of four years instead of two and appointment power over committee chairmen. "People are looking forward to having someone take charge," says George Bishop, a political-science professor at the University of Cincinnati. "But there's ambivalence about whether Luken should be that person...
...starter in the Senate, even by the White House, and it?s not likely that the 2,000-acre version - given the way it still gets reported as a major Bush victory - has any better chance of making it past Tom Daschle and his Jeffords-installed committee chairmen. Cross...
...commission's co-chairmen, former New York Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and AOL-Time Warner executive Richard Parsons, painted a dire picture in their draft report. Unless repaired, Social Security will need tax increases or "massive" deficit spending by Congress to keep it afloat, their report warns. By 2020, Social Security's shortfall will equal the combined budgets of Head Start, the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, the Environmental Protection Agency, plus the Education and Commerce departments. Baby boomers will be shortchanged. Women, minorities and the poor will suffer...