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...BEHIND IT Two former Democratic National Committee chairmen, Joe Andrew and Don Fowler, lead a group of party operatives, including former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Tony Coelho, who also chaired Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign...
...served in both world wars. These days, more of them complete their initial enlistment -- 80%, compared to 70% for citizens -- saving the Pentagon millions in training costs. More than 20% of the nation's Medal of Honor winners have been non-citizens, and three of the last five chairmen of the Joint Chiefs -- the nation's top military officer -- have been immigrants or the sons of immigrants. Emilio Gonzalez, head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says he lacks "the eloquence to accurately describe the emotion I feel when signing a posthumous naturalization certificate." He has signed...
...Byrd, a night-school lawyer who is a first-rate legislative technician. His job is to act as the Senate's traffic cop, controlling the flow of legislation and debate. A master of the Senate's rules and precedents, Byrd hustles through an endless round of meetings with committee chairmen, powerful Senate barons and rebellious mavericks, trying to head off trouble ... During last year's session, Byrd's first as majority leader, he ran the chamber with a firm and sure hand that had not been seen since the days when Lyndon Johnson was majority leader. Byrd has an intense...
...President Bush personally met with about one quarter of the U.S. Senate. There was a bipartisan discussion with five Democrats and five Republicans about Iraq on Tuesday morning, followed by another large bipartisan session on immigration. The next day, Bush invited a group of about nine GOP senators, mostly chairmen of key committees, to another meeting in which he listened to their concerns on a wide range of issues. "I think it's a major outreach program," said Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine...
...this month that she could “see Cambridge following in support” of the divestment movement. In New Haven, trustees on the board of each fund met with Alderman Nicholas Shalek and City Controller Mark Pietrosimone to determine the viability of divestment. “Both chairmen said this is something that [they] would fully support,” Pietrosimone said yesterday. Shalek, a Yale graduate of the Class of the 2005, first raised the issue of divestment, Pietrosimone said. Shalek told the Yale Daily News earlier this week that the work of Students Taking Action...