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...proposal differs from Clinton's in another important way: it has significant bipartisan support. It is sponsored by 50 members of the House, including 22 Republicans; in the Senate eight moderate Republicans and Democrats are writing an almost identical version. So far, only a single Republican in either chamber, Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, has endorsed the Clinton model, while more than 200 Congressmen and Senators have already chosen to support alternative bills. The longer legislators are forced to wait for Clinton's, the more they will be tempted to sign up elsewhere...
...Maverick in Full The U.S. Senate was split down the middle between Democrats and Republicans when Bush took office in January 2001. The Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, knew that all he needed to take control of the chamber was the defection of one Republican. Daschle had three targets, all of whom were finding themselves increasingly alienated from and isolated within the G.O.P.: Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and John McCain of Arizona...
...Indian banker to be denied a flat for rent on the grounds that the landlord doesn't want his property to smell like curry. "This has been going on too long in a city with world-class aspirations," says David O'Rear, chief economist of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, which sat in during the drafting of the law. "It was getting embarrassing...
There's a special place in the United States Senate for the skunk, the single-minded dissident who refuses to go along with the gang and instead uses stubbornness, tenure and the chamber's arcane rules to advance himself and his causes. In the modern Senate, no one played that role as effectively as Jesse Helms, who died early Friday in Raleigh, N.C., at 86. For 30 years, Helms took controversial, sometimes outrageous positions on race, foreign relations and the culture wars, courting controversy and infuriating rivals but often outmaneuvering his centrist and liberal rivals. In the process, he also...
...court agrees to hear in the first place. Under Roberts' leadership, the court has agreed to hear fewer polarizing constitutional cases and more cases of interest to business, which the Justices are more inclined to resolve without dividing along ideological lines. Of the 15 cases in which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed briefs this year, 80% were decided by 7-2 or higher, and a third were unanimous. Roberts told me that he thinks that bipartisan agreement in the less visible business cases can help develop a "culture and an ethos that says, 'It's good when...