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...some even changed their mind, persuaded by new arguments and old loyalties to make a leap of faith. No one knew as the week went on how it would turn out; every day brought another threat to the bill's survival, and the best head counters in the chamber were stumped about who would act as saboteur, who would turn out to be a savior...
...only the beginning. If McCain-Feingold passes, it's on to the House, where Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's long-standing shadow in the lower chamber, has passed by comfortable margins for years. But with Bush deferring the villain's role to Congress, if the reliable Senate backstop falls, DeLay is vowing to step into the Mitch McConnell role and do whatever it takes to stop the House from meeting McCain halfway. Shame, after years of high-pitched support, may keep Senate Democrats in line, but the wider (and more anonymous) bipartisan coalition that backs the ban in the House...
...strongly support the idea of backdating tax relief to get cash into consumers' hands as quickly as possible," the President told the Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday afternoon. "We need an immediate stimulus for our economy...
...Bundesrat has long been a reassuringly sleepy chamber. Composed of representatives of the 16 German states, the upper house of parliament normally can be counted on to approve new legislation without raising a fuss. All that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
...Nebraskans are eager to continue civilian visits to their sub. On March 21, Johanns boarded the USS Nebraska at the Kings Bay, Ga., Naval Submarine Base, along with 10 other prominent Cornhuskers: the presidents of the Nebraska Cattlemen's Association and Omaha Chamber of Commerce, a radio personality, a handful of industry leaders, and the coach of the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, who presented the crew with a volleyball signed by the players (who had just won the NCAA championship...