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...playing both parts himself last week. As his committee oversaw a grumpy hearing of dueling historians, all debating the question of just what is an impeachable offense, Hyde sighed into his microphone, "God, I'd like to forget all of this." Then he pulled himself together and allowed that Congress had a constitutional duty to go forward anyway...
...Clinton will not be impeached, that consensus has been wrong on nearly every matter of consequence all year. And there's still the messy question of how to stop "the process." In an op-ed piece last week in the New York Times, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter suggested that Congress simply set the case aside and leave it for Starr to pursue after Clinton leaves office two years from now. Sources tell TIME that Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, even sent a memo to House Speaker-in-waiting Bob Livingston and other Republican leaders that urged...
...intentions clear. Livingston has been offering lip service both to those who would end it and those who believe the President's behavior is too serious to ignore. But friends are sure he's eager to get the thing wrapped up before he takes command of the next Congress in January. Representative Billy Tauzin, one of Livingston's fellow Louisiana Republicans, says, "He'd like to see the preoccupation with scandal end." Who wouldn't? But not everyone in Washington is ready yet to call it quits...
Each year the EPA compiles a catalog of the toxic chemicals discharged into the environment. Congress ordered the accounting after a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing thousands of people--and after the company released a smaller quantity of an equally toxic gas from its plant in Institute, W.Va., less than a year later...
...courts. However, despite their flaws, felony disenfranchisement laws are explicitly allowed under the United States Constitution. The 14th Amendment acknowledges the ability of states to restrict their suffrage "for participation in rebellion, or other crime," and the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that "this language was intended by Congress to mean what it says." Only one exception has been found, namely disenfranchisement for a specifically racist purpose. However, felony disenfranchisement laws are ostensibly race-neutral, and unless the racial bias is explicit, the courts will not intervene...