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...force of law and require TV and radio stations to provide a balance of polticial opiions, has passed the Senate and been sent to the House. Some fans of RUSH LIMBAUGH believe the bill is intended to sap the power of the conservative commentator, but a spokesman for Congressman John Dingell says this isn't so: "The world does not revolve around Limbaugh, although he's large enough...
...served as part of a cold war strategy to deceive the Soviets into spending their way into oblivion to counter SDI, similar misinformation was provided to Congress to persuade it to fund the program with huge sums -- $31 billion to date. Clearly stung, Defense Secretary Les Aspin, a former Congressman, ordered an internal investigation at the Pentagon. Said he: "Any allegation that the Congress has been misled raises serious questions." Said Senator David Pryor, whose long-standing probe of SDI seems to have triggered the revelations: "It could totally discredit the testing process and the credibility of the Pentagon...
Canny West Virginia Congressman Harley Staggers pushed the rails into the modern world in 1980 with a deregulation bill that allowed the lines to make quick market adjustments of fees and practices. The rails shrank their lines a third (to 196,081 miles), sweated employment from more than half a million to 280,000, doubled freight-car capacity by stacking containers, curbed damage to products. They hauled 40% more freight with 40% fewer cars, bored out mountain tunnels to take the 20-ft.-high stacks, lowered roadbeds beneath highways and city streets, upgraded beds and bridges and steel rails...
...congressional liberals are still bound to resist expanding capital punishment, especially given the absence of evidence that doing so will actually prevent violent crime. "If you can show me how adding 50 more death- penalty provisions is going to deter one person, then I am for it," says Michigan Congressman John Conyers, a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus. "Why not 100 more? How about I reach your 100 and I bid 110, and someone else that's tougher on crime is for 150? So what? The one thing that's been proved in my 30 years in this business...
Liberals did find some things to cheer, however, such as the more holistic approach to drug offenders. "If you have mandatory drug treatment in the prisons, you can get a lot done," says New York Congressman Charles Schumer. "You say to criminals, 'You're not getting out of jail till you're drug- free.' " Others applauded the $100 million in grants to schools to develop anticrime programs, and the idea of sending young, first-time offenders to boot camps, where they get heavy discipline and a second chance, rather than sending them to jail for their graduate training in criminal...