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...says there is no chance the training program will be up and running by that date. Proponents are outraged, claiming that the agency is quietly working to quash the program. "The TSA is trying to make arming pilots more complicated than it is," says Congressman John Mica, the Florida Republican who pushed the bill. "It's not the Manhattan Project...
...allow George Bush to use force against Iraq, only one had a child serving in the enlisted ranks of the military. Would Congress and the American public be so eager to wage war if everyone's son and daughter might be called to fight? Charles Rangel, the veteran Democratic Congressman from New York, doesn't think so. Complaining that the military's all-volunteer force has left the risks of combat largely to minorities and the poor, who are more likely to join the military for a better job, Rangel has joined with South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings...
...Economics concentrator, Moore is also an enthusiastic Republican. After working for Louisiana Congressman John Cooksey for two summers as an intern at the Capitol, Moore was hooked...
...dividends when they would rather invest the money elsewhere. This time most companies have kept quiet--in part, congressional sources say, because they fear getting on the wrong side of a White House that is known to have a long memory. "The White House is pressuring them," says Congressman Bob Matsui, a California Democrat who is a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and who is close to Silicon Valley technology interests. "[But] I don't know of any group of businesses that are pushing this thing...
UPHELD. Extension Of Copyright Law, by the U.S. Supreme Court; in Washington. The 1998 law, sponsored by Congressman Sonny Bono, extended copyright protection for 20 years, preventing thousands of well-known works, including early Mickey Mouse cartoons and the Gershwin classic Rhapsody in Blue, from passing into the public domain...