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...years later, as the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is marked this week, the antiabortion movement finds itself at a moment of both possibility and tension. Some think Bush has lived up to the promise of that early victory. "He's been a star," says Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, one of the House's leading abortion foes. But others say the President is in danger of squandering what they see as the biggest opportunity abortion opponents have had since Roe to severely restrict--maybe even ban--abortion. "He has tremendous political capital, and I wish...
...Congressman Barney Frank, ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee (which oversees government housing agencies), is not kind about the Bush Administration's intentions. "They are just lying when they say they have a housing program," he says. And of the additional $35 million pledged to end chronic homelessness, Frank says, "it's not only peanuts; it's taking the peanuts from one dish and putting them in another." In fact, in October the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that, if it becomes law, will cut $938 million from the President's budget for rental vouchers...
...UPHELD. EXTENSION OF U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW; by the U.S. Supreme Court; in Washington, D.C. The 1998 law, sponsored by then 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...
...intricate research can proceed is by keeping it away from charlatans. "I knew they would have a very damaging impact on the cloning debate. First, they would just plain scare people," Caplan notes. "The Raelians are not the picture you want in people's minds when they write their Congressman about cloning...
...over. The Philippines, she said, is "now closer to the category of backward countries, wherein powerful, selfish interests are able to exploit poverty and ignorance." She also complained of a political atmosphere filled with "poison"-presumably a reference to fierce criticism of her husband and his alleged dealings with Congressman Mark Jimenez, who was extradited to the U.S. last month on fraud charges...