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...critics who say Obama has allowed congressional Democrats to turn health-care reform into a partisan enterprise that will raise taxes on the rich without controlling costs or solving many of the health-care system's biggest problems. And it is the committee's chairman, the 20-term Congressman from Harlem, N.Y., who is taking the most heat. (Watch TIME's video "Inauguration Celebration in Harlem...
...particular cast of Gates' defenders. There was Deval Patrick, the fresh-faced black governor of Massachusetts, who called the arrest "every black man's nightmare." There was Vernon Jordan, noting that the event "tells us that the election of Barack Obama did not automatically erase racism." There was former Congressman Harold Ford, moderate to a fault, passionately insisting that once Sergeant James Crowley realized Gates had not broken into his own home, the officer should have said, "I'm sorry you're upset, sir. We're going to leave." And then, of course, there was the President of the United...
...them, Democrats are clamoring for a clearer idea of where the President stands on some of the thornier issues, like who should be taxed - and how much - to cover the uninsured. "They want to make sure what they are voting on will be there in the end," says Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney. "This is a unique role the White House can play." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...likely have competition, however. Rand Paul, a physician from west Kentucky and the son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, told TIME on July 28 that he is close to deciding to make a run for the now open seat for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. "I am leaning that way, and I will have an announcement within a week or two," he said...
Simmons, a former Congressman, casts himself as the go-getter. With 22 years of legislative experience, Simmons says he will be effective “from day one.” He is prepared: From 1981 to 1985, he was staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I briefed Mitch McConnell when he first came to the Senate. The Senate is not a new institution to me,” Simmons said. But this experience may be a liability if voters want change. Still, Simmons argued, “Do you want someone in Washington...