Word: congressmen
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...Sachs in New York, noting wryly that the PT used to oppose pension reform. "They understand now that what causes poverty in Brazil is the excessive size of the state." Will Brazil's Congress understand that too? Lula's bond with the governors, who wield considerable influence over their congressmen, was a critical stroke. But the PT holds only 14 of Brazil's 81 Senate seats and 91 of the lower chamber's 513. In a bid for the support necessary to pass the reforms more quickly, Lula took the risky decision to back former President José Sarney...
...memo--the one that leaked and landed her on the front pages of newspapers, that brought her to Washington to face cameras and Congressmen and that helped set off the debate over how to reinvent the FBI--was not meant to be a memo at all. It came tumbling out, almost by accident, because she couldn't hold the words inside anymore...
...phrases like "flight schools"? She was quick to admit what she did not know. When Senator Maria Cantwell asked her what advice she would give the President, she demurred. "I really can't presume to give advice at such a high level," she said. In short, she made the Congressmen look like interns on the set of the Coleen Rowley show. The only time she seemed perplexed during her D.C. visit was when a horde of reporters followed and shouted at her as she tried to hail...
...what China doesn't want. Yet Beijing last week allowed U.S. Senator Sam Brownback?a vocal critic of China's practice of sending refugees back home to face imprisonment or even execution?into the country to inspect the refugee situation along China's border with the North. Some U.S. Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement of refugees with South Korea, Russia, China and other Asian countries, which might make the tactic more palatable to the mainland. But diplomats say by approving Brownback's visit, Beijing may merely be warning North Korea to shape...
...alliance with the U.S. But when National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice met Bandar at the White House last Tuesday, the ambassador had reason to be concerned. Revelations that charitable donations by Bandar's wife Princess Haifa al-Faisal were sent to associates of two Sept. 11 hijackers had some Congressmen questioning Saudi Arabia's commitment to the war on terrorism. And Administration hard-liners were leaking word to the Washington Post of a White House staff proposal to deliver an ultimatum to Riyadh about Saudi financing of terrorists. As soon as Bandar arrived at the West Wing, though, the hard...