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...left his Administration's pro-trade credibility in tatters. It also opened the door to countries like China throwing up pet barriers of their own. All in the name of about 800,000 voting steelworkers and retirees in West Virginia (and part of Pennsylvania), their unions, and their unions' congressmen...
...Make sure he gets paid. Zoellick, embarrassed enough, didn't get specific Tuesday about how the decision helped Bush "manage the home front," but everybody knew what he was talking about. The White House can now go to the steel unions and rust-belt congressmen Bush just bailed out and present the bill: Passage of fast track...
...Last December, the Democratic-controlled Mississippi state government approved a redistricting plan that, of course, helped Democrats, particularly in the newly consolidated 4th District where Democratic Rep. Ronnie Shows would have to face Republican Rep. Chip Pickering. (The two congressmen are running against each other because Mississippi's dwindling population resulted in the loss of one seat.) Pickering immediately cried foul, complaining that the plan was drawn up so that it would be "the most favorable to Democrats...
...meeting: "Of course! The forum in Boston!" With his glad-handing complete, Bono?founder, spokesman and chief benefactor of DATA, a nonprofit, debt-relief advocacy group?sat down at the edge of the table and, at 1 a.m., recounted the details of his early-morning session with 30 Republican Congressmen. "I am not willing to give up on the Republicans," he said of his efforts to convert the Congressmen on debt relief and increased aid to Africa. "They're tough, but they're willing to listen...
...glue that holds Cuba together,” as Coyula-Cowley says, and the only dictator clever enough to get people to call him by his first name. Why, everybody loves “Fidel”—especially the movie stars, left-of-left congressmen, and American academics who are always flying down to hobnob with...