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...office building as the Senate Judiciary committee voted 12-6 to send a bill sponsored by chairman Arlen Specter to the floor that swings the momentum back to their side. In a sharp rebuke to Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who had said he would introduce his own, tough counterpart to the House bill, Specter, three other Republicans and all the committee's Democrats united to force a pro-business, pro-immigrant bill through. Said a smiling Reiff minutes after the vote: "Specter takes a more expansive view of these issues than Sensenbrenner...
...clear loser in this mix is Frist. Having said he'd bring up his own, tough counterpart to the House bill for a vote, the presidential hopeful is now forced to allow consideration of a guest worker program that has all the hallmarks of the amnesty his potential supporters on the right detest. Emerging from the elevator banks in the Dirksen building as the last of the jubilant business lobbyists was leaving and walking slowly down the hall toward a meeting with the rest of the Republican leadership and Senator Specter, Frist admitted the committee vote had altered his plans...
...fund-raising front, Democrats have been surprisingly competitive with the Republicans. In a rare feat for the party, the Democratic senatorial campaign committee has outraised its Republican counterpart. Last year "our bottom-line goal was not to lose any seats," says Charles Schumer, the New York Senator who heads the committee. "Now, if things fall in line, we might even pick up the Senate." Republicans could even lose the Tennessee seat of retiring majority leader Bill Frist to Representative Harold Ford, a Democrat...
...gets around. Downer recently charmed U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her short visit; Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and China's Premier Wen Jiabao are in for a treat, too. Downer's hyper-funny side is in its prime, frequently teased out by his hyperactive Opposition counterpart, Kevin Rudd. Far from the kiss-kiss world of diplomacy, political beasts Downer and Rudd often rumble in their very own hyperbolic chamber. While the prevailing contest is about Australia's participation in Saddam Hussein's corruption of the humanitarian aid program to Iraq, it would be wrong...
...comments in Australia that "all of us in the region, particularly those of us who are longstanding allies, have a joint responsibility and obligation to try produce conditions in which the rise of China will be a positive force in international politics, not a negative force" prompted her Australian counterpart, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to state that "We don't support a policy of containment of China." And, of course, Rice's comments will be perceived in Beijing as just that, further evidence of a "containment" strategy...