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...challenges to the bill will come both from the left and the right. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has said he will “try anything I can” to prevent the bill’s passage, and our own Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Mass.), who has sponsored the House version in the past, has expressed strong reservations about raising individual spending limits. We are confident that the members who passed this bill in the last Congress despite the parliamentary machinations of the Republican leadership would be able to do so again. But we are highly...
...applaud the vow of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to lead a filibuster to block the energy bill. Moreover, we encourage Congress to pass the bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Nancy L. Johnson (R-Conn.) in the House (as well as Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) in the Senate) to grant the refuge "wilderness" status, effectively putting it off limits to drilling. Beyond the provisions affecting the refuge, much of the Republican bill is worth saving and should be incorporated in any bipartisan compromise, especially the tax incentives for consumers...
...exciting and surprising display of compromise, Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) has stepped over party lines to hammer out a compromise over a patients' bill of rights with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass). The McCain-Kennedy bill defines patients' rights for emergency care and treatment by specialists. But, most importantly, the bill also provides for a new patient's right to sue health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that do not provide adequate care...
...impossible to keep drugs out of a free society like America, and the nation's public policy must change to reflect that reality, said Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) yesterday during a speech at the ARCO Forum...
Last Wednesday night, while speaking to students at the Kennedy School, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) praised Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) for discouraging Democrats from attempting to pass bills when the party temporarily holds a Senate majority between Jan. 3, when the new congress takes office, and Jan. 20, when the president is inaugurated. Kerry noted that the Democrats decided to act like "statespeople." There's a word that hasn't been needed in the past month. Webster's Dictionary defines "statesman" in part as "one who exercises leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship...