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...years. That followed the disclosure days earlier that the White House miscalculated by several billion dollars the cost of subsidies for covering early retirees and for assisting small businesses. ''I don't know how they can put up a bill they can defend,'' says Congressman Jim McDermott, a liberal Democrat and author of a rival proposal. Meanwhile, conservatives in Washington and on the radio talk-show circuit are raising basic questions about the very existence of a detailed plan. In fact, there is a broad program, and constituencies that oppose it are using the current void to make their case...
...months of scrutiny from armies of Washington regulators, Justice Department attorneys and state and local agencies. The key question: whether the nuptials would violate antitrust standards. While the deliberations will probably last until the middle of next year, the deal came under immediate fire from Howard Metzenbaum, the Ohio Democrat who chairs the antitrust panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Metzenbaum vowed to hold hearings and denounced the proposed combination as a ''megamonster'' that could overcharge consumers. Perhaps the biggest question of all last week was why the tough-as-nails Malone, 52, long regarded as the undisputed king...
...twice been rejected by the A.B.A. ''The White House has to decide if it wants the curtain to come down on the Reagan judiciary in the second term,'' says McGuigan, urging the Administration to push harder against the increased Senate resistance. One member of that resistance, Illinois Democrat Paul Simon, also sees the Manion battle as critical. ''Those appointed to the federal bench for life,'' he says, ''should be the best the legal profession has to offer. Too many clearly are not.'' While the Senate prepared to consider Manion last week, the House was pondering the arduous prospect...
...flight.'' The commission's reluctance to assign personal blame, while excoriating the agency's ''flawed process,'' caused one commissioner, Caltech Physicist Richard Feynman, to seek stronger language. He lost in his attempt to call some of NASA's managers ''stupid,'' but will record his own views in an appendix. Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina insisted hotly at a Senate hearing that someone be held responsible for ''willful gross negligence'' in the tragedy. Replied Rogers: ''I'm not sure picking out any scapegoat and prosecuting would serve the national interest.'' At his press conference last week, the President agreed with...
Nancy Pelosi probably knew that the crowd was not going to be friendly. She may be the top Democrat on Capitol Hill, but on Saturday morning in Austin, Texas, she was the featured guest at a Question and Answer session at Netroots Nation, a yearly blogger conference organized by Daily Kos, the influential political blog founded by Markos Moulitsas. These liberals have not been happy with the Speaker of the House's recent decision to table the issue of impeaching George Bush in Congress...