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...while Congress was passing the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Attorney General was writing far-reaching rules of his own and issuing them through the Federal Register. "We felt that we had been asked for and had given the Administration the tools it needed to fight terrorism," says Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin. Its unhappiness at being kept in the dark is the reason the Senate Judiciary Committee called Ashcroft in this week to explain himself...
...forum for positioning, not analysis, and so when Minority Leader Trent Lott calls the Senate a "black hole of inaction" and wonders if it's time to "cut bait" on an economic stimulus package, you have to consider that at least partly bluff. But when the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, Majority Whip Harry Reid, declares legislative black holes a good thing - "Thank goodness we're here and we're in control of the Senate" - you have to consider the possibility that America will not be getting an economic stimulus package for Christmas this year...
...where was Daschle on Sunday? Letting Harry Reid do the snarling, waiting to see if stopping the Republicans is enough of a battle cry for a Democrat-led Senate to get by on and standing by to swoop in with a compromise if the national mood demands it. But if Daschle can spike the stimulus package and get away with it, then it has an even better chance of working nine months from now in 2002. And if it works in the 2002 mid-terms, well, "I led the do-no-harm Congress" is a good a campaign slogan...
Douthat has always stood apart from the crowd. As the sole Republican in a “staunch, hardline-Democrat family”, he formed his conservative worldview from an early age as “a way of rebelling against my parents?...
...last week, investigators hunting for the anthrax killer had just three pieces of forensic evidence: the anthrax-tainted letters sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, the New York Post and Senator Tom Daschle. The discovery of a fourth letter, this one sent to Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, and the probable existence of a fifth, sent to the State Department, could revitalize a case that has seemed in danger of stalling. The Leahy letter was unopened and had yet to be irradiated, which should give epidemiologists the ability to trace the lineage of the spores inside. The postmark, which...