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DIED. EMILY COURIC, 54, Virginia state senator; of pancreatic cancer; in Charlottesville. Best known countrywide as the older sister of NBC's Today show co-host Katie Couric, she was regarded at home as a principled but not partisan Democrat who shared her sister's peppy charm. "Pancreatic cancer is not, as my sister says, the cancer of choice," Emily said...
...sole dissenting vote in the Senate came from Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold. "This bill does not strike the right balance between empowering law enforcement and protecting civil liberties," he argued. But while Feingold?s anxieties were echoed among some civil libertarian groups, consensus for the bill is very strong, including among traditionally left-leaning senators like California?s Dianne Feinstein and Patrick Leahy of Vermont...
Once registered as an independent, King switched his registration to Democrat so that he could vote for Gore in last year’s presidential primary...
...conservative California Republican,” Didion describes in the forward how she voted in 1964 for Barry Goldwater, who represented the “keep out of our lives” view of limited government. Eventually, she grew disillusioned with the Republicans, becoming the first registered Democrat in her family. This had less to do with substantive disagreements than with her growing sense of alienation with the Republican party, and Didion began to question the existence of deep differences between America’s two parties...
...measure was sponsored in the House by Rep. Ralph Ragula (R-Ohio), who chairs the subcommittee that funds the DOE, and Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), the ranking Democrat on that subcommittee...