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...House side, only the ranking Ways and Means members--Republican Representative Bill Thomas and Democrat Charles Rangel--were involved in late-hour haggling. Among the Senators, the conferees included Republicans Charles Grassley, Trent Lott and Don Nickles and Democrats Max Baucus, Tom Daschle, Jay Rockefeller and John Breaux. But for most of the final 48-hour marathon to complete the bill on the Thursday and Friday before Memorial Day, only Grassley, Thomas, Breaux and Baucus were actually in the room...
Rangel, who at one point during negotiations was asked to leave the room because the Republicans wanted to negotiate among themselves out of earshot of a Democrat, calls the bill "a fraud on the American people." He and others charge that the bill underestimates the true cost of the tax cuts by half a trillion dollars and that it is aimed squarely at the richest Americans...
...what does this mean for L.A.? Well, we already knew the next mayor of the city was going to be a Democrat. The only question was, which one? Now we know. Hahn, like Villaraigosa would have, will focus on issues such as crime (his favorite, since he's been a prosecutor for so many years), housing, education (as much as a mayor can), and even that old perennial problem here, traffic. But the first issue he should tackle is repairing his relationship with his own party. The state Democratic Party worked avidly against him, and as late as last night...
...There is not a strong-mayor system in Los Angeles. The mayor has limited power and is in a non-partisan position. Whoever the mayor is, whether he is a moderate Republican or a moderate Democrat, is going to be pulled in many directions by all the different constituencies in Los Angeles...
That's why both Hahn and Villaraigosa, although they both have liberal Democrat records, have been stressing moderate positions because it worked for Riordan...