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California Democrat Zoe Lofgren characterizes Graham?s bill as an attempt "to alter the Constitution through statute." Thursday, Lofgren, who also sponsored an unsuccessful alternative to Graham?s 1999 bill, presented a rider that would have enhanced penalties for anyone who attacks a pregnant woman (whether the pregnancy was known to the attacker or not), but would have classified such an act as a single-victim crime. Voted down in 1999, Lofgren?s alternative was defeated Thursday as well...
...China's official reaction denouncing the comments was predictable. Bush?s comments put him on a slippery slope, because they diverge from the "strategic ambiguity" tack that has defined the relationship for Washington all these years. Republican and Democrat administrations - including President Bush's father - have since Nixon's opening to Beijing embraced "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan...
Although I proudly wear a pin that declares, “Friends Don’t Let Friends Vote Democrat,” and I fervently support free market economics, I worry about my observer status during the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) takeover this past week...
...positions in 1995—Perlstein argues that Clinton actually took many of his positions from Goldwater’s example. While his assertion that Clinton and Goldwater share many of the same stances is doubtful, Perlstein’s essential point is correct. Post-Reagan, only a New Democrat like Clinton could have retaken the White House from the GOP. The entire underpinning of American politics had changed by the 1990s. But while Perlstein astutely tells the story of Goldwater’s rise to national prominence, he fails to deliver the powerful ending his introduction describes, only hinting...
...failed to win fast-track authority - the ability to pass trade bills without worrying about legislative amendments - from a U.S. Congress skeptical of the White House commitment to protecting American jobs. Labor and environmental standards are "directly relevant to the structure of international competition," argues Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives trade subcommittee. "There are 130 free-trade agreements around the world, and the U.S. is part of just two," ripostes Zoellick, who adds that pursuing such regional trade agreements as the FTAA could kick-start stalled negotiations for a new global round of tariff...