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...original cosponsors are one of the more unlikely political odd couples ever seen in Congress: ultra-conservative Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner and hyper-liberal Texas Democrat Shiela Jackson-Lee. Though they rarely agree on anything, Sensenbrenner and Jackson-Lee say Coleman-Adebayo's testimony at a congressional hearing last fall brought them together on the need for the law. Her story, says Sensenbrenner, made it abundantly clear that new laws "with teeth in them" were required to make the EPA clean...
...Baucus, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said today that "there's a sense that his fixating on not one penny more and not one penny less than $1.6 trillion is beginning to cause a problem...
...when politicians seem more like celebrities than servants of the people, J. Joseph Moakley, a political icon of South Boston, distinguishes himself from the crowd. Describing himself as a "bread-and-butter Democrat," Moakley has toiled in the political arena for nearly 50 years, winning the respect of Congressmen and common citizens alike. In light of this career of unwavering dedication, we were greatly saddened to learn Feb. 12 that Moakley will not be able to seek reelection due to an incurable form of leukemia...
Moakley gained power and influence in the Democrat-controlled House, reaching the pinnacle of his career as chair of the Rules Committee, a final checkpoint for all legislation. In 1989, investigations he pursued helped implicate the military of El Salvador in the murder of six Jesuit priests, a finding that dried up American military aid and hastened the end of El Salvador's civil...
...novelty in many other respects. A lifelong self-styled "Republican feminist," she was initially backed by the Administration of George Bush the Elder for the U.N. job, but she also won the endorsement of the Clinton Administration after her first five-year term. Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, urged Clinton to keep her in Rome after her first term. "She's shown extraordinary ability with no sign of partisan activity, and as a result, she's been enormously effective," Leahy says. When she took over, Bertini had never been to Africa and did not speak French (she still...