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...years. That followed the disclosure days earlier that the White House miscalculated by several billion dollars the cost of subsidies for covering early retirees and for assisting small businesses. ''I don't know how they can put up a bill they can defend,'' says Congressman Jim McDermott, a liberal Democrat and author of a rival proposal. Meanwhile, conservatives in Washington and on the radio talk-show circuit are raising basic questions about the very existence of a detailed plan. In fact, there is a broad program, and constituencies that oppose it are using the current void to make their case...
...months of scrutiny from armies of Washington regulators, Justice Department attorneys and state and local agencies. The key question: whether the nuptials would violate antitrust standards. While the deliberations will probably last until the middle of next year, the deal came under immediate fire from Howard Metzenbaum, the Ohio Democrat who chairs the antitrust panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Metzenbaum vowed to hold hearings and denounced the proposed combination as a ''megamonster'' that could overcharge consumers. Perhaps the biggest question of all last week was why the tough-as-nails Malone, 52, long regarded as the undisputed king...
Nancy Pelosi probably knew that the crowd was not going to be friendly. She may be the top Democrat on Capitol Hill, but on Saturday morning in Austin, Texas, she was the featured guest at a Question and Answer session at Netroots Nation, a yearly blogger conference organized by Daily Kos, the influential political blog founded by Markos Moulitsas. These liberals have not been happy with the Speaker of the House's recent decision to table the issue of impeaching George Bush in Congress...
...self-described mainstream Democrat, Shulman is "outraged" by the direction in which the Bush Administration has taken the country. And despite Garret's advantages of incumbency, he believes he has a decent chance of unseating the Republican. According to his campaign's internal polling, the district has caught the "change" bug: 69% of the district thinks the country is on the wrong track, and even Republican voters overwhelmingly disapprove of President Bush's performance. According to the Shulman numbers, the district's lopsided Republican-to-Democrat registration notwithstanding, an equal number of voters plan to vote Republican (39%) as plan...
...Will his status as a rabbi help him in a district where no more than 10% of the electorate is Jewish? Opinion is divided. David Wasserman, the House Editor at the non-partisan Cook Political Report believes it could count against the Democrat: "My biggest concern about Shulman's viability is that he's a rabbi, and I think voters in this district tend to want to keep religion out of politics," he says. But John McArdle, a staff writer for Roll Call, disagrees: "He draws you in with the story and then he speaks very well about policies," says...