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...Lieberman is having a not-so-secret affair on his political spouse of the past four decades. The Connecticut Senator - now an Independent, but until 2006 a staunch Democrat, married to the party - is not just campaigning for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain; he is, to even the most objective eye, in a deep state of rapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Democrat Crosses Party Lines | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

...long as Democrats need him to hold on to power, Lieberman realizes that comments like these make him untouchable. "Without him we would not be in the majority," says Dick Durbin, the second highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate. "He votes with us on virtually every issue except for the war and, of course, his support for Senator McCain. There is disappointment, for sure, and many people have expressed concern about his role, but he's going to have to make that decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Democrat Crosses Party Lines | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

Passions don't shake out neatly along party lines. Republican John McCain wove frantically through last winter's debates trying to avoid the scarlet A-for-amnesty. His sin was promoting a "pathway to citizenship" for undocumented workers. Democrat Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, tripped on a debate question about driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Senator Barack Obama has stepped carefully with the issue, voting for the fence and for more agents on the border while saying that this covers "only one side of the equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...want to secure our borders, but we can't wall ourselves off from Mexico," says Representative Ciro Rodriguez, a Texas Democrat whose district covers 585 miles (941 km) of the southern U.S. border--more than a quarter of its total length. Given the historic ties, family ties and economic ties connecting the two countries, the long-term solution to border security is a robust Mexican economy. "Mexico is the No. 1 trading partner of Texas," Rodriguez says. "If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Last fall, Grassley and Senator Herbert H. Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, introduced the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which will require companies to report payments that they make to doctors. Legislation for the Sunshine Act, which has recently secured endorsements last month from pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and Merck, is currently pending...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Reexamine Conflicts of Interest Policy | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

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