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Capuano was asked one question about the Corporate Fraud Reform Bill passed recently by the Senate. Capuano said the bill that passed was almost identical to a Democrat-proposed bill voted down in the House...
...That may be, but the signals are also scaring people at home and overseas who don't share Bush's obsession with Baghdad. That partly explains why even though the President insists he has made no decisions on Iraq, others are plunging ahead with the debate. Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden held two days of hearings last week in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in search of answers about the urgency of the Iraqi threat and what kind of action is needed. Biden is moderately hawkish on the issue and has signaled to Bush that he will back him against Saddam...
...best sign that Congress got its mojo working was movement on the politically explosive question of whether and how to provide prescription-drug benefits to the elderly. Few expected anything more than theater in the Senate. But quickly enough, Florida Democrat Bob Graham and Oregon Republican Gordon Smith proposed the outlines of a viable bipartisan compromise--one that offers full coverage to people with incomes under 150% of the poverty level and modest discounts to those earning more. Some Democratic strategists were worried that the party could be ceding one of its best issues this fall; one groused that...
Yoder's calls and letters touched many. Reporter George Pawlaczyk of the Belleville News-Democrat began writing stories about Yoder, and other papers followed. A columnist for the Natal Witness, South Africa's oldest newspaper, took up Yoder's cause. So did Dr. Patch Adams. Adams worked in the er at St. Elizabeths, a Washington mental hospital, during the '70s and '80s. Previously, in 1963, he was himself a patient at a psychiatric hospital for two weeks. He says he learned more from fellow patients than the distant doctors, and he felt a personal connection to Yoder's case...
...John S. McCain are national security experts based on their experiences as members of several Senate committees, including the Armed Services committee, few know that Sen. Mary Landrieu serves as the chair of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee or that Rep. Nancy Pelosi is the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee...