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...discovery wasn't reported to the federal Agriculture Ministry until May 23."This new scandal marks the final failure of Ms. Künast's plan to make food production safer with a one-sided policy of fostering organic farming," declared the opposition Christian Democrat Union. Replied Künast, a former Green Party chairwoman in the ruling coalition: "We must find out who knew what and when and failed to pass on the information." Organic farming has surged in the year since the "mad cow" crisis. Bioland, the largest ecological farming association, reported a 15% rise in membership. Still...
...known what was coming on Sept. 11--helped stiffen spines. Republicans pointed out that members of congressional intelligence committees get the same information the President receives in his PDB and yet had not made a fuss about the Aug. 6 briefing. That claim was disputed; Tom Daschle, the Democrat's leader in the Senate, insisted the Senate and the Administration did not have "identical information" about al-Qaeda threats...
...Members of Congress were readily available for comment along the usual lines. There was the always-reliable (and understandable) "why didn't you tell us before?" complaint, voiced with equal brow-furrowing by top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle and top Republican spy-watcher Richard Shelby. There was the hunt for some serious White House negligence, headed up by House Minority Leader Dick "full investigation" Gephardt. And there was a third response, something Fleischer probably wished the White House reporters had been thinking all along: There is nothing scandalous about this...
Pelosi is working hard to prevent that prediction from coming true. During a House Democratic retreat in Pennsylvania in January, she brought in her team of California consultants to lecture party bosses on how to win back the chamber. Organize better at the grass roots, they said, and stop wasting dollars on congressional districts where the Democrat has no chance of winning. "I have a reptilian approach," she says. "You have to be very cold-blooded in how you allocate resources." So the party is bypassing races in Ohio and Michigan, where redistricting has given Republicans the edge, and targeting...
...staunch Democrat, Galbraith praised former President Ronald Reagan for enjoying the presidency far more than actual involvement in policymaking, and said that he must be one of the few Democrats in America yearning for the days of the Reagan administration “over our current situation...