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...directive] Lanna architecture without, and authentic hill-tribe craftsmanship within, this two-year-old hidden gem comprises just seven suites and four rooms, making it feel less like a hotel and more like the sumptuous home of its Thai owner Wanphen Sakdatorn and her husband, German Honorary Consul Hagen Dirksen...
...immigration is becoming so tricky for the G.O.P. The business interests in the party base don't want to disrupt a steady supply of cheap labor for the agriculture, construction, hotel and restaurant industries, among others. That's why business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to send its bill to the Senate floor, with four of the committee's 10 Republicans joining all its Democrats in favor. So doubtful had been the outcome that there were gasps in the hearing room when Republican chairman Arlen...
...Monday night, Reiff and other business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced each other in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary committee voted 12-6 to send a bill sponsored by chairman Arlen Specter to the floor that swings the momentum back to their side. In a sharp rebuke to Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who had said he would introduce his own, tough counterpart to the House bill, Specter, three other Republicans and all the committee's Democrats united to force a pro-business, pro-immigrant bill through. Said a smiling Reiff minutes after the vote: "Specter...
...bring up his own, tough counterpart to the House bill for a vote, the presidential hopeful is now forced to allow consideration of a guest worker program that has all the hallmarks of the amnesty his potential supporters on the right detest. Emerging from the elevator banks in the Dirksen building as the last of the jubilant business lobbyists was leaving and walking slowly down the hall toward a meeting with the rest of the Republican leadership and Senator Specter, Frist admitted the committee vote had altered his plans: "I'm sure it will shape my thinking," he said with...
There is something different about Dole. He resides in the offices where the grandiloquent Everett Dirksen used to cut deals and drink bourbon. Dirksen was the ultimate Senate creature, as smooth and pliable as the leather chairs in the cloakroom. But Bob Dole has not been captured by his surroundings. He is still off there standing up like a silo on the Kansas prairie. He could be blown down by the political winds. But shouldering against the hot gusts in Washington sometimes builds strength...