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...prosecuting the industry further. Another round of federal excise taxes, championed by Clinton, is not in the offing. To pre-empt harsher regulations and win protection against future lawsuits, Philip Morris is even asking Congress to grant the FDA limited oversight. Such longtime foes as Illinois Senator Dick Durbin are nonplussed. "It's laughable," he says, referring to the DOJ's settlement talks. "In a real negotiation, they could have included [FDA] regulation with teeth. Now they'll be lucky to get anything...
...office switchboards were lit up all day. McCain's Straight Talk America cyberoperation would put out an alert if a member was wandering off the reservation. "Literally, within an hour, we'd have complaints on the Senate floor" from the Senator in question, says strategist Rick Davis. Illinois' Dick Durbin, whose vote was in question, at one point came up to McCain on the floor and, according to Davis, said, "Look, I'm going to vote with you guys. Tell your people to cease and desist...
...Russ Feingold, acknowledging that the courts might well strike Snowe-Jeffords down, called it a baby-and-bathwater issue and quoted his partner McCain: "Non-severability is French for 'kill campaign finance reform,'" Feingold said, "and I think he's right." Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who still hasn't gotten over Rehnquist's deciding Florida vote, announced that the conservative court had too much power already - and that campaign finance reform was worth risking an imbalance down the road...
...nothing to do with his qualifications and everything to do with his lifestyle. Ashcroft would refuse even to meet with judicial nominees he opposed to hear their side of the story. "I have found him on a personal basis to be very cordial and courteous," says Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin, who claims he hasn't yet made up his mind on how he will vote. "But when we have run into political differences, I have found him to be very rigid and inflexible...
...share his views; but, Democrats charge, that was one tradition Ashcroft did not honor himself. "Many of the pleas for fairness that will be made at his hearing were the same pleas that we made of him during the past few years when it came to judicial nominees," Durbin says. "You can understand why a lot of us are listening to these pleas for fairness with mixed feelings...