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...minority. By constantly staying on top of their individual needs and priorities--he reserves a breast pocket of his jacket for note cards on which he records favors asked and promises made--Reid managed with sheer vigilance and persuasion to keep spotlight-loving Senators like Illinois' Dick Durbin and New York's Chuck Schumer in harness, and unpredictable spirits like Montana's Max Baucus from straying over the fence...
...three Democrats who asked for the GAO study-Rep. Henry Waxman, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Richard Durbin-pounced on its findings as proof once more that corporate greed in health care is shortchanging consumers. "The report shows that much drug industry research doesn't translate into real breakthroughs for patients," says Kennedy. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents the drug industry, fired back that the GAO report only confirms that developing new drugs has become a more expensive, difficult and risky exercise for manufacturers. "Researchers are tackling increasingly complex diseases using new tools-such as genomics...
...Though he was only one of three Republicans against the amendment, McConnell was lying low in the debate, declining to combine his whipping skills with those of his nemesis, Dick Durbin of Illinois, who was rallying Democratic opponents of the Amendment. Supporters were not quite so delicate with him. At a Flag Day celebration earlier this month attended by Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist and Kentucky's other Senator, Jim Bunning, for example, backers trotted out Miss America 2000, Heather French Henry, former Miss America and wife of Kentucky's Democratic Lieutenant Governor, who singled McConnell out and asked...
...Washington version of hell. The two reigning Democratic policy wonks on defense issues led a series of meetings with seven other Senate Democrats in search of a unified plan to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Two of the participants were Harry Reid of Nevada and Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Democrat's leaders in the Senate. The other five are all eyeing a run for President in 2008. Getting Democrats to agree on anything to do with Iraq these days is hard enough. Getting Presidential competitors to do it? Not likely...
...tend to think of being caught crying in public as being exposed - a raw, unvarnished act. It is a way of being emotional, to be sure, yet crying can be a way of avoiding emotional complications; see Randy "Duke" Cunningham?s pre-indictment press conference, or Sen. Dick Durbin?s oddly excruciating apology for comparing Gitmo interrogators to the Nazis...