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Backers of the current effort have been heartened by the apparent swell of interest in the idea, especially since a similar measure stalled in the Senate two years ago. And crucially, Obama supports the idea, unlike his predecessor. Yet the bill faces an uphill climb, even if it gets to the President's desk. Long legal challenges are a certainty, and many observers - including the respected Congressional Research Service - think the Supreme Court may consider the law an overreach. "Under that power, they could create 20 seats for military areas. Or they could give 10 seats to Puerto Rico," George...
...horse. Many health-care analysts hope to see more details of the President's plan during a White House health-care summit expected at the end of next week - but they may be looking toward the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Unlike the failed 1994 Clinton health-care-reform effort, this isn't going to be a bill that the Executive Branch drafts in isolation and then tries to ram down the throats of Congress. Instead, Congress - particularly a working group convened by longtime health-care-reform advocate Senator Edward M. Kennedy - is working on a consensus solution following...
...year and is working hand-in-hand with Kennedy - Baucus' staff has often been in the room when stimulus negotiations allowed them the time - has said that he expects to hold hearings in the spring. By all accounts, the bill will go through the usual committee process in an effort to draw as much bipartisan support as possible. Democrats control the Senate with 58 votes - two votes short of preventing a Republican filibuster, so at least some GOP support must be drawn. There has been concern among the stakeholders that the Republicans have not been in any of the meetings...
...recent events have caused concern among Pakistan's Western allies, who hope to see a tougher government crackdown on militancy - and, at least in Swat, have emboldened the militants, who believe they have prevailed over the government's effort to militarily dislodge them...
...task will not be easy. In its effort to control the escalating crisis, the army reasserted its power this week, encircling the BDR headquarters with tanks and moving soldiers into position around it. As army helicopters hovered over the building throughout the day, the mutineers shot at them, demanding the tanks and troops be withdrawn before they would agree to any further talks. So far, most of the other BDR camps around the nation have been calm, but not all of them. In Khulna, a city in southern Bangladesh, the BDR soldiers, inspired by their colleagues' revolt, took control over...