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...energy bill. Unions hated the now-dead immigration bill. Seniors want their drug prices lowered. Every voter-regardless of party-wants the House ethics rules changed. "We're not satisfied with the pace of change, but we are going in a different direction than the Republican set," says Rahm Emanuel, the architect of the 2006 House takeover. "Now, we have things we have to do to both look better and alter people's perspective-no doubt about...
...Despite the poll numbers, Emanuel claims he isn't worried yet. A Democracy Corps poll of the top 35 vulnerable Democratic districts last month found that when voters are given actual candidates to choose from, Democrats are maintaining a comfortable lead-most of them top their Republican competitors by double digits. "When 72% of the country thinks things are heading in the wrong direction, they're not going to feel good about anything," Emanuel, said...
...panels ranged from the ethical dilemmas surrounding government responses to genocide, to the proper allocation of healthcare services, to wages for service employees at wealthy universities. “These problems are real, they are hotly debated...and they need to be solved,” said Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a former fellow and prominent bioethicist who spoke in one of the panels. The audience included movie star John Malkovich and Academy Award–nominated producer Andrew Karsch, among others. Part of the weekend affair spotlighted Thompson’s work. He has led the center since its inception...
...appreciated Nancy Gibbs' writing and Hector Emanuel's photography. Nothing like the V.T. shooting has happened here, and I am extremely thankful that I now have a better understanding of the event and, therefore, deeper sympathy. The photos were very beautiful and painfully haunting. The one of Cho with the gun pointed at the camera was particularly troubling. I had never been moved to tears by a photo before. Thank you most of all for putting pictures of victims on the cover rather than a picture of the murderer...
...Levin also supports a proposal by Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois: "Give him the funds until September, but ask that he bring back the [Baker-Hamilton] Iraq Study Group to report then on three issues-whether the surge is working, whether the Iraqi government is meeting the benchmarks that even the President agrees need to be met, and how the U.S. military is standing up to the strain on its resources." A number of Senators told me they thought the idea was "ingenious," but one of them said, "Sure, but do you think Bush will approve even that...