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Most attendees ignored the taunts, although one woman did return the favor, instructing one particularly vocal protestor to "get a fucking...
...negotiated by the Senate, which would have produced a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegal immigrants now in the country, nor the more limited program envisioned by House conservative leader Mike Pence has any momentum. Both proposals have been set aside in favor of a series of bills already making their way through the system that will fund fences, border guards and electronic surveillance...
...shift the terms of the political debate over national security issues. As the Democrats are pointing to U.S. difficulties in Iraq and demanding the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the White House has begun to reemphasize the continuing terror threat to America - an issue that has tended to favor Republicans. The question of what legal rights Congress should legislate for detained terror suspects is also highly contentious, and putting it on the legislative agenda less than a month before the pre-election recess is clearly an attempt to frame the national conversation on terms least favorable to the Democrats...
...daughters as well, and the Japanese royal family seemed in real danger of dying out. With that in mind, last November Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi backed an initiative that would change Japanese law to allow a female - 4-year-old Princess Aiko - to become Empress. Most Japanese were in favor of the new law, thinking that the time had come when a woman could sit on the throne. (In fact, Japan has had several reigning empresses in the past, though none were allowed to pass the throne onto their children.) But the imperial family has long been a rallying point...
...nation's total output, by some estimates. The Clinton Administration did not attack the problem until its final year, when it issued a proposal that would have required a 90% cut in power-plant mercury by 2008. President George W. Bush has discarded the Clinton rule in favor of a looser standard that would result in only a 70% reduction by as late as 2025. What's more, Bush weakened the Clean Air Act's new-source-review rule, which requires power-plant owners to install the best available pollution controls when they make major upgrades that result in increased...