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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat before senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday to urge a State Department budget increase of 8.5% and the hiring of 1,100 new staff. Unusually, some lawmakers wished she'd have asked for even more. Senator Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat, told Rice that her request was "small compared to the overall needs." and that U.S. diplomacy was still getting "shortchanged...
...Feingold, for example, wants to see the State Department put more resources into disaster assistance, education and health programs, which he sees as a major part of "building strong nations" and "restoring stability in post-conflict situations." At the moment the State Department and its separately-funded fiefdom, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), are contracting out the vast majority of this work. Rice says she wants her diplomats getting their hands dirty in development work, but lawmakers are growing impatient at what they see is a lack of will to fund the major overhaul and hiring binge that...
...truth is that McCain and Clinton remain far apart on the political spectrum. But it is also true that conservatives have a lengthy bill of complaint against McCain. In the past decade he has joined with Democrats on a series of crusades in Congress - with Russ Feingold on campaign-finance reform and Ted Kennedy on immigration reform - that a majority of Republicans have opposed. He voted against President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and '03, each time citing the need for fiscal restraint. And during his 2000 campaign, he labeled Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell "agents...
McCain is also a major advocate of campaign-finance reform, having crossed party lines to join Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to limit soft money and curb the corruption associated with funding a campaign. He has also publicly condemned pork barrel spending in Congress, which he believes interferes with national interests...
...consistent voting record to verify his unwavering dedication to traditional conservative values. This has enabled him to—more than anyone else—dedicate himself to achieving real solutions for real problems, despite any political risk. He reached across the aisle to work with Democratic Senators Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) and Edward M. Kennedy ’54 -’56 (D-Mass.), respectively, to increase transparency in campaign finance and to tackle the problem of illegal immigration. Whether you look at these initiatives he’s passed in his 25 years in Congress...