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...challenge is different when his party is in charge. The newly empowered Democratic committee chairs are aching to flex their muscles. Labor chairman Edward Kennedy wants to write a "clean" bill raising the minimum wage, but Reid doubts it could pass without including tax breaks for business that Republicans are demanding. Even Reid's freshmen are uppity. When he called Virginia's Senator Jim Webb to inform him of his committee assignments--the standard backwater spots that junior members are usually consigned to--Webb demanded "A" assignments on both Armed Services and Foreign Relations. Since Webb's surprise victory gave...
...Republicans insist they won't take it lying down this time around. They say they'll flex their power to block passage of spending items - which require a two-thirds majority in both houses that Democrats can't muster without their help - as a way to force themselves into the horsetrading sessions. Having received assurances from the Governor that deficit reduction is a priority and that he won't raise taxes, the G.O.P. has installed new statehouse leaders who say they intend to hold him to his word - and to keep him from completely caving to Democrats. "If we have...
...work together to develop alternative fuel sources. Look for more tax credits and subsidies to help companies develop green and renewable energy. The President, who said in his last State of the Union address that "America is addicted to oil," is scheduled to talk up hybrid and ethanol-powered flex-fuel cars this week. And his market-centric approach may find an ally in Michigan's John Dingell, the Democrat who will be in charge of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Unlike many of his party colleagues, Dingell, a friend of his state's auto industry, is against mandating...
...Lebanon's civil war] divides power among religious groups, regardless of demographic changes," said Rami Rayess, a spokesman for the Progressive Socialist Party, the leading Druze faction of Siniora's coalition. According to Rayess, Shi'ite parties, who represent the fastest growing part of Lebanon's population, want to flex their muscles after what they see as Hizballah's "Divine Victory" over Israel this summer. "We have the fear that national unity is a cover for undermining Taif...
When St. Martin's press begins promoting the latest work from novelist K'wan next month, the campaign won't look like the marketing for, say, the corporate thrillers of Joseph Finder. Funkmaster Flex, the hip-hop evangelist, is closer to the flavor. K'wan's reading audience is loyal--he has more than 400,000 books in print. But titles like Gangsta, Road Dawgz and his latest, Hood Rat, have captured an audience well outside St. Martin's usual purview. So instead of signings at Barnes & Noble, St. Martin's is planning giveaways and readings in barber shops...