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...made remarks defining marriage strictly as a union between a man and a woman. He diplomatically noted, however, that he was “mindful that we’re all sinners.” Other supporters of the ban have not been so evasive. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has equated homosexuality with prostitution and drug abuse, while Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., has compared it to bestiality and polygamy...
...very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend...to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman." BILL FRIST, Senate majority leader, endorsing a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriages...
After President Bush praised the California law in January, Feinstein said she would work with the White House. The next day she got a call from new Senate majority leader Bill Frist. A renowned surgeon, Frist desperately wanted the Senate to pass a bill curbing malpractice-insurance costs. And he just as desperately needed a Democrat to co-sponsor the measure. Feinstein agreed to help...
Feinstein and Frist drafted a compromise. Since California's $250,000 cap was set 28 years ago, says Feinstein, today it would be an inflation-adjusted $780,000. So she and Frist suggested doubling the cap to $500,000. For catastrophic cases that resulted in severe disfigurement, severe physical disability or death, says Feinstein, the cap would be the greater of $2 million or $50,000 times the number of years of life expectancy. The 25 states that have laws limiting damages could keep their caps if they did not want to adopt the Federal Government...
...West Virginia; his mastery of appropriations has funneled billions to the perennially poor state. While Al Gore lost the state in 2000, Byrd won all but seven of its 1,970 precincts. Senators, too, admire his command, seeking him out like a somewhat eccentric sage. When Bill Frist ascended to Byrd's old post as majority leader, the two met for two hours. Hillary Clinton comes by for advice...