Word: hagel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...surprise that last week, as McCain launched yet another attempt, the bouquet of flowers he received came not just from a Republican but from one sponsoring a rival bill that could kill McCain's. "It was a big day for John," says Nebraska's Chuck Hagel, who sent the flowers. A fellow Vietnam veteran, Hagel addressed the card to Captain McCain and signed it Sergeant Hagel...
...between the starchy conservative Orrin Hatch and the overstuffed liberal Ted Kennedy seemed real at first, then devolved into an obvious put-on and finally ended in a hug as the gallery broke into applause. Similarly, after the Democrats' floor manager, Chris Dodd, gave an impassioned speech on Friday, Hagel dismissed him as a fine Irish actor - and they too smoothed their differences with...
...Including caps on carbon dioxide emissions as part of a multiple emissions strategy would lead to an even more dramatic shift from coal to natural gas for electric power generation and significantly higher electricity prices," Bush wrote in his March 13 letter to Chuck Hagel informing Congress of his change in policy. A few days later, Christie Whitman (whose own wishful thinking had probably gotten Bush into the mess in the first place) finally climbed on board, telling the National Press Club the country was "in the midst of a national energy crisis - this is a long way from being...
...Right. The question is, what does this bill look like when it's finished - and whether Bush will sign it. With Bush in the White House, if this thing goes in looking like McCain-Feingold and gets so adjusted that it looks more like the Hagel bill every day, then it's very likely we'll have some kind of campaign finance reform. (Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is promoting a softer soft-money bill...
...really know. Bush would probably prefer that nothing come out of the Senate at all, and after that he'd much rather have watered-down reform like Hagel's. But there's also the option of signing some version of McCain-Feingold, and letting it be tested by the courts, on the theory that it would be ruled unconstitutional on free-speech grounds...