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...battle of amendments continued on Wednesday, Cheney stayed on the sidelines - and not because the White House was suddenly awash in converts. The Senate voted 53-47 in favor of an amendment by proposal by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to take $450 billion of tax-cut money and redirect $225 billion to federal education programs and another $225 billion to debt repayment...
...story on delays in getting a mammogram [MEDICINE, March 12] referred to Senator Tom Harkin "of Idaho." Harkin is from Iowa...
...Meanwhile, some liberal Democrats like Tom Harkin and Patty Murray, who's in charge of fund-raising for Senate Democrats, may vote the same way. They fear that if the Supreme Court can pick and choose which parts of the bill are constitutional, they'll be left with a system that will allow the Republicans to kill them with unlimited spending by issue-advocacy groups (the "loophole" that the Wellstone amendment is meant to plug), but doesn't leave them the soft money to catch up. For them, that's the worst of all possible worlds...
...depends on your personal situation. Obviously John Breaux thought he could explain his 180-degree turn on this issue (he was the first Democrat to publicly bolt a few weeks ago) to the folks back home. For people like Murray and Harkin, who both face tough reelection fights, it's a little more difficult - with Harkin in particular, if he bolts, Republicans are swearing that they'll make his life miserable...
Some answers may be forthcoming in the next few weeks. The American Cancer Society and the Society of Breast Imaging are busy analyzing data from a recently completed survey of radiologists and their waiting times. Harkin also hopes to hold hearings on the issue...