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...bench and not fabricate law from the bench." He noted that he had spent some time near New Hampshire while in school, but never mentioned the Ivy League institution (Harvard Medical School) that he attended. He also said he would support New Hampshire remaining the first primary in nation. (Iowa has a caucus...
...mean it.? It was a timely pep talk, coming after hollow-eyed Republicans had returned from town halls and covered dish dinners where angry constituents were opposed to Bush's initiative. The man in charge of shepherding the President's plan through the Senate, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, hinted last week it might make sense to scrap Bush's key proposal, for personal accounts. GOP allies once tasked with building up support for those accounts were declaring the Gambit dead or floating pared-down compromise options...
...things go well for Lan Samantha Chang, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, she could become the next director of the prestigous Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa...
Without the Supreme Court’s intervention, the onus is now upon state governments to reform the redistricting system. Some have already taken steps to overhaul their redistricting processes. Independent commissions have drawn the lines in Iowa since the 1990 census and in Arizona since the 2000 census. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has made redistricting one of his top legislative priorities, and the Florida Democratic Party has also made plans to introduce redistricting efforts. While these recent efforts are laudable, many of them are still overtly political. California Republicans, such as Schwarzenegger, support redistricting in large part because...
...gathering at the Madison #1 Middle School in Phoenix, Ariz., G.O.P. lawmaker John Shadegg faced a crowd of 280 people, 30% of whom by his estimate were there to voice angry opposition to tinkering with Social Security. "They rushed to the microphones," says Shadegg. After 17 town halls across Iowa last week, Charles Grassley, head of the Senate Finance Committee, said of the President's plan, "There's still a lot of people that are not focused on it or don't think there's a problem or don't even want to talk about it." A G.O.P. congressional aide...