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...York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan is retiring after 24 years in the United States Senate, and Nebraska's Bob Kerrey is retiring after 12. Good friends and legislative allies, the two recently lunched with TIME's Ann Blackman in the Senate Dining Room and talked about what they're leaving behind...
...KERREY: Not long before I got here, C-Span came to the floor of the Senate. A confirmation that would normally take 30 minutes suddenly ook seven or eight hours because everyone wanted...
...KERREY: Eventually we will be forced to. The size of the problem gets larger, but so long as we are able to postpone it, there is no political penalty for delay. And yet the do-nothing plan has real consequences. If you support the do-nothing plan, you support a 25 to 33 percent cut in benefits. Beneficiaries in the future will pay a price, but politicians...
...that support is inspired less by Gore himself than by the fact that they're Democrats, and with 2002 on the line they'll do whatever the base says, and the base says Gore won. (Bob Kerrey's strident appearances in Florida for Gore's cause are widely credited to his own presidential ambitions in 2004 should Gore come up short.) And because the Republicans, from the orchestrated Miami-Dade "mob" to Gephardt nemesis Tom DeLay, have really been pissing them...
...Kerrey Retiring Democratic Senator from Nebraska...