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...here's Senator Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat, boasting about how he saved a small town from the Environmental Protection Agency when it moved against a local polluter. Federal bureaucracy, Kerrey warns, "is the most formidable enemy of all sometimes." (Is this the same Bob Kerrey who not long ago proposed a federal takeover of health insurance?) And here's Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, bragging that he was "leader in the fight that stopped the BTU tax." That's shorthand for the energy tax. Readers will recall that the leader in the effort to advance it was Bill...
Though every congressional contest has its own issues, the problems of the Democrat in Chief help explain why candidates lower down find themselves breathing hard to keep ahead in races that should be easy wins, including Kerrey's in Nebraska and Senator Ted Kennedy's in Massachusetts. Moreover, departing Democrats far outnumber Republicans among the unusually large number of lawmakers who are retiring this year. Given the advantages in campaign money that incumbents enjoy, each retirement creates an opportunity for the other side to romp through a more level playing field. With victory a real possibility in more districts, Republicans...
...describe a hypothetical. If (Bill Clinton) called Bob Dole right now on the telephone and said, 'O.K., I'll do your deal with five changes,' Phil Gramm would have diarrhea for a week. That's a political reality." -- SENATOR BOB KERREY (D., NEBRASKA), COMMENTING ON THE HEALTH-CARE BATTLE WITH AN EYE TOWARD THE RIVALRY BETWEEN DOLE AND GRAMM FOR THE G.O.P. PRESIDENTIAL...
...that even a hint of employer mandates could be too much. "To have any chance," Boren insists, "we must knock out the triggered mandate." The fate of Mitchell's plan may lie in the hands of a dozen or so Senators in both parties, including Boren, Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republicans John Chafee of Rhode Island and Missouri's John Danforth...
...higher than national averages. Puller's death sent waves of anguish coursing through veterans who have known similar despair and have also sought refuge in alcohol or drugs. But not everyone who shared Puller's experience of life after near death followed the same path. Senator Bob Kerrey, who lived in a ward with Puller during rehabilitation in Philadelphia, lost part of a leg in Vietnam but maintained his spirit. A grieving Kerrey said of his dead friend, "I don't think he died a casualty of something that he did in Vietnam, but I do think he died...