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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Smart Grid is expected to be more efficient in delivering electricity and has a smaller environmental impact than conventional methods. We hope such projects continue in tandem with the new nuclear initiative. Until the Smart Grid and other plans come to fruition, maybe nuclear will grow to no longer have such a grim connotation...
...what they’re undertaking on campus,” Thoreson says. “The statement represents concerns and debates that have been happening for years. It’s representative of what people need the QSA to be by reflecting the short-term priorities and longer term evolution...
...Ultimately, this is really just setting the stage for longer term discussion and deliberation on the strategy for expanding our scope, choosing what’s important to us, and deciding what we’re going to do next...
...that changed when Bill Clinton took office. With the GOP no longer controlling the White House, a new breed of aggressive Republicans - men like Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and Trent Lott - hit on a strategy for discrediting Clinton: discredit government. Rhetorically, they derided Washington as ineffective and conflict-ridden, and through their actions they guaranteed it. Their greatest weapon was the filibuster, which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get legislation through the Senate. Historically, filibustering had been rare. From the birth of the Republic until the Civil War, the Senate witnessed about one filibuster per decade. As late...
...pollster Frank Luntz urged them to attack "lobbyist loopholes" - items that were put into the financial-reform bill, as in the health care bill, largely to attract enough Democratic votes to break the GOP filibuster. Needing 60 votes has made the debate over every bill on Obama's agenda longer and uglier, which is exactly how the Republicans want...