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...deals coming out of cozy bipartisan sessions like the meeting last week in Hastert's office. "House Republicans and House Democrats are both gagging on this," says G.O.P. strategist Ed Gillespie. Liberals in the House are livid Gephardt agreed to a bailout, promoted by Republican Senate minority leader Trent Lott among others, that helped airline shareholders without doing anything for laid-off workers. And conservatives went into revolt when Hastert nearly signed on to the idea of making 20,000 airport security workers federal employees. "Both Gephardt and Hastert are catching hell from their caucuses, and it's not going...
...setting one up will be fierce. To be effective, Ridge will need an organization under him along with a budget and committees in Congress to authorize the funds. Or he'll need to be able to control parts of other cabinet agencies' budgets. Daschle and Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott have been talking to each other about establishing a super committee on homeland defense. But setting up a committee with the power to authorize funding will be difficult. There are at least seven committees in the Senate, for example, that would now have jurisdiction over parts of homeland defense. Those...
...Lott thinks he can win his side to a super committee. "This is not a time for turf consciousness," he tells me. "This is a time for action." But Democratic and Republican leadership sources say that Daschle is having more problems in convincing his caucus to agree to a new super committee. The reason: Daschle's Democratic chairmen just got their chairs as a result of last spring's legislative coup. They're in no mood to give up jurisdiction this early...
...other political hot potato is who will serve on this new committee. Daschle and Lott are under growing pressure from their caucuses to appoint the chairmen and ranking minority members from the affected committees to be members of the new committee. That would lead to deadlock, Republican and Democratic leaders privately agree. "You'd end up having chairmen with their ego problems trying to deal with each other," says a GOP senator. Lott would rather pick other members for the panel who have some expertise in the subject...
Emergencies have always been a time when the niceties of law have been most vulnerable to the demands of national security or national hysteria. As Senate minority leader Trent Lott said last week, "When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently." World War II produced the internment camps for Japanese Americans, a development upheld in 1944 by the Supreme Court but later repudiated. After the bombing at the federal building in Oklahoma City, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was authorized to establish a new court to consider the deportation...