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...anticipation of these initiatives. House Republicans are gaming leadership changes, and among top Democrats, there's an urgency to raise their dismal approval ratings by delivering for Obama. "Given the [Democratic] majorities in both bodies, it'll be incumbent on everyone here to get things done," says Jim Manley, the spokesman for Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Barack Obama's campaign...
...Shea’s life, I am reminded of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who argued that God deserves special praise for “all things counter, original, spare, strange.” Perhaps this explains why, when the wrecking balls begin to gouge holes in Shea’s alienating concrete exterior this fall, I will feel a peculiar yet visceral pang of sadness...
...accept the Senate measure. Such a move would need to be attached to an innocuous tax bill already pending before the Senate in order to circumvent a constitutional mandate that all tax writing must originate in the House. "We always keep tax bills available for such situations," said Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Senate majority leader Harry Reid. "But I don't see that happening as of right...
...brain. Still, Kennedy is an unparalleled force in the Senate, an engine for legislation that makes him - if judged by legislative productivity alone - the most important senator this half-century. Kennedy "has never felt that compromise is a dirty word and smart Republicans have recognized that," said Jim Manley, Reid's communications director...
...Senate this week will take up a new housing bill that was previously blocked by Republicans. Treasury's move, say the Democrats, was driven by the new momentum for regulation instigated by Frank and other Democrats. "Any fair reading of the situation would have to conclude that," says Jim Manley, spokesman for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...