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...challenge is different when his party is in charge. The newly empowered Democratic committee chairs are aching to flex their muscles. Labor chairman Edward Kennedy wants to write a "clean" bill raising the minimum wage, but Reid doubts it could pass without including tax breaks for business that Republicans are demanding. Even Reid's freshmen are uppity. When he called Virginia's Senator Jim Webb to inform him of his committee assignments--the standard backwater spots that junior members are usually consigned to--Webb demanded "A" assignments on both Armed Services and Foreign Relations. Since Webb's surprise victory gave...
...school’s 12 undergraduate residential Houses fall, at least partially, within that 1,000-foot radius—a designation that would tack on a mandatory minimum of two years to a convict’s sentence...
...intellectual godfathers of the Bush plan - scholar Fred Kagan at the American Enterprise Institute, and retired four-star Army general Jack Keane - will admit that the 20,000 number is less than they called for. When asked by TIME last week how many troops would be the absolute minimum to accomplish the counterinsurgency goals, Kagan replied that it was the number cited in their proposal - which was at least...
...really stings that one of their own, who has been elected and re-elected to the state's highest office, sides with the opposition on so many issues. Last year, while powerless G.O.P. legislators quietly seethed, Schwarzenegger cut deals with Democratic leaders to push through laws raising the state minimum wage, providing low-cost prescription drugs to uninsured indigents and putting strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions. It showed voters that the Republican Governor could play well with Democrats. And after a stumbling 2005 in which he alienated voters on all sides of the aisle with his misguided government reform...
...first hundred hours of her speakership, thanks to the majority-friendly rules of the institution, things will be decidedly slower on the other side of the building. Pelosi's Senate counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid, is facing challenges on all three of his first initiatives: lobbying reform, minimum wage and prescription drug reform...