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Republican leader Mitch McConnell had an amendment ready that would suspend the bill if it caused gasoline prices to rise by any amount. If that amendment ever went to a vote, it would force the bill's supporters to come out in favor of higher gas prices, and the Republican TV attack ads would produce themselves. No wonder moderate Dems wanted Reid to ditch the bill. At a meeting of Senate Democratic legislative directors, on Monday, June 2 - the day the Senate took up the bill - staffers were howling that Reid and Boxer were leading their bosses into the Valley...
...decent album into a good album, but the instrumental break halfway through “Hummingbird” really sets the mood for everything to come. In 20 unmissable seconds, Lalonde demonstrates excellent restraint and lets the effects pedal do the work for him as he solos over Mitch Derosier’s running bass line. The band’s real potential lies not its ability to work within its comfort zone, but in the ease with which it creates the unexpected. “Little Garcon,” the only purely acoustic track on the record, shows...
Congress watchers may feel a little unsettled when the Senate returns to work Tuesday. In recent days there has been a spate of oddly bipartisan comments, even a can-do tone among lawmakers. Just last Friday, the normally contentious Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell said, "If we can work together... we can quickly have a significant accomplishment to start the year." Across the Capitol on that same day, the usually combative Democratic Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said, "Democrats welcome President Bush's willingness to work together with Congress," and promised to work with Republicans in the coming weeks...
...think we came out fighting, even though they did have three ranked guys in the lightweights.” Sophomore J.P. O’Connor, ranked third in the nation at 149 lbs., put a stop to Harvard’s losing streak when he defeated Mitch Smith of Hofstra in a close 4-2 decision. Senior Bobby Latessa followed O’Connor with a high-scoring match at 157 lb. but fell short, 12-7. Senior Matt Button was shut out in his bout at 165 lbs., and sophomore Frankie Colletta lost in an 8-3 decision...
...vulnerable Senators running in purple states in 2008: New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon; some of them are trailing in polls. Senator Ted Stevens' corruption woes in Alaska may force Republicans to defend that once lock-safe seat. And Democrats have even vowed to go after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, whose protg just lost the Kentucky Governor's mansion to a Democratic insurgent. But if resignations are weakening the party, the party's weakness is also encouraging more resignations: it's just less fun when your team isn't winning, so more GOP-ers are opting...