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- Despite attempts at a heroic compromise with a bipartisan, mainstream group of colleagues, Senate majority leader George Mitchell's efforts to pass some kind of health-care reform bill this year teetered on the edge of death. Republican leaders warned that a last-minute rescue effort could jeopardize G.O.P. support...
Staff Writer: Emily Mitchell
Just when Democrats thought they had at least one sure election-year issue, Senate Republicans summoned their 1994 weapon of choice -- the filibuster threat -- to shoot down a campaign-finance-reform bill. "The system stinks," majority leader George Mitchell complained after a vote to close debate on the measure failed...
Tracking political trends has been Phillips' obsession since he was in his teens. "I was already a voting-patterns nut in high school," he recalls. His senior thesis at Colgate in 1961 documented the shift in Republican support away from the Northeast and into the Sunbelt (which term he coined...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared health care reform dead for this session of Congress, joining Republicans who rang the death knell last week -- and blaming them, too. The Maine Democrat on Friday made a last-ditch effort to round up a filibuster-proof 60 votes for a moderate health...