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Susan Collins had to change lunch tables. When the Maine Republican entered the Senate in 1997, she joined a group of five Republican moderates who lunched together every Wednesday. But one of them died in 1999, and in 2001 Vermont's Jim Jeffords fell out with the G.O.P. and became...
As things look now, the bill has a good shot. By the end of last week, 200 members of the House--nearly half--had signed on as co-sponsors to the legislation authored by Delaware Republican Mike Castle and Colorado Democrat Diana DeGette. And the number of supporters is expected...
What brought the expansion of embryonic-stem-cell research to a congressional vote was not a public groundswell, however, but an uncharacteristically deft inside move by a group of Republican moderates who call themselves the House Tuesday Group. For months, they had been looking for an opportunity to get around...
ABRAMOFF Politicians run for office, and they need resources to do so. I've dedicated my political life to helping those I support legally obtain the resources they need to get re-elected. Every night scores of fund-raising events take place, and liberals, conservatives and moderates all participate. And...
ON THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF AN UNFAIR ELECTION. If the elections are not free and fair, it could explode into violence and widespread radicalization of the people. You may have a civil war comparable to what happened in Nicaragua, where the moderates became irrelevant, participation in the electoral process became...