Word: nevadas
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...addition, Chertoff has practice tuning out political pressure. Early in his career, he left a lucrative job at a white-shoe law firm to put away Mob bosses as a first assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. In 2006 the DHS Secretary weathered a call for his resignation from Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, then the Senate minority leader, because Las Vegas had been denied security dollars...
This latest attempt to convert the bill's opponents comes as Democrats and Republicans both spent the past week volleying blame back and forth. After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Democrat from Nevada, pulled the bill from debate last Thursday night (following a failed attempt to end debate), Republicans pointed to that action as evidence of the Democrats' lack of genuine interest in the legislation. Democrats, on the other hand, complained the G.O.P had slowed down the bill's progress with a litany of amendments. Thursday night, however, the group of Senators that have shepherded this bill agreed...
...legalizing the nation's approximately 12 million illegal immigrants - is a key component of Bush's domestic agenda for his final year and a half in office. It was pulled from the floor Thursday after almost two weeks of debate when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, frustrated by the number of amendments brought forth by critics, called to end debate. The vote failed. "There's lots of support for this bill on the outside, " Reid said before departing. "The problem was on the inside of this Senate chamber...
...much his haircuts cost because he shares his wealth, remembers his beginnings and wants to help others achieve the American Dream. He was not being original, however, in referring to environmental challenges and saying "It's time we asked Americans to be patriotic about something other than war." Former Nevada Senator Alan Bible said, "We labor long and earnestly for peace because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we labored with equal passion to defend our environment." Mary Wear, Arlington, Texas...
...falls a little in love with her loneliness. She leaves New York for Memphis, where she gets a couple of waitressing jobs and meets a cop (David Strathairn) who's sunk into alcoholism over the departure of his good-time wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz). Elizabeth then goes to Nevada, cocktailing in a casino. There she encounters Leslie (Natalie Portman), a canny gambler who's got a sassy line of patter and is almost, but not quite, as good at cards as she thinks...