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...reconciliation, the end-of-the-year budget bill that needs only a simple majority of 50 votes to pass the Senate, thus avoiding a potential GOP filibuster. Republicans have repeatedly warned Democrats against trying to pass health care in that fashion, saying it goes against the spirit of the normal legislative process for such a sweeping bill. In return, many Democrats have argued that President Bush pushed through several large initiatives by this same process, such as his tax cuts and deficit-reduction legislation. But Rockefeller recently said he worried that trying to use budget reconciliation to pass health-care...
...TIME: You have long argued that Japan needed to be a "normal" country, a country in which politicians took responsibility. Do you think this is as relevant today...
...Ozawa is not, and has never been, just a political insider. Since the early 1990s he has articulated a vision of Japan as a place that had to be a "normal country," one that had its own interests, in which national goals were set by its elected politicians, and in which the bureaucracy's job was to implement a political program rather than shape policy themselves. During his interview with TIME, held in the DPJ's modest headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district, Ozawa was asked if his analysis of the need for Japan to be a "normal country...
...Prime Minister, he will have to do just that. In the past, there have been times when Ozawa's determination for Japan to be a normal country with a sense of its own interests seemed likely to make him an awkward partner for the U.S. For example, Ozawa recently suggested that under a DPJ-led government the presence of the Seventh Fleet, based at Yokosuka, would be "enough" U.S. military for East Asia - a remark that implied that all other U.S. bases in Japan should be closed. While he says that the relationship with the U.S. is "the most important...
...Prime Minister al-Maliki was not as blasé, and many Iraqis sympathetic to al-Zaidi, including his family, laid Thursday's conviction squarely at the Prime Minister's feet. "This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner," the correspondent's brother Odai told reporters outside the courtroom. "This decision has been taken by the Prime Minister's office...