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...answered. Who knew what the final tab could be - maybe as high as $500 billion in the end. But the Congressional and Senate leaders in this room knew that money gets wasted when it's appropriated in the heat of the moment. "I'm an American first," Rep. David Obey, the Appropriations Committee's senior Democrat, told the others. "I want to turn these attackers into fairy dust. But we need to look at the fine print of what we're doing here...
...constitutional powers and make it a blank check," one participant told me. They ordered their staffs to move quickly on the administration's emergency funding request, but to move carefully on drafting the legislation. Congress didn't have to go overboard and approve the full load now. Remember, Obey told the group: After the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress passed 12 supplemental appropriations bills to fund its recovery. By the end of last week, Congress appropriated $40 billion, kicking in $20 billion extra for New York...
...population is down to around 50,000 from 250,000 at independence. Those who hold dual British and Zimbabwean citizenship have been given until January 6 to choose one or the other. If they remain British, Mugabe has said, they will then become "foreign whites who will have to obey Zimbabwe's laws." And they fear that those laws could bar them from owning land, property or businesses...
...tech and hollow-point bullets, but for Left Behind's apocalyptic backdrop, it substitutes more modest effects like the raising of the dead. This is a wonder that Bright is convinced that God ("He hasn't changed"), continues to bestow among communities of "people who trust and obey him." But not, Bright hopes, to him: since it would interrupt his final reunion with the Lord. He has no idea how much time he has left. He appears not to be concerned. "If I die I'm going to heaven. If I don't die, I go on serving the Lord...
Remarkably, they do. Babies as young as three months old, an age at which their visual brains have just been wired up, can be surprised by magical events. They must expect the world to be nonmagical. They expect it to be a place where objects obey laws...