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...last major accomplishments of Randy "Duke" Cunningham before the Republican Congressman was jailed for taking $2.4 million in bribes was to sponsor an amendment to the 217-year-old Constitution of the United States. The amendment, which would have given Congress the power to outlaw "desecration" of the flag, cleared the required two-thirds majority in the House last year and Tuesday evening the Senate put the amendment to a vote. Both sides in the battle said during the run up to the vote that supporters were one vote short of the 67 required for Congressional passage - and despite...
...politician. One of the strongest supporters of campaign finance reform, the Wisconsin Democrat lived up to his principles in 1998, blasting ads that national Democrats were running for him in his state that were paid for by "soft money," the sort of campaign donation that Feingold worked successfully to outlaw a few years later. In 2001, he angered Democrats by supporting John Ashcroft?s nomination for attorney general - and then shocked everyone when he was the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks...
...spectacle of lawmakers niggling over lunch guidelines and those surprisingly entertaining "educational trips" illustrates how much easier it is to spout rhetoric about honesty in public life than it is to live an actual public life in a city where conflicts of interest are just what make people interesting. Outlaw lobbying by spouses, and you'll greatly restrict the options for those who want to marry inside the Beltway but don't ever want to be "the wife." Marriage is a contract, but in Washington no less than anywhere else, it can't survive under conditions of full disclosure...
...made. (He revealed the ruse to Clark soon after.) "It's like someone taking your wallet or knowing who paid you money," Clark says. "It's no great discovery, but it just doesn't feel right." Since then, Clark has become a vocal supporter of the movement to outlaw the sale of cell-phone records to third parties...
Japan's otaku?the moniker given to its legions of nerdy pop-culture obsessives?are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore: the government is trying to outlaw some of their favorite vintage video games. On April 1, Japan's Product Safety of Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (PSE), designed to prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop...