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...would hope that this would pass as soon as possible,” she said. “And all indications are that the legislature is supportive of the concept...
...legislation for the most part is much less harsh than that proposed two years ago by Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, which would have imposed a 27.5% tariff if China failed to revalue. But it is also much more likely to pass...
Since winning control of Congressmonths ago, Democrats have been under immense pressure to pass legislation tightening the ethics rules that govern Washington. Corruption was the No. 1 issue on voters' minds, according to exit polls, but even as Democrats worked to pass a bill, public esteem for Congress sank to the lowest level ever--just 14% of people approve of the body...
...simply more of the same? A year after deriding a proposed Republican lobbying reform bill as toothless and cosmetic, the bill Democrats are poised to finally pass, with Republican support, is similar to the measure they opposed last year...
...disclosure rules have been complied with. It's a technical point, admits DeMint, but a key one. "One of the reasons Americans have such a low opinion of Congress is that we pretend to do things that we don't actually do, and here we are just pretending to pass real reform," he said. "The [majority] leader can just say that no new earmarks have been added and we'll find out later that they have. There's no teeth to this thing...