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Only 41 years old, the New Hampshire Republican is the youngest member of the Senate, but that hasn't limited his reach. Sununu played a major role this year on the lobbying-reform legislation, and he got the Bush Administration to make some crucial changes in the Patriot Act before he voted to reauthorize it. The son of former White House chief of staff John H. Sununu, he has become a well-respected fiscal conservative, last fall calling for cuts in nearly every part of the budget to offset spending for Hurricane Katrina...
...week, residents of 24 counties passed resolutions calling for U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq, joining dozens of towns in Vermont that have passed similar measures. Seven states--Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana and Vermont--and nearly 400 counties have voted either to criticize or ignore the Patriot Act. Come November, voters in localities across the U.S. will be asked to say yea or nay to affirmative action, abortion and embryonic-stem-cell research. "All of these are very personal issues. Who better to decide them than citizens themselves?" asks Archon Fung, a government professor at Harvard. "This...
...until April 15 will Harvard face a league opponent on the road again. The Crimson will battle Patriot League foe Holy Cross (9-7-1) in Worcester, Mass. on Wednesday...
...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...
...called “War on Terror,” a few of our civil liberties just became permanent casualities. Last week, just days before the USA Patriot Act was set to expire, President Bush signed legislation that effectively makes the stipulations of the act permanent. Narrowly ratified by the House by only two votes, the bill will allow the government to continue to use the terror-fighting tools that were first passed in the panicked aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Although we recognize the necessity of taking steps to fight terrorism, parts of the Patriot Act overstep reasonable bounds...