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One symptom of lobbying run amuck is the proliferation of earmarks--spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. "Beating up on lobbyists is easy to do, but we have to put our own house in order, and at the top of that list is earmark reform...
As if all that were not enough, now that the once powerful Governor is fighting for his political life, there's little incentive for Democrats to go along with his agenda?and help him improve his fortunes in the process. Indeed, Democrats aren't completely in synch with his new...
Finally, presidential defenders have argued that efficiency demands bypassing the courts. There again, the clear language of the law does them in. Even pre--Patriot Act law provided a very robust mechanism through which a President, facing what he believes is such an emergency that the short time needed to...
The multimillion-dollar salaries of Harvard’s top money managers declined in their last full year of work before they left to form their own fund. Former bond managers David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels were paid $18 million and $16.9 million, respectively, for their work at Harvard...
But the Administration maintains that advances in technology since FISA was passed make the court's procedures too slow to contend with the immense flood of electronic chatter that now passes in and out of the U.S. and which the agency has much improved means of capturing and analyzing. Justice...