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...belly of the voting-reform movement is a man who personifies this paradoxical lack of credibility in the service of a credible cause. Brett Kimberlin was convicted in 1981 of a series of bombings in Indiana. By his own account, he dealt "many, many tons" of marijuana in the 1970s. Most famously, he is the man who from his prison cell alleged that as a law student Dan Quayle bought marijuana from him. Quayle repeatedly denied the charge, and it was never substantiated. In e-mails and Web postings from Kimberlin's two organizations, Justice Through Music and Velvet Revolution...
...left has an easier time at introducing reforms? It has always been easier for the left to reform, but that's because the right has never taken its ideas to their conclusion. The best example was in 1995 [when the government abandoned reforms after weeks of transport strikes]. Once you give a sign like that, you tell the French clearly: If I do a reform that you don't like, you go into the street, I promise I'll withdraw...
...would have believed it? Congress-or at least the House-may actually be serious about ethics reform after...
...much up in the air in the Senate, and is likely to provoke a fight on the floor when it considers its ethics package next week. And these changes, which also include disclosure of earmarks and might also feature tighter limits on junkets, are only the beginning. A lobbying reform bill is expected to be debated in the House next month, and it hopes to set up a new ethics enforcement process in March...
...House in the first hundred hours of her speakership, thanks to the majority-friendly rules of the institution, things will be decidedly slower on the other side of the building. Pelosi's Senate counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid, is facing challenges on all three of his first initiatives: lobbying reform, minimum wage and prescription drug reform...