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...case is so important that eBay has hired big-name lobbyists in Washington, such as the Ashcroft Group, a lobbying shop run by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Juleanna Glover Weiss, an ex--press secretary for Vice President Dick Cheney, is registered as an eBay lobbyist on "patent reform...
...semiconductors and software may be covered by hundreds of patents, each with distinct claims, yet it may take only one case of infringement for a judge to issue an injunction, compelling many companies to pay the trolls to go away. U.S. House Republican Lamar Smith, co-sponsor of a reform bill, wants to slow the litigation gravy train. "We need a judicial system that does not reward people who file shaky claims on patents," he says...
...wouldn't think the man who made his mark in Washington as the knight-errant of campaign-finance reform and whose name is rarely written without the word maverick attached would ever meet a cause he deemed hopeless. But that was pretty much where Arizona Senator John McCain was a couple of weeks ago in his quest to transform the nation's immigration laws and set on the path to becoming citizens the estimated 11 million people who are here illegally. When the proposition had been tested, as recently as December in the House of Representatives, the result...
...kind of comprehensive immigration reform being discussed by the Senate carries the potential of transforming the politics of the country by making citizensand therefore votersof millions of mostly Hispanic residents in relatively short order. Says McCain: "This legislation is a defining moment in the history of the United States of America...
...policy initiative of his 2004 re-election campaign. But in a private White House meeting with congressional leaders last year, Bush confessed that he had misjudged the politics of the issue and agreed to recalibrate, putting more emphasis on border security. The President has insisted, though, that he wants reform that includes both enhanced border enforcement and provisions for guest workers. His ideas, which focus on giving migrant laborers temporary visas, have never gone as far as the McCain-Kennedy proposal of offering citizenship to illegal immigrants and some future guest workers. Last week, as Bush met in Mexico with...