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...reason may be that some of the GOP?s savviest inside players angled hard to stave off the suspension. Conservatives like Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, sent out news releases stating that his group ?Condemns the Attacks on MCI.? Norquist, the leader of a group of rightward thinking activists who meet regularly (sometimes with White House staffers), wrote to at least one senator who was bearing down on MCI and contacted the General Services Administration, the agency that administers federal phone contracts, to plug for the company. Norquist, who blames labor unions and other telecom industry competitors...
...Kentucky Democrat—whose 24-year Congressional tenure included stances against both President Nixon’s Vietnam policy and abortion, denunciation of special-interest campaign financing and sponsorship of the Immigration Reform Act of 1986—spent three months last year as Visiting Fellow at KSG, where he led a discussion group on immigration...
Four Harvard students traveled to the Capitol Tuesday to meet with senators about Social Security reform, highlighted by the testimony of Brad M. Smith ’04 in front of the Senate Special Committee on Aging...
...faith in the President's honesty, it could also do something equally damaging: resurrect the public's pre-9/11 doubts about his competence. Not so long ago, voters seemed to believe that Bush's success in war meant he could lick any problem, from the economy to healthcare reform. But here's the flip side: qualms about his management of postwar Iraq could turn into doubts about all his policies. By nearly 2 to 1, Americans still say the issues closest to home will matter most when they cast their vote for President next year. And according...
...Come over here and make me. I dare you. You little fruitcake." REPRESENTATIVE PETE STARK, California Democrat, at a Ways and Means Committee meeting that erupted in a dispute over pension reform. Capitol police were called to restore order...