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Though similar bills have passed both the House and Senate before, they have not done so in the same legislative session. Now, with this newfound coalition in the House and with a Democratic majority in the Senate, Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) finally have their chance to push this legislation through Congress. As they do, they should resist as many amendments as possible to stay true to the McCain-Feingold bill—the Senate version—and thereby protect it from entering a conference committee, where it may never again...
...hearing, Winokur took a secondary role to Skilling, who faced the brunt of the inquiry, but two hours in, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) began questioning Winokur about the approval and oversight...
...Rep. Diane DeGette (D-Col.) also said she wondered how Enron’s board of director’s could have failed to oversee Enron’s financial deals...
...show up just long enough to take the Fifth. Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino is due today to talk about how much he didn't know. And so just as the cluster of Enron probes took a sharp turn over the weekend toward sending people "to the pokey," as Rep. Billy Tauzin put it Sunday, lawmakers are finding themselves either with no guests at all - the Senate Commerce committee simply canceled Monday's episode - or even worse: with guests that nobody particularly to watch...
...what they should and shouldn't do. And for all Pitt's genially droning delivery, and all the time he spent dodging grandstanders digging for pungent quotes on Bush's budget priorities, at least the general theme of the exchange was figuring out - and fixing - the real problem. As Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., put it: "What shocked me was how close Enron came to being completely legal...