Word: repeals
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...Democrats will be out to create another choice, not between pork and missile defense (in the budgetary sense, nobody?s for the other white meat) but between items on Bush?s list - say, missile defense and the tax cut - that, since they can no longer repeal with a veto in the White House, they can at least complain shrilly about. And of course both sides will be accusing the other?s lock-box-raiders of "neglecting our nation?s seniors." Which neither side is actually doing - Social Security payouts are safe for at least a decade...
...skirmishes with the U.S. and its anti-whaling allies over the future of the earth's largest mammal. Amid allegations that Japan had bought the votes of the five island states, as well as those of St. Kitts and Nevis and other small, poor nations in its drive to repeal the IWC's 1986 ban on commercial whaling, delegates from 37 voting countries clashed bitterly over new sanctuaries, the culling of minke whales, the return of prodigal Iceland to the fold and numerous fine points of order and procedure. With its ally Norway playing the "good cop," Japan...
...days ago, Bill Clinton opened up shop in Harlem, and gave a speech so buoyant and well-received it seemed like the first salvo in a grass-roots campaign to repeal the 22nd Amendment. When the once-and-perhaps-future President finished speaking, he locked arms with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang along to the tune that might have been his theme song for a turbulent quarter-century in politics: "Stand By Me." The song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour...
...Zionism is racism" is different. It's something of a red herring, coming as it does a decade after the repeal of the U.N. resolution condemning the Jewish nationalist ideology that drove the creation of modern Israel. The issue has been revived for the racism conference in order to build diplomatic support for the plight of the Palestinians, and even a number of human rights groups fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under occupation have warned that it's an inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel...
...points out that even a reduced, $160 billion surplus amounts to the second largest ever. Republicans predict that Bush's tax rebate will soon give the sluggish economy a lift, generating more growth and higher tax receipts. And they claim that the real goal of the Democrats is to repeal Bush's tax cut. As Senator Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, put it, "If you really want to drive this country into the economic ditch, raise taxes during a slowdown...