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...next with LaRochelle Young, a policy adviser for Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback. Knowing the Senator's antiabortion views, I told the aide that kids who go to after-school programs don't get abortions. Her eyes lit up, and she asked me for statistics. "One hundred percent," I said. This didn't seem like the right answer. So I tried 78%. She looked up from the pad she was writing on. "Whatever sounds good," I said. She stopped writing...
...last stop: Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, who was receptive. I suggested she could get Brownback to join her on the Afterschool Caucuses--an official group of 81 Representatives and 36 Senators--by mumbling the word abortion and telling him there were free milk and cookies. I had known Brownback when he was running for President, and his campaign finances were pretty bare. "I'll find the best bakery in town," she said. "You gave me a good tip. That's good advocating...
...recent weeks, Michelle has also become a favorite target of conservatives, who attack her with an exuberance that suggests there are no taboos anymore. The latest strike came from the Tennessee Republican Party, which posted a YouTube ad ridiculing Michelle's now famous "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country" remark. That prompted Barack Obama to throw down a gauntlet of his own. "I would never think of going after somebody's spouse in a campaign," he told Robin Roberts of Good Morning America. "She loves this country ... And especially for people...
...Crow and ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ are equally morally reprehensible,” Reitan said. “The manner [in which] we confront them should be the same.” The group hopes to encourage Republican Senator Susan M. Collins of Maine and Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 of Massachusetts—who has said in the past that he needs a Republican co-sponsor—into working together to repeal the policy, according to Brooks. By stopping...
...between the two seemingly natural allies is a piece of legislation the Senate is expected to vote on this week to update the 1944 G.I. Bill to provide expanded education assistance and opportunities to the armed forces. The bill, co-sponsored by two other Vietnam veterans in the Senate, Republican Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia, would effectively provide full tuition and housing costs at a four-year public university for veterans who have served at least three years of active duty. Given his family's and his own long and distinguished service career, the bill...