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EVAN WOLFSON The same-sex-marriage advocate is executive director of Freedom to Marry Senator Russ Feingold should be on the list for putting forward values and policies before the American people and offering Democrats a chance to return to the clarity and authenticity needed to regain power. From his opposition to the war in Iraq to his support for ending the exclusion of committed same-sex couples from marriage, he is emerging as the one to watch as the political pendulum swings...
...governors, congressional leaders and Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, the party doesn't have one strong defining leader. And while Democrats may agree broadly, there are still major differences on tactics, such as the proposal to censure Bush over his warrantless spying program offered by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. That idea won little support among his fellow Democrats. "I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence," says Paul Begala, the veteran Democratic strategist. The anti-war left is so mad at Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, for instance, that they're running a primary...
...Three months after the New York Times broke the story outlining the program, it now appears that Democrats aren't unhappy about what Bush did; they just don't like the way he did it. Even Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold, who proposed to censure the President for his handling of the matter - and generated some unhappiness in his own party for doing so - has so far stopped short of saying the program should be eliminated...
...Senator Russ Feingold has always been an unpredictable politician. One of the strongest supporters of campaign finance reform, the Wisconsin Democrat lived up to his principles in 1998, blasting ads that national Democrats were running for him in his state that were paid for by "soft money," the sort of campaign donation that Feingold worked successfully to outlaw a few years later. In 2001, he angered Democrats by supporting John Ashcroft?s nomination for attorney general - and then shocked everyone when he was the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks...
...Senior officials at the DHS agreed, and that fall they persuaded House-Senate conferees to strip Markey's amendment from the appropriations bill. "The Bush Administration bends over backwards for industry while turning its back on needed homeland-security safeguards," Markey complains. "It's commerce over common sense." But Russ Knocke, a DHS spokesman, argues that such public-private partnerships maximize security without "shutting down the systems and industries we depend upon...