Word: russ
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...Waller: Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who has announced his support for the Ashcroft nomination, said yesterday that he and other moderates were willing to give Bush this one free pass - but if it's reciprocated by sending hard-right nominees for Senate confirmation to judicial posts, some of the moderate Democrats will fight back. If I had to guess, I'd say they might try to pick off a really conservative assistant AG candidate...
...think anyone was surprised that Daschle came out against Ashcroft - opposing this nomination has become a Democratic issue. It won't sink the nomination by any means, because there are enough Democrats who will vote for him. On the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Democrats are still hedging their bets: Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, both of Wisconsin. Feingold will probably vote for the Ashcroft nomination, and that could mean Kohl, who's really held off making any judgment on Ashcroft, will follow his lead...
...Less than 24 hours into his former rival's administration, the Arizona senator appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," where he informed host Tim Russert that he is urging the new president to consider the campaign finance reform bill he co-sponsored with Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin. The invitations will be polite at first, of course. But McCain made it clear that if no move was made by Easter, he and Feingold will try to attach the bill to Bush's policy agenda any way they...
...Senate colleagues at home. The teetotaling son of a famed Pentecostal minister, Ashcroft, a onetime Missouri Governor so strict that he refused to dance at his own inaugural ball, is the kind of hard-line conservative who makes liberal toes curl. Yet as he reached Senate Democrats like Russ Feingold and his old Yale classmate Joe Lieberman, he was able to elicit warm responses, or at least pledges of neutrality. Feingold called him a "respected public servant with a fine legal mind." New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli called him "a very good choice," praised his "sound judgment and high integrity...
...work well with Hillary, whom she knows, partly from staying twice in the Lincoln Bedroom ("And it didn't cost us a cent"). Carnahan celebrated with the family left to her: daughter Robin, 39, and son Tom, 31, who may move to Washington to be near her. Son Russ, 42, was just then being sworn in to the Missouri house of representatives. All day, people cried as they came up to her. She held steady. Only when taking the oath did she fill up with tears, feeling her husband's presence "flood my soul. I had to push it aside...