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...describe Alito as nerdy?more academic but also less polished than John Roberts, who addressed the committee without notes on his way to confirmation in September as Chief Justice. Yet Administration officials say they are certain that Alito will attract fewer votes?in the committee and later in the Senate???than did Roberts, whose golden résumé and limited paper trail thwarted Democrats' putative attack plans. Party leaders say they are determined not to give Bush's new nominee as easy a time. Alito would replace Sandra Day O'Connor, whose views have often decided key issues like affirmative action...
...first accomplishment was convincing the U.S. Senate???and Ohio's powerful Republican Mark Hanna?that the Panama route was superior to the Nicaraguan. His chief argument: Nicaragua was prey to volcanic eruptions. On the morning of a crucial Senate vote, Bunau-Varilla sent every Senator a Nicaraguan five-peso stamp picturing an erupting volcano that could have been Mount Momo-tombo, near the proposed canal line. The Senate switched to Panama on June 19, 1902. Soon afterward, Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay began to press Colombia to agree to a treaty. Their offer: $10 million in gold, plus...
...liberal than its predecessor. In the Senate, Democratic Victors Wendell H. Ford of Kentucky, Gary W. Hart of Colorado and Richard Stone of Florida are all to the left of the men they will replace. More important, the moderately conservative House will now become almost as liberal as the Senate???on both sides of the aisle. Only one member of the Wednesday Group, an ad hoc organization of moderate and liberal House Republicans, was defeated. In contrast, 30 of the 70 members of the conservative House Republican Steering Committee lost...
...fateful new determination on Capitol Hill, TIME Veteran Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil reported last week: "The blunders of the President have absolutely altered the Congress. What is seen as the arrogance and disregard for law on the President's part have stiffened the members of the House and Senate???Republican as well as Democratic?in a firm resolve simply not to tolerate what he has done...
...from defeat and eclipse?although the cases are entirely different, since Nixon has never been involved in a personal tragedy of such significance. Some years of hard work and impeccable behavior might well restore Kennedy's chances in public life. Some political observers believe that his resignation from the Senate???even if he is overwhelmingly supported by the Massachusetts public?would only help that process by demonstrating his sincere contrition. " 'Never' is a long time," said one moderate Republican Senator. "Kennedy has been hurt, but we're all so close to it this week that I just don't think...