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BOSTON—Over 30 members of the Students Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) trekked through slush and snow yesterday to the Boston office of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to demand that Kerry include no less than $2.5 billion in funding to fight global AIDS in upcoming AIDS legislation...
Last week, the Senate irresponsibly voted down an amendment to this year’s omnibus energy bill that would have increased automobile gas mileage standards for the first time since 1985. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), would have raised the corporate average fuel efficiency—the average fuel efficiency for all autos sold in America—up from the current levels of 27 miles per gallon (mpg) for cars and 20.7 mpg for “light trucks.” Unfortunately, the powerful automobile...
...legislation's sponsors, including Sen. McCain, hail the passage as a step toward cleaning up a system polluted by big money. But not everyone is quite so optimistic; some politicos doubt whether the new laws will do much to pare political contributions, theorizing that serious donors will simply find new avenues for their cash. And others fear the changes will only reinforce the power of incumbents by drying up challengers' primary source of funding: the Republican and Democratic National Committees. And, as with every law, there are ways around...
...Bush is still framing. And he's quickly discovering that the success of his doctrine, or any foreign policy initiative for that matter, will hinge on how he handles the Middle East. "The Middle East is wrapped around the axle of every vehicle we are driving," says Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "I can't think of any part of the world that doesn't have a Middle East dynamic...
...Other senior members of Congress, who've seen presidential doctrines come and go, agree. The Middle East complicates Bush's doctrine "a lot," says Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It complicates significantly the actions we take or contemplate taking, particularly with regard to Iraq. The last thing we need is Saddam Hussein concluding that if we were to move on him he will direct the few Scud missiles he has with biological and chemical weapons at Israel and start a general Middle East...