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...wonder why they’re not being ordered to go home, but in a time of crisis like this, people tend to bond—in fact, a lot of people have told me they don’t want to go home,” said former Sen. David Pryor, Institute of Politics director, and one of the lead coordinator’s of yesterday’s events at the Kennedy School...
...Republican primary, State Sen. JoAnn Sprague defeated her only competitor, banker William McKinney, 62 to 38 percent. The seven-candidate Democratic primary received far more media attention during the campaign, however, both for the fireworks among Lynch (who received 40 percent of the vote), Jacques (28 percent), State Sen. Brian Joyce (16 percent) and State Sen. Marc Pacheco (14 percent), and because its winner is expected to triumph in the heavily Democratic district’s November general election. The winner of that contest will take over the seat formerly held by beloved Congressman J. Joseph Moakley, Jr., who died...
...extra next year for a national missile defense. And it may be a good idea to dip into the fund to help stimulate the economy. But so far, the only politician to stick his head above the parapet and say times have changed and so should our minds is Sen. Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "What's wrong with using it for education," Domenici said last week. "I have now talked with 15 economists. None of them believe that is good economic policy for America to say we cannot touch those [funds] in a time...
...Gramm may have decided to retire not just because he's done everything he wanted to do in Washington, but also because he won't be able to do much more. With Sen. Jim Jeffords' defection last spring, Democrats now have a one-seat majority in the Senate. Republican leaders adamantly deny it, but GOP senators I talk to tell me that the feeling is running strong in their ranks that Democrats will control that chamber for a while. The place won't be fun for a lot of Republicans who liked being in control...
...chance of their party retaking the chamber in 2002 looking bleaker. Senators who are good friends with Gramm say he was becoming increasingly bored and frustrated with being in the minority. Gramm, who had chaired the Senate Banking Committee, has had frosty relations with its new Democratic chairman, Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Gramm has been mentioned as a successor to the departing president at Texas A&M University, where the senator once taught economics, or as a Bush pick for the Federal Reserve chairman. Gramm won't say what his future plans...