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...chief strategists of Election 2000 were reunited, if not reconciled, at the ARCO Forum Friday as the campaign managers for President George W. Bush, Al Gore '69, Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), Bill Bradley and Ralph Nader shared their experience and wisdom from the campaign trail in a 90-minute panel...
...profits, the proposal would tax lawyers' fees at a rate substantially higher than the standard income tax whenever the fees are paid by a state or local government and the fee is above a "reasonable amount." The lawyer tax has been a popular idea in Republican circles for years--Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) made a similar proposal in 1998--and was part of Bush's larger tort-reform package. Unfortunately, rather than balance the playing field in any meaningful way, the lawyer tax represents a clear example of arbitrary, discriminatory and politically motivated taxation whereby the ruling party...
...worry about in the past eight years, when Clinton was the voice of the Democratic party and could drown out the Republicans when he had to. Now the voice of the Democratic party is fractured among Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, New Democrats like Sen. John Breaux and assorted senior committee members...
...moderate Republicans, Sen. James Jeffords and Sen. Lincoln Chafee, have announced they are leery of a tax cut as high as $1.6 trillion. Jeffords likely will be brought back into the GOP fold, say Republican and Democratic Senate sources, but Chafee is a problem for Bush. So is Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has been talking up the idea of a "trigger" to kick in a higher tax cut only if surplus projections...
...exciting and surprising display of compromise, Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) has stepped over party lines to hammer out a compromise over a patients' bill of rights with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass). The McCain-Kennedy bill defines patients' rights for emergency care and treatment by specialists. But, most importantly, the bill also provides for a new patient's right to sue health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that do not provide adequate care...