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This summer an unprecedented coalition, running the gamut of the advocacy world from rural development to health to business to the environment, emerged to help Kind and Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona try to shake up the system. Editorials thundered for reform, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco--the city of organic kale and "meat is murder"--vowed to deliver it. The moment seemed ripe for Democrats to challenge the status quo. Agribusiness was steering two-thirds of its campaign donations to Republicans, and just 19 of the 435 congressional districts were vacuuming up half of all subsidies...
...from the Sierra Club in 1999 and an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, in 2006.Leach’s positions have occasionally brought him into conflict with his own party leadership. In 1996, he voted against the GOP’s nominee for speaker of the House, citing ethics concerns about then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).Despite those tensions, Leach helped to push through one of the biggest banking reforms in U.S. history, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999. The legislation allowed banks to affiliate freely with securities and insurance firms...
...flamboyant, yells and screams when things don't suit him, but then so do I,"said Bob Livingston, a former Republican Speaker of the House who chaired the committee from 1995-1998. When the G.O.P. took control of Congress in 1994, Obey - as outgoing chairman - left Livingston a big bottle of Scotch in the desk drawer and a note that read "Best Wishes on an Outstanding Chairmanship." The gesture was indicative of how bipartisan the committee has been and remains to this...
...sayings. Why tell when I can show? Turns out the name the reporter heard was “Kairos.” Kairos Shen happens to be the director of planning at the BRA. Unfortunately, it took editors two more weeks to confirm that Shen was, in fact, the speaker who was quoted. Until late last month the article appeared on the Crimson Web site with an odd correction, noting that Montañez was not at the meeting and did not say the things attributed to him. “This correction will be updated as soon...
...veteran of the Solidarity trade union movement; he joined its student wing as a young history student, and as a result was forced to work as a manual laborer under martial law. Tusk is a familiar figure in the country's post-communist era, having served as deputy speaker of the Senate from 1997 to 2001 and as deputy speaker of the more powerful lower house, the Sejm, from...