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...part, this may not have been the shrewdest tactic for her to pursue either, since Simpson is suspected to kill those whom he can no longer possess. Of course, even if he did kill her, the bloody golf glove probably wouldn't fit him, and he'd be back out on the green in no time...
...member of Congress at the hearings urged the White House to seek congressional authorization before going ahead with the mission. Late in the week, Clinton indicated that he intends to do this; if he declines, however, few seem prepared to challenge him. The reason is that Congress's preferred tactic when confronted with knotty foreign policy problems is to make lots of noise but leave the hard calls to the President. "If he succeeds, they'll praise him; if he fails, they'll criticize him," said Representative Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat. A Republican congressional staff member was even more...
...definitely a lot to get upset about. The fact is that these shows are very, very popular. What Bennett is essentially trying to do is get people to vote them off the air by turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett, a former Secretary of Education who is co-director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry...
...western-led attack on environmental law proceeded quietly for much of this year, in part because, in a tactic that Democrats long ago raised to an art form, many of the changes were attached as riders to appropriations bills that fund federal activities, rather than stand-alone bills debated openly on the floor of Congress. And many more are tucked away in budget reconciliation bills that will whiz through Congress in the next several weeks. The riders include directives to the Environmental Protection Agency forbidding it to issue standards for measuring arsenic in tap water or to list new hazardous...
Young helped win his committee victory on the revised version of the act, which must still pass both full houses of Congress, by making sure that hearings showcased the hardships of property owners and "ordinary people.'' Another successful tactic was to make an end run around the subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, which is headed by Jim Saxton of New Jersey, a moderate Republican who favors the law. Instead Young formed an endangered-species task force and turned it over to Representative Richard Pombo, a fourth-generation rancher from California's Central Valley who is at war with...