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...years, McCain has been up against a 60-vote hurdle - thanks to a promised filibuster from Mitch McConnell - to get his legislation into floor debate, and for each tilt at the windmill McCain enjoyed unanimous Democratic support. This year, with the Senate at 50-50 and McCain still enjoying some political pop from his equally quixotic presidential run, McConnell and Trent Lott have had to cut a deal with Bush's No. 1 saddle burr and give McCain-Feingold its due chance at becoming...
While the women's dominant victory over Yale was somewhat expected, the men entered last night's tilt with the Elis with a much taller order...
...working families in Chillicothe, Ohio--prime targets of the Democratic and Republican propaganda offensives--aren't tuning in. They're too busy coping with the economic slowdown to pay much attention to the politicians. And though people in Chillicothe would welcome a tax cut, even if its benefits tilt to the wealthy--and agree with George W. Bush that it could help nudge the economy back on track--they don't expect his plan to have much effect on their paychecks...
...Osprey aircraft to be falsified to make the plane appear more airworthy than it really is. That, however, may be comparatively good news for the project: An analysis of the anonymous letter making the charge - believed by senior Marine officers to be true -alongside recent reports on the tilt-rotor program indicates the Osprey program is in worse shape than most Pentagon officials had believed...
...inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld will almost certainly be backed by Dick Cheney, his protege and the new Vice President. Cheney shocked the Pentagon during his tenure there a decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor, the troubled $40 billion project that was saved only by its congressional backers. The Crusader's fate will show just how vigorously Rumsfeld is willing to shake up the Pentagon's cold war mind-set or whether he will yield to the pressure of the gun's influential supporters...