Word: waxman
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...challenging the constitutionality of the new “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.” It has pitted an unlikely alliance of the American Civil Liberties Union and former Lewinskygate prosecutor Kenneth Starr against McCain and former President Clinton’s Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman. The court should stand with those who want to stop vote buying and influence mongering, not the motley alliance that favors the present situation: entrenched political interests like unions, behemoth corporations like Enron and lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association that call the shots on Capitol Hill...
...film Woody plays Val Waxman, a once hot director, now out of fashion, who gets the chance to direct a big-budget movie thanks to the urging of his ex-wife, a studio executive (Tea Leoni in an appealing, intelligent performance). Just before shooting starts, Val gets a case of psychosomatic blindness and must keep his infirmity from the cast and crew. This could be funny if Allen had either the gags to sustain it or the gift of physical comedy to embody it. He has neither, and the film plays like an endless prank call to an industry that...
...since Bush v. Gore have so many constitutional lawyers jumped on a case. First Amendment liberal Floyd Abrams has joined Starr. McCain and Feingold are assembling their own impressive team to help U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson defend the law. Sources say former Clinton Solicitor General Seth Waxman will lead lawyers from Common Cause, Democracy 21 and other reform groups...
Well, if Henry Waxman and the GAO really want to know what came out of Dick Cheney and Ken Lay's energy-policy deliberations last spring, here it comes. The Bush energy bill, which passed smoothly through the House of Representatives back when Enron was nothing to be ashamed of, is now ready for its close-up before Tom Daschle's altogether more hostile Senate...
...That may be why Dick Cheney has left his secure location and hit the road, disclosing to friendly (and often paying) gatherings everything the GAO would ever want about how much he hates Saddam Hussein. Cheney even dissed Waxman on Leno - and got a big hand - but the vice president wasn't taking any Enron questions from non-talk-show-hosts, thank you very much...