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Shades of 1968 in Congress' Iraq debate
By James P. PinkertonThe debate over the possible war with Iraq is starting to resemble the debate over the actual war in Vietnam more than three decades ago. Back then, a Republican president led a war effort, flummoxing the Democrats in Congress, who stumbled back and forth between supporting the war and opposing it. Today, as the Senate's top Democrat discovered last week, little has changed.
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ipoole,
09/30/2002 03:01 AM EDT)
David Broder | More red tape than ethics in ethics laws
Academics are never more useful than when they are taking on conventional wisdom and tearing it apart. That is exactly what G. Calvin Mackenzie, a professor of government at Colby College in Maine, has done in a delightful new paperback titled "Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical?"
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ipoole,
09/30/2002 03:01 AM EDT)
Roll Call Report
Here's how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes last week.HOUSEAbortion -- Voting 229 for and 189 against, the House on Wednesday passed a bill (HR 4691) banning the federal government, or any state or local government, from discriminating against health-care entities that refuse to perform abortions or provide insurance coverage for abortions.
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Wire Knight-Ridder,
09/30/2002 03:01 AM EDT)
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