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Then the failed Christmas bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound airliner gave the GOP an opening. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani launched a campaign against the trials, saying they could lead to new terrorist attacks against the city, while Republicans on Capitol Hill prepared to kill the Holder plan by simply defunding the civilian proceedings - just as they had defunded any domestic alternative to Guantánamo Bay a year before. On Jan. 27, the dam broke: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed his previous position and said he opposed a trial in Manhattan because it could cost...
...finally free Congress to work definitively to address other important issues. While healthcare was a critical problem that deserved the highest attention, myriad others also merit scrutiny and action. Specifically, Congress should now focus its efforts on reforming financial regulations and energy policy. As for now, Democrats on Capitol Hill can relish their historic triumph in a battle that was begun over a century ago. This legislation is a tremendous achievement for the Democrats in Congress and signifies a victory of the highest caliber for Obama’s young presidency...
...Netanyahu's claims may have been a crowd-pleaser at AIPAC, and they went unchallenged on Capitol Hill. Still, as far as the U.S. government and the rest of the international community is concerned, Israeli construction in East Jerusalem is settlement activity. Whereas U.S. Presidents typically use words like unhelpful to describe it, on Wednesday the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was more forthright, denouncing the new housing units planned by Israel in East Jerusalem as "illegal." Israel's claims on the parts of the city it captured in 1967 are not internationally recognized, and Netanyahu...
...Powell may be subtly urging the Administration to adopt a more flexible position on Iran, but some powerful domestic interest groups are urging it to do just the opposite. AIPAC activists swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby legislators to push the Obama Administration to take an even tougher line on Tehran. So, as things stand, Secretary Clinton - or whomever the Administration taps to address next year's AIPAC policy conference - may not have much progress to report on the Iran front...
...mayor of Baltimore, Pelosi's approach is often compared to his old-school Italian style of patronage. After all, as a child, she was often tasked with maintaining her father's "favors" list. But, while there is a certain degree of ring-kissing that still goes on on Capitol Hill, the Speaker is actually more like her mother, says Tommy D'Alesandro, Pelosi's brother and another former mayor of Baltimore. "You could cross my father, lie to him, oppose him," D'Alesandro says. "But our mother - you couldn't lie to her. You couldn't oppose her. God help...