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...Congress found a solution just in time for the Thanksgiving recess. The traditional references to the sturdy pilgrim forefathers were replaced with crowd-pleasing boasts of having made the skies safer. But now there's real worry among the 535 men and women who have come back to the capitol that Congress might still be pulling hair and calling names when the Christmas break bell goes...
...Afghan women who fled the Taliban are, in fact, the best advocates for a resurgence of women's rights in their nation, and that is why my colleagues and I have invited some of them to speak at a November 29th forum on Capitol Hill...
...Justice Department is considering other ways to get around due-process requirements. Capitol Hill sources tell TIME that the department's Office of Legal Counsel is looking into the possibility of setting up a military court to try terrorism suspects who wind up being charged, thus enabling prosecutors to avoid many of the niceties of the regular court system. In 1942 the Supreme Court allowed an American military commission to try eight Germans who had landed by submarine in Florida and New York with plans of sabotage. The men were found guilty and six of them were executed...
...article "Homeland Insecurity," Nancy Gibbs implied that the members of the House of Representatives may have evacuated in too much haste after anthrax was found in the mail area of the House side of the Capitol [TERRORISM, Oct. 29]. My fiance writes letters for a Congressman. The evacuation of the House side was an issue not of the bravery of members of Congress but of the safety of everyone. If the occupants of the World Trade Center had been warned of the attacks, would we have blamed them for evacuating the building beforehand? There is reason to believe that...
...Even after its unequivocal victory in the Senate, the bill had trouble across the Capitol, where House Republicans balked at a move they consider a boon to unions - and the Democratic Party. The Republican bill, sponsored by Rep. Don Young, took a big step away from total federal control. The GOP version maintains a commitment to sky marshals and to stricter employment screening of airport employees, but allows airports to either hire federal workers or hire security jobs out to private contractors. As the debate raged, Young was blunt in his opposition to the Senate version. "If people think there...