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...Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, has criticized the war for a long time, the fact that he is willing to so publicly defy the Bush administration highlights the growing power of Iraq critics within Congress. In essence, these critics are finally calling the Bush administration on its implicit contention that Congress?? Oct. 2002 vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq also hindered Congress?? right to evaluate the administration’s handling of the war itself. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used the pro-authorization votes of individual senators and House representatives...
...budget deficit. All told, the House spending bill does absolutely nothing to reduce the deficit while inflicting great harm on the poor. Even within the bill, there are provisions for $35 billion in new spending, including giveaways to dairy farmers and doctors—a symptom of Congress??s dangerous addiction to pork-barrel spending. Instead of seeking to cut much needed social spending, House Republicans should look to excise their propensity for earmarks, which produced $24 billion in pork in the recent highway bill alone. Instead of building the “Bridge to Nowhere?...
...friend-of-the-court brief in September arguing that the school can bar military recruiters from campus without violating the Solomon Amendment. By requiring the Pentagon to sign a nondiscrimination pledge, the Law School held the military to the same standard as other recruiters and therefore adhered to Congress?? “equal access” requirement, according to the brief...
...Amendment may in fact legitimate federal aid to Harvard and other schools. “When funding of higher education is restricted by the Solomon Amendment to institutions allowing military recruiters on campus, this overall program—or at least parts of it—is permissible under Congress?? power to raise and support armies,” the brief contends...
It’s 1950 all over again on Capitol Hill, and this time, the “communists” have infiltrated an even more sacred American institution than Congress??baseball, our national pastime...