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Gore concludes that "[t]he regularization and intensification of the President's personal communication with these two constituencies--the public at home and the audience abroad--promise to complicate his relations with" Congress and his own staff. "Consequently," Gore writes, "a key factor in this trend is the increasing importance of the President's personality...
...Congress, beginning the political career that landed him in the vice presidency...
...full extent of His Majesty's spoof becomes apparent only after examining the rationale of American antitrust law. The cornerstone of that framework, the Sherman Antitrust Act, does not prohibit monopoly per se and Sherman took great pains to point that out before Congress when debating the issue. Monopolies attained through continued innovation are totally legitimate. The law targets only those extended through predatory pricing, superfluous tie-ins and a handful of other shady practices that rely not on market merit but market power. Such monopolies invariably hurt the consumer, either by raising prices above the market level or destroying...
...Wednesday's White House concession, there is a hint of last-minute sellers' remorse hovering in the Washington air. And while it's been a relatively bile-free bargaining process, the annual money talks were hardly a love-fest: Since October 1, the official beginning of fiscal year 2000, Congress has approved six short-term spending bills - quick fixes to keep the government up and running without a budget. Today, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper, Republicans are just happy to escape relatively unscathed, with or without a last-minute victory. "They're eager to go back...
...greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere have increased dramatically and we know that temperatures are rising," says TIME environmental editor Charles Alexander. "With the thinning of the ice layer, there are so many signs of global warming that it only makes sense to take some action." One step for Congress: ratifying the emissions-control standards of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty. The measure has been stalled there ever since President Clinton signed it two years ago; the news from up north could be one more bit of ammo for proponents. And with scientists expecting the temperature to grow another 3.5 degrees over...