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...Senate passed theGOP's landmark planto balance the budget by 2002 (by a vote of 57-42), after relentlessly shooting down two dozen Democratic amendments designed to protect Medicare, national parks, education and other GOP targets. "We will finally begin tounpile the deficits," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. "We will finally begin to speak for the future." The GOP package promises $958 billion in savings -- chiefly from Medicare, Medicaid and the elimination of 181 agencies and programs, from the Commerce Department to the Opera-Musical Theater Advisory Panel. Notably absent: $350 billion in tax cuts that more aggressive House...
...weeks ago, some classmates and I took a trip to the United States Supreme Court. The trip was much more than a field trip or a vacation; we had the opportunity to witness oral arguments for two landmark voting rights cases, Hayes v. Louisiana and Johnson v. Miller. Both involved the question of whether Southern states could create congressional districts with a majority of Black voters to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The Court's decision may dramatically change the substantial gains by Blacks in practically all of the Deep South states...
...power, it still holds only a feeble minority of the national population and opinion. Despite the fact that approximately two-thirds of the nation supports gun control, the NRA has marshalled for a repeal of the landmark Brady Bill. With 3.5 million loyal and voting members, the NRA's voice is also heard disproportionately in elections; they compose little over one percent of the population yet five percent of regular voters...
...landmark decision with broad implications for college athletic programs across the U.S., a federal judge ruled last Wednesday that Brown University had discriminated against female athletes when administrators withdrew funding for women's gymnastics and volleyball teams...
...monument, Time made no attempt to interview me. While it is true that none of the sculptures relating directly to F.D.R. depict him in his wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability to focus the public's view on his strengths as a leader, not his handicap. I oppose any attempt to alter, delay...