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...result, on Aug. 1, in a rare unanimous, bi-partisan vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee allocated $2 billion in reconstruction funds for Afghanistan, including $15 million for the Women’s Ministry and $5 million for the Human Rights Commission. These measures are part of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002. As of Sept. 12, the bill was placed on the Senate legislative calendar, but has not come up yet for a vote...
Announcements of results elicited a mix of cheers and boos in the main room. But in the sanctuary of their assigned rooms, partisan sentiments were more overt...
...moratorium on political campaigning until after the service, yet this mattered little to several of the speakers. Rick Kahn, a close friend of Wellstone’s, delivered a speech that ideally would have been one of the night’s more touching moments. Unfortunately, Kahn injected partisan politics into the mix and actually made a campaign pitch to those in attendance. “We are begging you to help us win this Senate election for Paul Wellstone,” he said. Kahn even urged certain Republicans, by name, to stop supporting their party?...
...ugly and wrong and awful about politics,” Wellstone became friends with the conservative North Carolina senator after they met, and the two ultimately co-sponsored a piece of legislation supporting human rights in Tibet. That was quintessential Wellstone: putting personal conviction ahead of partisan bickering...
That his supporters—after two hours of heart-wrenching and somber speeches—burst into partisan chants is neither surprising nor unfortunate. It is simply an earnest reflection of the gravity of our current circumstances: the competitive and critical upcoming election coupled with the startling absence of leadership approaching Wellstone’s moral caliber. In a crowd of 20,000 mourners, it is unreasonable to expect that thoughts would not drift towards the political struggles to come...