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...Rep. Jim Kolbe's Legal Tender Modernization Act would...
...Resources Committee forwarded by a 26-17 vote the Administration's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and exempt oil companies for two years from paying government royalties on oil obtained under new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking notes for Senate Democrats, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., called the product a $7.4 billion ''grab bag of goodies for big oil'' and an ''unprecedented assault on our resources...
...sponsors, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Martin Meehan, added last-minute sweeteners to allow these groups to raise some soft money for their get-out-the-vote programs. But House Speaker Dennis Hastert had managed to drain support for the Shays-Meehan bill with a substitute drafted by GOP Rep. Robert Ney which capped soft-money donations to national parties at $75,000. With the outcome too close to call, Hastert ordered the Rules Committee to rig the floor procedure for considering the measure so that Shays and Meehan faced 22 potentially hostile amendments (including the Ney bill...
Serious campaign finance reform triumphed in the Senate, and now the House is poised to begin heated debate over two divergent bills. (One, sponsored by Reps. Christopher Shays and Martin Meehan, looks a lot like the victorious McCain-Feingold, while the other, sponsored by Rep. Robert Ney, and favored by the G.O.P., leaves a lot of contributory loopholes wide open...
...bill in the state legislature, introduced by Cambridge Rep. Alice K. Wolf, would extend the running of the MBTA until 2:30 every night. That bill is on hold pending the results of the new initiative, legislators on the Joint Committee on Transportation said...