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Senate Minority Whip Foresees Revamped Energy, Highway Bills Passing

Feb. 20, 2004, 12 a.m.

With Senate passage of a massive $318 billion transportation bill, the measure now faces new tests as House Republicans labor to move their own version and President Bush threatens to veto the long-delayed legislation. But Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid (D-Nev.), ranking member of the Environment and Public Works subcommittee on transportation and infrastructure, had a message for opponents of the chamber’s version of the bill when he joined Roll Call Executive Editor Morton Kondracke for a conversation on the election-year battle, noting that if the House GOP is “concerned about the economy,” they “should rush to pass this bill,” and saying flatly of Bush: “I dare him to veto it.”



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Schumer Advocates for Many on Panel

Nov. 16, 12 a.m.

As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, “It’s as useless as tits on a bull.” But as that panel’s chairman during the 110th Congress, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized the opportunity to elevate the traditionally low-profile post to the forefront of shaping policy. Read Full Article

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