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‘Bear Trap’ Awaiting Kerry?

By Mark Preston
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 23, 2004, Midnight

As Congressional Democrats rally around Sen. John Kerry’s candidacy for president, Republicans are preparing a plan that would force the Massachusetts Democrat to vote on politically sensitive issues, including judicial nominees opposed by powerful Democratic constituent groups.

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Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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