Most understated line of the day (at least by 0745hst): "The new 628-page rule is available online". One assumes that it's not a single run-on sentence. The rule in question is the new one allowing polluters a free pass on emissions, just to clarify.
Why people despise politicians, #3713:
"The Senate voted to keep in place a 3.1 percent pay raise scheduled for Jan. 1 for members of Congress and top executive-branch officials. The cost-of-living increase will raise salaries for rank-and-file lawmakers from $150,000 to $154,700. This vote, which occurred during debate on legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security, killed a bid to block the raise."They did this, of course, just as they killed an unemployment benefits extension. "About 830,000 people will be thrown off the unemployment rolls at that point, and an additional 95,000 who exhaust their state benefits each week will get no federal aid thereafter."
Is it any wonder many feel they have forgotten just whom they're elected to represent?
Posted by Linkmeister at November 23, 2002 02:48 PMWow! What a great new look! The calendar on the left navbar is just a little off in Opera (6.05) as the Saturday column hangs just outside the box.
Nonetheless, I like it!
Posted by: ruminator at November 24, 2002 10:23 AM