National Journal articles from November 2001

National Journal archives from November 2001

Are we really ready for the costs of engagement? (The Scene).(a look at the United States' War on Terrorism)
November 3, 2001... Kabul town's a blasted place--Blow the bugle, draw the sword-- Forgive me; but reading some of the war coverage has got me thinking in Kipling couplets, especially ones that involve Afghanistan. I also find myself saying "Cheerio, old...

Politically incorrect profiling: a matter of life or death. (Opening Argument).
November 3, 2001... What would happen if another 19 well-trained Al Qaeda terrorists, this time with 19 bombs in their bags, tried to board 19 airliners over the next 19 months? Many would probably succeed, blowing up lots of planes and thousands of people, if the...

The west should not underestimate the Islamic threat. (Wealth Of Nations).
November 3, 2001... From the moment the evidence suggested that Islamic terrorists were behind the atrocities of September 11, George W. Bush has emphasized that America's fight is not with Islam but with murderous extremists who are perverting a great religion....

Shock therapy: over the decades, America has been jolted by everything from assassinations to sneak attacks. Some shocks were transformational; others were ephemeral. How long will the effects of September 11 last? (Cover Story).
November 3, 2001... More often than not, the great metamorphoses in American life creep up on us. The drive for civil rights, for instance, evolved over a nearly 15-year period in the 1950s and 1960s. It began with the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board...

Troops and consequences: America's track record in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan suggests that today's solutions can lead to tomorrow's problems. (Risks Of Engagement).
November 3, 2001... When the mujahedeen David ousted the Soviet Goliath from Afghanistan in 1989, the United States congratulated itself. Over the previous decade, the CIA had covertly funneled money and arms to the Afghan resistance, offered it training, and...

A chance to rewrite history: in the aftermath of bloody Tuesday, the White House can painlessly modify some of its controversial international policies. But will it? (Foreign Policy) (Cover Story).
November 3, 2001... Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage exhibited no patience for the usual diplomatic niceties when he met on September 12 with Gen. Mahmud Ahmed, a senior Pakistani official, on the seventh floor of the State Department's Foggy Bottom...

How deep is your love? (Congress).(request for aid by New York city after terrorist attacks)
November 3, 2001... Everybody's loved New York since September 11. Even Red Sox fans, whose hatred of the Yankees is legendary, have held up "We [love] New York" signs at Boston's Fenway Park to show their sympathy for the city devastated by terrorist attacks....

The lonesome dissenters. (Congress).(legislators who voted against the use of violence after the September 11th attacks)
November 3, 2001... Opposing the U.S. war against terrorism is not for the fainthearted. With the nation and its elected leaders largely unified behind President Bush's handling of the conflict, the lonesome dissenters on Capitol Hill have found themselves under...

Will the moderates ride again? (Congress).(economic and tax policies of legislators)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... A gaggle of reporters was recently waiting outside the office of Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, where members of the Senate Centrist Coalition were sorting through options for the stalled economic stimulus plan. Centrists believe they are in the...

Pivotal events in congress. (The Week on the Hill).
November 3, 2001... OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 1 House Turbulent Over Airport Security After three weeks of high-profile lobbying and behind-the-scenes arm-twisting, the House at press time on November 1 was engaged in a too-close-to-call debate over how best to...

A government wired but wary. (Administration).
November 3, 2001... Everybody agrees that both open government and cyber-security are generally good things. But pursuing the two goals at the same time may now prove difficult for the Bush Administration. Open government means efficient information-sharing...

Cyber-safety goes global. (Administration).
November 3, 2001... The Bush Administration is moving quickly to fill the gaps in its plans to protect critical U.S. infrastructure systems such as telecommunications, financial services, and transportation. But private-sector Internet-security experts say the...

Bioterrorism. (Poll Track: views on policy and politics).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 3, 2001... FEAR IN THE WORKPLACE Despite reports of widening anthrax contamination, adults surveyed by Zogby said that even if they worked in a place that might be the target of an anthrax attack, they would continue working. Seventy-three percent...

War dispatches. (Poll Track: views on policy and politics).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 3, 2001... SMOKING OUT BIN LADEN It's been more than a month since the United States launched its military action in Afghanistan. Americans remain skeptical that the military will be able to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, but they are more...

The approval game. (Poll Track: views on policy and politics).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 3, 2001... THE HOME TEAM The early reviews are in: Haft of Americans think that Tom Ridge's efforts at coordinating homeland security are having a positive effect. In a Newsweek poll, 52 percent said that the former Pennsylvania governor is "already...

Quinn Gillespie's down, and up, ride. (Lobbying & Law).(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... For Quinn Gillespie & Associates, this year has brought the worst of times and the best of times. In January, lawyer John M. "Jack" Quinn, who co-founded the high-profile lobbying firm nearly two years ago, was embroiled in a controversy...

Selling the Saudi message. (Lobbying & Law).(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Saudi Arabia, which calls itself a U.S. ally in the war on terrorism, has hired at least two K Street consulting and lobbying shops to improve its image and political standing in Washington. The Saudi government has faced intense criticism in...

Grounded by the airline bailout. (Lobbying & Law).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Todd Hauptli has been a very busy man since September 11. As the senior vice president for legislative affairs at both the American Association of Airport Executives and the Airports Council International-North America, Hauptli has been...

High tech's Hollings problem. (Lobbying & Law).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Columnist George Will once called Sen. Ernest F. Hollings the human cactus, because sooner or later, opponents seem to get stuck by the prickly South Carolina Democrat's thorns. Over the years, almost every industry--from airlines to...

Exodus at Verner, Liipfert continues. (From the K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... The downsizing at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand is picking up steam with the coming departure of the 20 lawyers and lobbyists who make up the firm's energy practice. Just recently, the successful practice had been deemed one of...

Kansas governor in driver's seat. (From the K Street Corridor).(Bill Graves, American Trucking Associations)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Gov. Bill Graves, R-Kan., beat out several Washington veterans when he was tapped as the new president and chief operating officer of the American Trucking Associations, transportation sources say. The ATA announced on October 30 that Graves...

Solomon group promises to carry on. (From the K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Although saddened by the October 26 death of their firm's founder, former Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon, R-N.Y., the remaining members of the Solomon Group are vowing to continue. "We have had very positive and supportive discussions with our...

Imagery first, weaponry second: propaganda war. (Issues & Ideas).(Interview)
November 3, 2001... Chuck de Caro's message is his medium. He has lived and worked in the blurred boundaries between the military and the media since the 1980s, when he covered Nicaragua's anti-communist guerrillas for the then-fledgling CNN. For the past decade,...

Jumping the gun on terrorism? Civil liberties. (Issues & Ideas).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... In normal times, there would have been a year or more of hearings, markups, and votes--not to mention lobbying, press conferences, and media coverage--before Congress passed a sweeping law that affects basic civil liberties in the United...

Vocal heroes: on the media. (Issues & Ideas).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... For a second there, newsies were almost flirting with heroism. When some of our tribe got anthrax, we were briefly spoken of in the same breath as the firefighters, cops, mail carriers, and other government workers extolled for their...

The Best of Times: American in the Clinton Years. (McHistory and Its Discontents).(Review)
November 3, 2001... The Best of Times: American in the Clinton Years: By Haynes Johnson Harcourt 610 pages $27.00 In the opening pages of this big, baggy Cook's tour of the very late 20th century, Haynes Johnson has the misfortune to observe that at the end...

Wireless Nation. (How Prophets and Villains Got Filthy Rich).(Review)
November 3, 2001... Wireless Nation By James B, Murray Jr. Perseus Publishing 338 pages $27.50 Once upon a time in America, a backward people communicated via a quaint device called the telephone. Though their lot in life surpassed that of the...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas, Pentagon. (Talking About Defense).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Christmas is coming to the Pentagon early this year, thanks to a growing number of Santa Clauses in Congress. They are in the process of increasing this year's military budget from $317 billion to at least $324 billion, and perhaps as much as...

Davis's prospects a bit dimmer. (Politics).(California Governor Gray Davis)
November 3, 2001... Not too long ago, California Democratic Gov. Gray Davis looked like an almost sure bet to win re-election. The state's Republicans were moribund, and Davis had averted the rolling power blackouts that had been forecast for last summer. But...

The pragmatic left. (Politics).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... In 2000, Ralph Nader's Green Party candidacy attracted quite a few left-wing Democrats at the expense of Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore. Now, as the Green Party continues to expand, pragmatic left-wing Democrats are scrambling to make...

Trying times generating an odd mix of emotions. (The Cook Report).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... BATON ROUGE, La.--Americans are dealing with the threat of terrorism and the outbreak of anthrax with an odd combination of patriotism, confusion, and annoyance. While still strongly supportive of the nation's political leadership--President...

Don't count her out. (Hotline Extra).(Hillary Rodham Clinton)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Isn't this the same scenario that got Hillary Rodham Clinton's husband elected President? The Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling writes that pollster John Zogby "teased us with this little tidbit: He said his finding showed" Sen....

Split dissension. (Hotline Extra).(California Republican candidates for governor)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... There's nothing like infighting to bring a party together. California's three Republican candidates for governor "squabbled" last week "over age, pedigree, and campaign tactics at a daylong convention aimed at softening the GOP's image" in the...

No pepper games. (Hotline Extra).(New York City mayoral race)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... As long as he's spending his own money, why not bring the Dodgers back to Brooklyn? In the New York City mayoral race, media mogul Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, "pumped a whopping $420,000 [of his own money] into his ad buys" during the...

Titanic problem? (Hotline Extra).(Phil Bredesen's gubernatorial campaign)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Of course, the Titans' losing record probably isn't a plus. Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams will host a fundraiser for former Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen, the Democrat who `negotiated the deal to bring the NFL to Nashville." The November 13...

Razing the bar. (Hotline Extra).(blood alcohol standards, Ohio)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... There's nothing like an open bar to break a legislative logjam, but there won't be "free booze served to Ohio legislators this time. Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, who is a Republican, "cut off an attempt by a fellow lawmaker to...

The potus diet. (Hotline Extra).(George W. Bush's food habits)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Move over PB&J, President Bush has a new favorite food. Singapore's Straits Times reports that the staff at the hotel where Bush stayed during his visit to Shanghai, China, "revealed" that Yangzhou fried rice and sweet-and-sour pork were among...

Checks and the mail. (Hotline Extra).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... First, he praised Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle, D-S.D. Now, Rep. John Thune, R-S.D., has to put his campaign to unseat Sen. Timothy P. Johnson, D-S.D., on hold because of Daschle. The South Dakota Senate race "has been overshadowed...

Quotables. (Hotline Extra).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... "[McGreevey's] wife is pregnant right now, his baby is kicking, you can feel it. That is a human being."--New Jersey GOP gubernatorial nominee Bret Schundler drawing a personal link on the abortion issue to his Democratic opponent, Jim...

International AIDS Trust. (Image-makers).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Neel Lattimore has this to say about his new employer: "I hope in 10 years this organization goes out of business." Lattimore, 41, is the new communications director for the International AIDS Trust, which formed recently to fight the threat of...

Reading Is Fundamental Inc. (Interest Groups).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Teaching children to read is no easy task, says Carol Hampton Rasco, the new president and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental Inc., a nonprofit group that advocates literacy for children. Rasco learned this firsthand as a sixth-grade teacher in...

The Paralyzed Veterans of America. (Interest Groups).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... The Paralyzed veterans of America--a group that regularly takes on the government and wins--has a new chief financial officer, Bruce Livingston. Twenty years ago, as a petty officer in the U.S. Navy, Livingston took care of his fellow sailors...

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (Interest Groups).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... As a policy attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Jocelyn Samuels helped draft the report that said employers who covered prescription drugs without including contraception were in violation of Title VII, which prohibits...

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. (Interest Groups).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... There is a new face on the government affairs team at the Falls Church, Va.-based National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Heather Eilers-Bowser, 29, last week became the organization's director of legislative affairs....

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. (In the Tanks).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... "The idea that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is ludicrous," Clifford D. May declares. "Terrorism is never justifiable." That's one of the basic beliefs of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank...

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (In the Tanks).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has hired two staff members for its new China Program, which will expand the institute's current research on political reform. New Senior Associate Michael Swaine will co-direct the program with...

Labor Department's Bureau of International Labor Affairs. (Around the Agencies).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... After college, Michael Magan, the new associate deputy undersecretary in the Labor Department's Bureau of International Labor Affairs, took a year in Peru to teach executives English and to connect with his father's extended family there. He...

The Business Roundtable. (Hill People).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... House Rules Committee Majority Staff Director Vincent D. Randazzo is leaving the committee after more than 17 years to become the director of public policy at the Business Roundtable. In his new job, Randazzo, 42, will grapple with health and...

First International Resources Inc. (Lobby Shops).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... When James F. Collins was a high school student in the Chicago suburbs, he played the bells in a production of the Russian opera Boris Godunov. That experience sparked his interest in Russian language and culture. More than 40 years later,...

Washington law firm Van Ness Feldman. (Lobby Shops).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... "I'm eager to be more active in the policy arena now that energy is back on the agenda," says former Rep. Philip Sharp, D-Ind. That's why he has become a senior policy adviser for Washington law firm Van Ness Feldman. Sharp, who served in...

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. (Lobby Shops).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Another former Congressman from Indiana, Republican David McIntosh, is taking a job in the private sector. McIntosh, 43, recently became a partner with Mayer, Brown & Platt, a global law firm, in its government practice group. He will...

Insurance against the once unthinkable. (Political Pulse).(Brief Article)
November 3, 2001... Insurance agents are pros at getting people to contemplate the unthinkable. Now, in the aftermath of September 11, one member of Congress has assumed the role of insurance agent for the Republic. "These are questions that were once...

Is it really time to harp on welfare reform? You bet it is. (The Scene).
November 10, 2001... So much for unity. As befits something called a "stimulus package," the crafting of the economic recovery legislation that President Bush has demanded from Congress by month's end has snapped both parties into their customary Pavlovian...

A nuclear nightmare: it could happen today. (Opening Argument).
November 10, 2001... Few things concentrate the mind like the prospect of a nuclear mushroom cloud in your own neighborhood. So please concentrate on this: I asked Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., a sober, respected, retired career arms control official who was...

The Arapat era is over, and it's almost time to say so. (Social Studies).
November 10, 2001... In the eight years since the Oslo peace process flowered and then failed, Israel has had five prime ministers, but the Palestinians have had only Yasir Arafat. Perhaps, then, it was not so surprising that when Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign...

Contagious confusion: the American public health system is decentralized and uncoordinated, and its response to anthrax wasn't pretty. But some lessons are being learned.
November 10, 2001... In a way that the far bloodier September 11 attacks did not, the anthrax assault has required unprecedented collaboration: among law enforcement, emergency management, and public health officials; among federal, state, and local government; and...

Still hooked on oil: dependence on imported oil--far greater than before the energy shocks of the '70s--is leaving the nation vulnerable if the saudis were to turn off the spigot. (Energy).
November 10, 2001... America has a short memory when it comes to oil and the dangers of its addiction to oil's most alluring product, gasoline. Only three decades ago, an Arab oil embargo triggered severe gasoline shortages across the United States and forced...

Mixing oil and instability.(Statistical Data Included)
November 10, 2001... Back in September 1980, during the early days of the war between Iran and Iraq, The Economist ran a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with a provocative headline: "What's a nice thing like oil doing in a place like this?" That question...

Turning point. (Where we stand: a commentary on public education and other critical issues).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... September 11th represents a turning point in America's history, and our schoolchildren will study the causes and consequences for years to come. As we emerge from the shadow of that horrific day, it is worth noting that in America, even out of...

Osama's learning curve: from its origins in the late 1980s to today, Al Qaeda has become more innovative and more lethal with every move. How Bin Laden did it. (Terrorism).
November 10, 2001... In Washington's broad counter-terrorism campaign of the 1990s, few actions backfired as badly as the one called Operation Infinite Reach. In response to the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network in...

More than a spat? Friction between Washington and Tel Aviv leads some Israelis and their American allies to fret that a far-reaching seismic shift is under way. (Foreign Affairs).
November 10, 2001... When Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres returned home from a late-October pulse-taking visit to the United States, he told the reporters who were waiting for him on the tarmac at Tel Aviv: "The Americans have moved from one era to another....

Pitfalls to adjournment. (Congress).
November 10, 2001... Two years ago, it was cows: Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., held up Congress's adjournment the week before Thanksgiving because of a dispute involving the Northeast Dairy Compact. Last year, it was fish: Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, objected to approval...

Pivotal events in congress. (The Week on the Hill).
November 10, 2001... NOVEMBER 5-8 Conferees Seek Fast Aviation Security Deal As House-Senate conferees met on November 7 to begin reconciling the differences between their aviation security bills, negotiators expressed hope that they would complete their...

Congress daily's final word.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Between Christmas and New Year, we're going to do energy. What do you think?" --Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle, D-S.D., joking with reporters about when the Senate might debate energy legislation, given its crowded pre-adjournment...

Kit bond unglues senate GOP. (Congressional Chronicle).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Sen. Christopher S. Bond is no rabble-rouser. The 62-year-old Missouri Republican is not a politician who relentlessly seeks headlines or makes waves. He generally works behind the scenes. But his unassuming Midwestern style should not be...

Microsoft makes a deal. (Administration).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... In June 1995, a European Ariane 5 rocket exploded on takeoff, destroying its cargo of satellites worth $500 million, because one part of its software could not understand a number created by another part. In 1998, the USS Yorktown effectively...

Fed up and forcing change. (Administration).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has probably dreaded thumbing through his press clippings. Day after day, it seems, journalists highlight every hole in the country's airport security system and...

Bringing on broadband--slowly. (Administration).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... With American companies clamoring for ever-faster Internet access, and with the United States falling behind other countries in deploying the broadband communications technology that provides such high-speed access, many in the...

What's next in this crazy war? (Talking About Defense).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... What could and should happen in this strange new war in Afghanistan between now and Christmas? Unless the Northern Alliance continues to suffer from a case of "the slows"--the complaint President Lincoln registered against George B....

Wheeling and dealing for new income. (Lobbying & Law).
November 10, 2001... When former Rep. Henson Moore, R-La., became the president of the American Forest & Paper Association in 1995, he understood a thing or two about business mergers. The AF&PA had been formed just two years earlier when the National Forest...

Bork and Cassidy call it quits. (Lobbying & Law).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Once hyped as the ideal K Street partnership, the marriage between Bork & Associates and the Cassidy Cos. has dissolved. Advertising and public relations conglomerate Interpublic Group of Cos., which owns Cassidy, has shut down the...

A left-right blast at the stimulus plan. (Lobbying & Law).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Politicians are fond of saying they've solved a problem when they've come up with a solution that upsets both the Left and the Right. If that's true, the House, with some backing from the Bush Administration, has put together one heck of an...

Boeing flies right with Paxon. (From The K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... It pays to have friends in high places, and that's what helped Boeing Co. win a provision in the Houses airline security bill that limits the aircraft manufacturer's liability in the September 11 attacks. Boeing turned for help to a top outside...

Anti-tax group tightens its belt. (From The K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... The conservative advocacy group Americans for Fair Taxation. which supports a national sales tax, has closed its Washington office and laid off four Washington-based employees. Among those laid off was the office's chief, Rob Hartwell, who is a...

They're eyeing teapot dome. (From The K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... A Houston-based oil company wants Congress to allow the firm to form a partnership with the Energy Department to test technology that could reduce drilling's environmental impact and its financial costs. Omega Oil Co. wants to dig a 3,500-foot...

Christian group seeks funds. (From The K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... The conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America has sent out a plea for financial help, saying that contributions have fallen by 56 percent since September 11. "If Concerned Women for America cannot raise $500,000 in the next two...

Gay and lesbian activists claim victories. (From The K Street Corridor).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign are calling the November ii election "a smashing success" for gay rights. Gay activists claimed victory in four of the five municipalities around the country that voted on...

Democrats score off-year double. (Politics).
November 10, 2001... Remember when some Democrats talked longingly after the 2000 presidential election about energizing their party's left flank to win elections? Someone forgot to remind James E. McGreevey and Mark R. Warner. They each reached beyond their...

Democrats' good night no rejection of Bush. (Politics).
November 10, 2001... There's a natural tendency to read too much into the results of off-year elections, but it's equally mistaken to assume they can't offer any lessons for next year. Looking at the results of Tuesday's odd-year elections, one could argue that...

Between here and there. (Hotline Extra).(Joseph Lieberman fundraising in New Hampshire)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... First, it was former Vice President Al Gore. Now, the second half of the 2000 Democratic ticket has stumped in the Granite State. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., spent a "busy weekend" in New Hampshire courting Democrats. Between fundraisers,...

Dean of the class? (Hotline Extra).(Dean Howard, John Edwards Democaratic party presidential aspirations?)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Nothing fuels presidential speculation like governors talking about national issues. Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said that fellow Democrats shouldn't be "caving in" to Republican demands "for more tax cuts for the sake of national unity." Dean...

Sanders bagged. (Hotline Extra).(Bernard Sanders)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... And speaking of Vermont's governorship, Rep. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., announced he will seek re-election rather than run for Howard Dean's post in 2002. After Dean announced he wouldn't run for re-election, Sanders "created a furor" by saying he...

Letter opener. (Hotline Extra).(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Will Tom Ridge be on Jeanne Shaheen's Christmas card list, too? Republicans are "denouncing" New Hampshire Gov. Shaheen's letter to Homeland Security Director Ridge "as a bit of political posturing." Shaheen, a Democrat, "sent an open letter"...

Falling off the charts? (Hotline Extra).(Mary Landrieu, John Cooksey election)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2001... Don't call Louisiana Democrat Mary L. Landrieu's Senate seat safe. Just call it safer. The New Orleans Times-Picayune's Bill Walsh reports that Landrieu's name has "fallen far down" on Republican lists of "vulnerable" Democrats. Landrieu won...