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June 25, 2001
Letters
Vetoed crib bill would have been ineffective
While Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed the Crib Safety Act, it is not due to a lack of concern for the safety of children in hotel rooms, but rather because the bill, as written, simply does not protect children.
Editorials
Senate Democrats' generosity
Senate Democrats and Republicans are at an impasse over the future handling of judicial nominations and other issues that are holding up agreement on how to organize the Senate now that Democrats have majority control. Republican senators, who found themselves in the minority after Jim Jeffords bolted their party, are demanding privileges no minority party has ever before been granted, including a guarantee that every White House nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court will get a full Senate vote. Rather than bluster and posture, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has offered to allow the full Senate, which is split 50 to 49, to decide whether to grant such a guarantee. Daschle said he will vote against it.
Keep stem-cell research
While controversial, stem-cell research has bipartisan support and could be the key to the cure for variousdiseases ailing those who now have little hope.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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