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Senate Partisanship Worst in Memory; Key Legislation Languishes as Democrats and Republicans Jockey for Power
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May 2, 2004
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The Senate was bogged down in its latest snarl last Wednesday when
an angry John McCain (R-Ariz.) blurted out publicly what many
colleagues have been muttering in private: "Why don't we just go home
. . . rather than go through this charade of telling Americans that
we are legislating?"
McCain's tart observation reflected the paralysis that has gripped
the Senate this year. The Senate is famously known for its painfully
slow pace and legislative quicksand, and few had high hopes for
significant achievements this year. But a breakdown in comity, the
razor-thin GOP majority and expectations of a tight battle for Senate
control in November have combined to produced one of the worst Senate ...
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