Ellen Goodman Breach of Contract Political commentators analyze the 104th Congress. Timeline A chronological overview of the rise and fall of the 104th. Lars-Erik Nelson Nelson is a columnist in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the New York Daily News . That's the real difference between this Republican Congress and Republicans of the past.
Big business likes public broadcasting.
They like affirmative action, because they know how to deal with it. They like national regulation, because they operate in 50 states, and they don't want 50 separate states setting regulations. But the small-business guys just want to get rid of the federal standards on health and safety and the minimum wage. They'd rather deal with the Alabama Legislature. Phrases were market-tested.