Campaign Finance Reform? Senate defeats bill on election funding
The Senate rejected a broad campaign finance bill that would have funded Senate elections from general tax returns. The measure, backed by the Administration, would have increased federal regulations and favored incumbents while failing to curb spending by political action groups. The proposal faced criticism for weakening election law and altering democratic government concepts.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Federal Elections Commission
U.S
Thomas Jefferson
Energy leases mixed in Washington news amid delays and court ruling
Washington report notes delays in offshore oil and gas lease schedules from Interior Department and ongoing opposition by Eastern States. A New York appeals court overturned an earlier ban, allowing exploratory drilling off the East Coast by December. The Baltimore Canyon area is cited with potential nine trillion cubic feet of gas and 1.4 billion barrels of oil, with $1.1 billion in federal receipts from last year’s sale.
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Atlantic
Cecil Andrus
Andrus
Alaskan
U.S. Court of Appeals
New York
mid-Atlantic
Department of Interior
Baltimore Canyon
Longest and shortest operas noted with timings
The Immolation Scene from Wagner’s Gotterdammerung runs about 14 minutes 46 seconds in a famed recording. Milhaud’s The Deliverance of Theseus, first staged in 1928, lasts 7 minutes 27 seconds.
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Brunnhilde
Deliverance of
Theseus
Darius Milhaud
Poplar Trees Linked to Greek Tale of Weeping Girls
Ancient Greek myth suggests poplar trees bleed resin as the spirits of three sisters mourn their brother. The tale frames the trees as living witnesses to their grief with symbolic tears.
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