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Government

May 25, 1999

Senate Parades Its Grandeur And Its Greed

WASHINGTON - On one day last week, with two votes on two different bills, the U.S. Senate first exhibited the prevailing - if at times inelegant - genius of our representative system of government, then, hours later, exposed raw the porcine pitfall that increasingly works to undermine that genius.

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By Daniel A. Shaw
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - On one day last week, with two votes on two different bills, the U.S. Senate first exhibited the prevailing - if at times inelegant - genius of our representative system of government, then, hours later, exposed raw the porcine pitfall that increas...

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