Heroic or Out of Line,' Feingold Gets Noticed; Call for Bush Censure Is a Political Hot Potato
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › March 16, 2006
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Washington Having gained little support in the Senate but a great deal of attention, Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold already was declaring a victory of sorts Wednesday in his lonely bid to censure President Bush over the government's once-secret domestic wiretapping program.
"It's doing what I had hoped," Feingold said. "As difficult as this is, everybody is now talking again about what I consider to be one of the fundamental issues which is what do you do when the president of the United States thumbs his nose at the law."See the full content of this document
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Heroic or Out of Line,' Feingold Gets Noticed; Call for Bush Censure Is a Political Hot Potato
Feingold's critics saw it differently.
"This is once more Feingold the gadfly, just like he was on the Patriot Act," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, who clashed with Feingold in recent months over renewing the hotly debated anti-terrorism law."He had no impact on the Patrio...See the full content of this document
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