Underscoring the difficult path gun curbs face in the GOP-run House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, repeated his plan to wait for the Senate to produce something and pointedly noted that the background check agreement had yet to pass Senate muster.

NPR: Senate Ready To Launch Gun Control Debate

With House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) declining to run for a leadership post in the minority, the front-runner for Republican leader is the current majority leader, John Boehner of Ohio.

NPR: After the Election, New Races on Capitol Hill

Most Republicans are waiting for what they now believe to be the inevitable candidacy of Gov. Christie Whitman (R), who cannot run for re-election in 2001.

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Robert Dole (R-Kan.) acted correctly in quitting the Senate to run full-time for president.

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As European peripheral countries have found out to their cost, interest rates increase when governments run large budget deficits, and as they do it becomes increasingly difficult to reduce r-g to a sustainable level.

ECONOMIST: Daily chart

Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.

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