Fortunately, an alarm about this prospect was published in yesterday's Wall Street Journal by the U.S. Senate's top authority on the subject, Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and veteran national security practitioner, Richard Perle .

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Browne and several of the 14 Democrats in the senate who left the state on February 17 sought to downplay comments by Miller to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that Democrats will return to the Capitol soon for a vote on the Republican bill.

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In 1997 the National Journal, a Washington-based magazine, crowned her as the most liberal figure in the Senate: no accolade in a California now increasingly voting for pragmatists.

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