Three times in recent weeks, Republicans have used parliamentary tactics in the Senate to block the extension of benefits, angering the president at a time when he is trying to move this and other legislation through Congress before the congressional recess.
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Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the outgoing chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said Tuesday she disagrees with her Democratic leadership's move to block Burris.
But while Mr Grieve - the government's chief legal adviser - would not be drawn on the controversial move to block release of the NHS transition risk register, he doubted whether the case was part of moves to change freedom of information policy.
Should the Bush Administration prove determined nonetheless to press forward with such initiatives, despite the fact that they would have the effect of still further aligning the United States with Gorbachev and his central authorities -- and, as a practical matter, undermining the democratic alternatives -- Congress should move to block these steps .