Minority/Majority

Minority/Majority

Three senators caved and supported the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. as Supreme Court Chief Justice. But one lawmaker, banking on the public’s cynicism of the oil industry, wants to tax its windfall profits.

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Permanent Minority.

Three Democratic senators– Patrick Leahy, Russell Feingold and Herb Kohl–voted for archconservative Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the Senate Judiciary Committee, despite Roberts’s extreme views on privacy, civil rights and women’s rights.

Toward the Majority. With nine in ten Americans telling pollsters that oil companies are engaging in price-gouging, Senator Byron Dorgan is crafting legislation to create a windfall-profits tax on the oil industry.

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