The political challenge facing Senator Dodd and the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, is to demonstrate that this proposal is viable, and not just a means of partisan posturing.
"Congress's Mixed Handiwork" (editorial, Aug. 3) fails to recognize the extraordinary challenge facing Senator Tom Daschle since Democrats took control of the Senate.
What's the main challenge facing Senator Kerry now? d.
After facing Senator Edward M. Kennedy in a bruising nomination battle, he was leading a divided party.
Of all the possible vulnerabilities facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has long believed that the one of the biggest was money, friends and advisers say.
(C) Returning to the pressure Hamas is facing, Senator Kerry observed that economic development in the West Bank is taking place, but not in Gaza.
But admire the restraint of Mr Kerry, who yesterday found himself facing Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, possible presidential aspirant and signatory of the letter, at a hearing on war powers to tackle Isis.
That said, Mr Romney's plan has more chance of success than Hillarycare ever did which could help Mr Romney in 2008, when he will be seeking the Republican presidential nomination and then, perhaps, facing Senator Clinton.
The surprise endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by a popular senator in a battleground state on Friday underlined the ferment in the Democratic nominating race and the serious obstacles facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as she tries to rescue her candidacy.
"If we can't solve this problem and pay for it," asked Mr. Johanns, "how do we ever solve the multitrillion-dollar deficit that this country is facing?" Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who leads the Finance Committee, offered the Democratic proposal that would eliminate the new tax requirements but would not provide additional revenue.
