Senator Prague, 78, thinks Senator DeLuca, 71, has a vendetta against her from their history of sometimes personal legislative clashes.
2006 – The 'Cash for Peerages' affair, plus a series of legislative clashes between the Lords and the Government, puts reform back on the agenda.
Consumed by fiscal clashes and legislative battles and delayed by painstaking vetting, Mr. Obama has been slow to finish assembling a team to carry him through the second half of his administration.
Also running are former state House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who has extensive legislative experience and often clashed with the Republican governor, and state Sen. Patricia Torres Rey, the first Latina woman to serve in the Minnesota Senate.
Leading House Republicans responded to the president's pledge in the aftermath of the Connecticut school massacre by restating their firm opposition to new limits on guns or ammunition, setting up the possibility of a bitter legislative battle and a philosophical clash over the Second Amendment soon after Mr. Obama's inauguration.
Erik Eckholm (NYT) AFRICA IVORY COAST: PROTEST DEATHS CLIMB The number of deaths mounted as supporters of Alassane D. Ouattara, the opposition leader barred from running in legislative elections next Sunday, continued to clash with security forces.
But it might have cleared the legislative review process if not for the clash between Russia and Georgia.
With a budget and debt limit clash looming in October, the legislative window had already narrowed for any action on immigration, energy efficiency, a new Federal Reserve chairman and an examination of surveillance laws.
But this dispute, which will be fully joined when Mr. Ashcroft himself appears before the committee next week, is not just an abstract clash of executive power and legislative prerogative.
