They both cared very deeply about NIH and made sure it was a priority regardless of the funding picture," adds Jennifer Zeitzer, legislative analyst for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
She has a huge Senate staff and campaign staff that should be drafting the legislative outlines for a bigger picture approach -- if in fact it is the full spectrum of diplomacy with that she really supports.
In April, when students occupied Taiwan's parliament in protest at one of Mr Ma's trade pacts, Mr Chang and an accompanying entourage of hundreds paid a visit to anti-China protesters at the gates of Taiwan's parliament, the Legislative Yuan (where he is pictured here).
He saw the bigger picture and used his legislative skill to keep thousands of future potential victims out of harms way.
He or she will be expected to develop an overall picture of the government's legislative programme.
Robert W. Lazaro, a spokesman for Peter J. Schmitt, the Republican legislative minority leader, said that a troubling picture of the future was emerging.
Meanwhile, European legislative and regulatory developments are further clouding the picture.
Long-term simulations from the legislative agency I head, the General Accounting Office, paint a chilling picture.
A picture caption on Tuesday with an article about legislative maneuvers used in the federal budget debate misstated the date that the photograph of four Republican senators was taken.
For my money, "Lincoln" is the best picture, because conveying brisk drama in the tedium of legislative maneuvers that ended slavery is no small thing.
