A separate report on this issue is due at the end of the summer and we can only hope that it, too, will reach as logical a conclusion as the committee as on European arrest warrants.
His supporters are collecting signatures for a separate referendum on this issue.
"It's clear that he has separated himself from the pack on this issue, and it's a brave and commendable move," he said.
AAPA President Susan Antón of NYU says that for years the organization has had a code of ethics that prohibits sexual harassment, but that after the SAFE study, she and other AAPA leaders realized that it needed a separate, more detailed statement focusing specifically on this issue.
But they rejected on a 240-to-173 vote a procedural effort by Representative Jim Matheson, Democrat of Utah, to hold a separate vote on the issue.
And while Mr. McCain never introduced a separate bill on the issue, he did secure passage of an amendment to the 1997 budget bill that gave the commission the authority to auction licenses.
The council, composed of the country's president and two vice presidents, signed that measure into law early last month but directed Parliament to pass separate legislation on the issue.
But they succeeded in winning agreement for a separate vote on that issue next week -- Senate Democrats are sure to defeat it -- and in keeping in the budget deal a provision that would restrict abortion financing in Washington.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to give abortion opponents a separate vote on that issue, a sign of her confidence that she could clinch the votes without further changes to the bill.
The USGA rules pooh-bahs disagreed, and the two sides continued to maintain separate codes on the issue until the Great Rapprochement of 1952, when center shafts were once again allowed into the kingdom.
