Ritual Pantoum for Changing the Aquarium
Nicol, Alfred
we allow this kind of price-fixing scheme to make its way to the presidency, made an appearance at Vermont's Saint through Congress, there will be no way to prevent in a log- Albans...
...that preserving the state's dairy farms is as much a conserUnhouse the hermit crab, the shut-in snail, vation issue as a consumer issue...
...Washed by a sun the polished stone beguiles...
...The intent of the designation Or bells invisible among the isles, was to make the University of Vermont eligible for research The hours bring their currency to hand funds on issues like pollution and keeping out the lampreys...
...Lake Champlain lost its designaWashed by a sun the tumbled stone beguiles...
...In 1998, for example, Leahy attached a rider to a bill designating Vermont's Lake ChamLike bits of weathered shell buried in sand, plain one of the Great Lakes...
...When I came here [in 1975] the country was very much at risk and the Senate was in good bipartisan shape," Leahy has lamented...
...For all its And read for meaning that meandering...
...Not surprisingly, the longer he has Ponder over tracings as they're made, stayed in office, the more he has come to like it...
...But the search for compromise has Alfred Nicol gotten harder over the years...
...the seniority system...
...Leahy's seniority gives Vermont some leverage...
...Our overall question is, how do the spethe Aquarium cial-interest deals congressmen make help the public interest...
...In a demographic Read for meaning that meandering, showdown, California would get all the government For bits of weathered shell buried in sand...
...create a certain rough balance of power...
...It's clear that [Leahy is] a participant in a system Return this urchin underneath the sea...
...compact...
...So milk prices went up and the dairy farmers in VerRitual Pantoum for Changing mont were happy...
...It's one of thousands of cases you could point out in which a member of Congress does something for an interest group which would end, in this case, helping a constituency affected [by] the price consumers pay for a product," Eisner says...
...They're trading on that in return for things Pour forth this stir of cells to simply be, that may not help people...
...in which people have access to him who have money and Unhouse the hermit crab, the shut-in snail...
...Upon the passing shadow of a wing Needless to say, providing pork often comes with a little The hours bring their currency to hand...
...As it happened, Bob Dole was running for president game," says Peter Eisner, managing director of The Center and he wanted a farm bill, but the Democrats were prepared for Public Integrity in Washington, a nonpartisan, nonprofto filibuster the GOP version...
...ly to Vermont's cows and pork...
...But The bells invisible among the isles Vermont's senior senator rarely comes away from such nePour forth this stir of cells to simply be, gotiations empty-handed...
...Vermonters, of course, argue And haul up fresh salt water in a pail...
...Having recruited ing mechanisms under the same justification, not only in Lugar to the cause, Leahy mustered enough Democrats to dairy but in other industry," objected Democratic Senator break the filibuster in exchange for Dole's support of the dairy Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin...
...What should one think of Leahy's tending so assiduousAnd muse upon their tracings as they're made...
...want influence...
...tion as a "Great Lake" but not before the University of Return this urchin underneath the sea...
...The senator notes that when When hauling up salt water in a pail, he first came to Washington he was very much opposed to Step carefully around them where they fade...
...largesse...
...Leahy, however, was determined to help rescue Vermont's "The milk story shows that Leahy knew how to play the farmers...
...Those of us who have served here a Commonweal 9 4 June 16, 2000...
...What's the difference between special interest and the public interest...
...Vermont received a $1 million research grant...
...Republican Richard Lugar, it organization that examines public service and ethics-rechairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, also aspiring lated issues with an eye to how money influences politics...
...A person of ready humor, Leahy routinely makes allies everywhere and even has friends across the Senate's most contested battle lines...
...Overnight the vote was reversed...
...we allow this kind of price-fixing scheme to make its way to the presidency, made an appearance at Vermont's Saint through Congress, there will be no way to prevent in a log- Albans Dairy Co-op and saw Leahy's bill as a way into the ical way any other group of states setting up similar price-fix- hearts and votes of New England farmers...
...problems and for all the idiosyncrasies of the pork barrel, if Step carefully beyond them as they fade you represent a state with a population of only half a million, seniority and the clout to effect special-interest legislation Into the passing shadow of a wing...
...senatorial sleight of hand...
...Today the country is doing very well, and we sometimes break down too much along party lines...
...Midwestern senators eventually awakened to this piece of geographical legerdemain and demanded its reversal...
Vol. 127 • June 2000 • No. 12
