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To: LindyBill who wrote (45315)	5/18/2004 5:53:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793963

Looks like Daschle won. Daschle: Accord Reached to End Judicial Stalemate May 18, 1:16 PM (ET) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said on Tuesday he and the White House reached agreement to end a seven-week Democratic procedural roadblock of President Bush's noncontroversial judicial nominees. Daschle expressed confidence that fellow Senate Democrats would sign off on the accord later in the day, clearing the way for the Senate confirmation of a couple dozen of the judicial candidates who enjoy bipartisan support. But Daschle said Democrats would continue to oppose a half dozen contentious nominees, many of whom have been denounced by critics as right-wing extremists. Daschle vowed in March to block all judicial nominees with a procedural blockade unless Bush promised to no longer use his constitutional power to temporarily seat judges while the Senate was on recess. The president made two recess appointments earlier this year. While the president had resisted giving up such power, Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, said the White House had assured him Bush would make no more recess appointments this year.

To: LindyBill who wrote (45315)	5/18/2004 10:09:19 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793963

I keep saying over and over and over, John. It's not money. Yes, you do. But this is about as sparse an argument as it gets. Who knows what accounts for these differences. To restate my own views, much too briefly. I don't argue, don't even think it's possible to argue, at least on the basis of any serious set of data, that money alone will solve educational problems. But, by the opposite token, I don't see how it's possible to improve inner city education without adding lots of money. Perhaps even more than comparable suburban schools, precisely because the variables this article summons up. But I continue to be fascinated by the number of reasonably well off folk who argue money doesn't matter about schools but make certain they either send their kids to expensive private schools or make certain they live in suburban areas with well funded public schools.