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Meeks Message from Capitol Hill
THE WAVE
Congress has been in recess for about a month. With the exception of a handful of members of Congress who are retiring or running for higher offices, most senators and representatives on both sides of the aisle are either vigorously defending their own seats or actively campaigning for candidates in other districts and states.
The time has come for the world’s leaders to face hard truths concerning the Middle East, specifically the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Later this year, United States President George Bush, will provide for an opportunity to do so as leaders of the U.S., Israel, Palestine, and other Muslim states gather for high-level peace talks.
As Americans from every corner of the nation continue to dream of equal opportunity, once again, our dream may be deferred.
An Article for The Wave of Rockaway
Each Veterans Day, our attempt to capture and pay tribute to what American service personnel have done for our beloved country and the world are summed up in words such as courage and duty and phrases such as to secure and protect our freedom.
Meeks Message from Capitol Hill
THE WAVE
A remarkable thing happened on Election Day: Voters swept Democrats to victory in the House of Representatives by nearly double the 15 seats we needed to become the majority. The electorate also gave Democrats exactly the six seats we needed to regain the Senate majority.
In the wake of last years corporate crime wave, the most dangerous place in Washington was getting between a politician and television camera.
Five years ago the names Enron and Worldcom went from being icons of American corporate success to the poster children for corporate excess and greed. In the wake of these two scandals, where shareholders lost billions of dollars, Congress felt the need to act, or more accurately react, to preserve shareholder confidence in the capital markets.
Meeks Message from Capitol Hill
The Wave
This Monday past America and the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Like most people, I still have a hard time absorbing those events.