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Long on New Power in the Senate New Pro Tem Brings in Female Leadership V13 N29 Thursday, March 15, 2007 Long on new power in the Senate New Pro Tem brings in female leadership By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS - A bust of President Abraham Lincoln peered over the shoulder of Senate Presi- dent Pro Tempore David Long in his Statehouse office this week. He had just passed the halfway point of the first ses- sion since 1980 without Robert Garton sitting in that chair, calling the shots, decid- ing which bills lived or died. HPR had watched Long’s career more than a decade ago when he served on the Fort Wayne City Council. In the 1992 race between Sen. John Sinks and Geoff Paddock, Long helped the long- guard in the Indiana Senate time senator fend off the challenge, only to follow Sinks had begun when Morris Mills into the Senate four years later. By 2002, the change of the See page 3 Head trauma of war By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS - You would have thought, when President Bush launched the U.S. on military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, that somewhere, someone like the president himself, or Vice President Cheney, or Defense Secretary Rumsfeld would have put the “I’ve got this new lady I want to memo out: We are the richest nation in the history of the world; we have the have some life with, and I can’t greatest military; we have the finest medical system in the universe. Un- even see her. ” der no circumstance should any of our - U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, answering wounded soldiers ever receive anything but the best, most technologically ad- criticism of missing a committee hearing vanced, timely, clean and compassion- on Walter Reed Medical Center ate health care. Period. Don’t slip up or Page 2 Thursday, March 15, 2007 heads will roll. The Howey Political Report is The Howey Political Report If Washington sounds like a PO Box 40265 published by NewsLink Inc. It Indianapolis, IN 46240-0265. bowling alley these days, it’s because was founded in 1994. heads at the Pentagon are rolling. The www.howeypolitics.com Walter Reed Medical Center scandal Brian A. Howey, Publisher [email protected] is the latest despicable chapter in the Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington Indianapolis Office: 317-506-0883. on-going cluster-screwup of Iraq. Writer A couple of weeks after the Indianapolis Fax: 317-254-0535. Mark Curry, Washington Writer Washington, DC Office: 202-256-5822. Washington Post broke the story, Jack E. Howey, Editor Business Office: 317-254-0535. U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly toured four buildings of the Walter Reed com- Subscriptions: ©2007, The Howey Political Report. plex and reported, “in more than one $350 annually HPR via e-mail; All rights reserved. Photocopying, Internet building, we found mold, peeling paint $550 annually HPR & HPR Daily Wire. forwarding, faxing or reproducing in any and non-functional or old ventilation, Call 317-254-0535. form, in whole or part, is a violation of heating and air conditioning systems. federal law. The problems are not unique to Build- ing 18, the building that was the focal proper vehicle and body armor is an ing it for 30, 40, 50 years.” point of the Washington Post sto- outrage that continues to claim Ameri- Besides expressing your ries. It is crystal clear that extensive can life and limb to this very week. outrage - are you outraged by how renovations are needed.” There can be no excuses. our brave veterans and their families The thing that puzzles me These men and women who volun- are being treated? - there is one thing the most about this Iraq fiasco is that teered for our military are coming Hoosiers can do ... now. many Hoosiers and other Americans back not on airliners or in body bags. Deep in HB 1001, Indiana’s are so willing to applaud the political They are surviving head traumas that biennial budget, Section 65 calls for leaders who got us into this mess, and decades ago would have made them an $18 fine (though supporters want who did so little to equip our men and eligible for Arlington. They are com- it at $10) on some moving traffic viola- women properly, and now through ing back without eyes, arms, legs, tions that would fund brain trauma collective malfeasance have allowed and sometimes with brains that have and spinal cord injury research. There these wounded soldiers to languish in been savaged by g-force and shrapnel. is a direct correlation between motor slumwards. There have been more than 25,000 vehicle accidents and traumatic spinal We may be getting the first wounded, but the New York Times cord and brain injuries, particularly glimpse of the political fallout in Indi- notes that the “signature injury of this among those ages 16-24, which is, ana’s 5th CD, where Dr. John McGoff war” is brain trauma with 1,882 cases of course, the age of many of our is challenging U.S. Rep. Dan Burton being treated to date, according to wounded soldiers from Iraq. in the May 2008 Republican primary, the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury During a period ending in unleashing withering criticism over the Center. 2003, of 194 research project grants congressman missing congressional Last Sunday on ABC’s This awarded nationally, Indiana received hearings on Walter Reed. Week, moderator George Stepha- only one for brain and spinal cord inju- After “winning” our bomb- nopolous interviewed former U.S. ry research. Indiana didn’t receive any ing campaign over Serbia without a Sen. Bob Dole, who was appointed National Institutes of Health grants for casualty, and the relative cakewalk by President Bush to investigate this training and career development. through Kuwait and Southern Iraq in national shame. This is not a situation Hoosiers need to be preparing 1991, perhaps Americans, Congress that is going to fade. “You’ll be dealing for the decades of care that some of and the Bush administration got drunk with this brain injury for 30, 40, 50 our soldiers are going to need. on the notion of early and easy vic- years,” Stephanopolous noted. Many among us were gung tory in Iraq. After severing the head Dole, who earned a Purple ho to go on the offensive in the War of the Saddam regime, there was no Heart during World War II, answered, on Terror. But there will be an ongo- plan and the void allowed a lethal “Right. And I haven’t made any judg- ing price to pay for the sacrifice these insurgency to flourish. It was mission ments, but it seems to me that, if the men and women are paying. accomplished and bring ‘em on. VA is not equipped and Department And there is no excuse for The WMD rationale can at of Defense hospitals are not equipped their recuperation in anything but the least be assigned to multi-nation intel- to deal with these very complex brain best and most advanced medical facili- ligence failure. But the lack of troops injuries, then they ought to go to ties our rich nation has to offer. v for the occupation, or sealing the some private hospital where they are borders, or providing our troops with equipped and where they’ve been do- Page 3 Thursday, March 15, 2007 and Potch Wheeler retired, followed by the 2004 primary HPR: Did you ever dream you’d end up here? upset of Senate Finance Chairman Larry Borst, the equally Long: When I was on the City Council, I thought stunning loss of Garton two years later, and Sen. Joe I would serve one more term and go back to practice law. Harrison’s retirement. During this period of transition, Long Then Sen. Sinks decided he was going to retire. I decided steered through a couple of palace coup attempts by Sens. that would be something interesting. I had helped him with Murray Clark and Luke Kenley to become Garton’s major- his campaign in 1992. So I knew and understood more ity leader, then maneuvered through the messy issue that about this process. But when I came here, my goal was doomed Garton and Borst - legislator health care for life not to become the president of the Senate. I wanted to do - that included a couple of winter 2006 press conferences good and serve eight years and then go back and practice that almost defied logic. law. I’ve been very fortunate to be in this position where I With Garton’s defeat in May 2006, Long spent can do the most good for the people of Indiana, the people six months playing golf with potential rivals such as State of my district and my kids and grandkids. I’m a firm be- Sen. Tom Weatherwax, and in intense dialogue with other liever that we have an obligation to leave this state in much caucus members. It was an October meeting with the better shape financially, economically and any other way six female caucus members - Sens. Teresa Lubbers, Sue we can, by the time we leave here. Landske, Beverly Gard, Con- HPR: As a journalist, I nie Lawson, Vaneta Becker feel the same way. We are and Patricia Miller - and their stewards of the process and subsequent bloc endorsement we hope to hand it off in better several days later that deliv- shape than when we came. ered Long to the Pro Tem. It Long: Because, otherwise, is no coincidence that the Old why are you here? Right? We Man Old Guard has given way do the best we can and also to Long, Assistant Pro Tem- appreciate having the opportu- pore Landske, Majority Floor nity.
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