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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered some bad news to Speaker Pelosi from the floor of the upper-chamber: …”There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure. We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats’ turn is over. The Senate has made its decision.”… …Now, go make me a sandwich. McConnell in video: ‘The 1999 precedent does not guarantee witnesses or foreclose witnesses. Let me say that again: it neither guarantees witnesses nor forecloses witnesses. It leaves those determinations until later in the trial where they belong. ‘‘I fully expect the parties will...

In tough economic times, shoppers take haggling to new heights By Michael S. Rosenwald Sunday, January 31, 2010; B01 The price tag on the smooth pair of Cole Haan loafers at Macy's said $148. I considered that a fair opening bid. Standing across from the salesman and the cash register, I said, "Can you knock off 25 percent?" The salesman said, "Can't do it." But I pressed on: "I'll get them on the Internet or at one of your competitors, so let's just do this here." Salesman: "Geez. You're like the second person who has tried to do this today."...

Bush loses patience with UN haggling By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 13/03/2003) The patience of the Bush administration was distinctly threadbare last night as US officials insisted they would not allow themselves to become further bogged down in a diplomatic quagmire at the United Nations. "I just think the whole thing is a fool's chase," a senior Bush administration official told The Telegraph. "We're not going to get a resolution. "The French and the Russians will veto. It doesn't matter what changes you make, the question is how long this is going to drag on, how much further political...