Like Hansard, Paddy Casey has gone platinum many times over in Ireland, but he hasn't had as many opportunities to find traction here: Amen (So Be It) received a major-label release in 2000 before becoming a find in 99-cent bins from coast to coast, and that's about it.

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The president only named a major senior political adviser at the start of 1994 (Harold Ickes), so there was not sufficient thought given in the White House as to how the bill would be moved through Congress until legislators actually received the bill.

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