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...bipartisan Commission on America's National Interests cited that ensuring the viability and stability of major global systems, such as the environment, was vital to national self-interest. Madeleine Albright recently declared AIDS a threat to U.S. national security. Both decisions were well-substantiated. Environmental problems can either directly affect the well-being of Americans or act indirectly by destabilizing foreign regions, posing a potential threat to the U.S. The same reasoning applies to public health problems, with the AIDS pandemic being an obvious example...
...This won't have a souring effect, because Chavez has pulled out before hostile hearings and a spectacle on Capitol Hill that would cause partisan bitterness afterward. What will affect relations on the Hill will be how the Ashcroft hearings are handled...
...will the withdrawal of Linda Chavez as labor secretary nominee affect the Bush team's transition plans...
...Will the defeat over Chavez affect the Bush administration's relations with Capitol Hill...
...Jones average was still at 8,500. And for Lindsey, a dedicated supply sider, the remedy for recession just happens to be a tax cut. Most economists insist, however, that tax cuts have very little effect on recessions, largely because their benefits kick in too late to affect the problem. To pre-empt his critics, Bush could redesign his proposal to provide accelerated benefits. One possibility being discussed among his advisers would be to change the formula by which payroll taxes are withheld, as his father did in 1992. That would put extra cash in taxpayer pockets quickly...