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...federal appeals court. And just last week the Senate, by a 60-to-40 vote, sent him John McCain's campaign-finance-reform bill, which he does not want to sign but will, and stalled an energy bill that allows drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which the White House has lobbied furiously to pass...
...then there's the tatters of what was supposed to be the Senate's real business this week - debating energy policy. With Ken Lay's ghost haunting the House version and deep disagreements over everything from CAFE standards to alternative energy sources to ANWR drilling, actual legislation seems unlikely to emerge. But just as the fruitless economic stimulus fight centered on "getting America working again," every congressional debate has an agreed-upon theme. This one? "Reducing our dependence on foreign...
...White House, in chorus with the Ken Lays of the world, simply advocated more exploration, more production and more deregulation - oh, and for the personally virtuous, more conservation. There was indisputably more for business than for the environment in proposals to drill the Alasksan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) and to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. An unapologetic Bush was not going to curb coal, oil or nuclear energy - at least until he won West Virginia again...
...Bush is keeping the energy mood as light and green as he can, posing next to fuel-efficient, low-emissions, hybrid-type cars - a truck, an SUV, and a minivan, no less - but he doesn't appear to be backing down on ANWR or Yucca Mountain. And with House passage giving him some rhetorical leverage over Daschle - "the Senate must pass something," that sort of thing - Bush will be pushing pretty hard for the chance to notch a win on the domestic front...
...Daschle's Senate has proven a lot better at shouting than at passing legislation, however, and with the Democrats toting around a bill of their own - one that's expected to attract 200 amendments - well, there's just so much to fight about. ANWR and Yucca, CAFE standards and fuel cells. Should we subsidize coal to help make it cleaner, or subsidize cleaner energy? Give more tax breaks for producers, or for conservers? What about ethanol? And of course there's the deregulation fight, and the very NIMBYist issue of transmission-grid siting, which brings us back to Enron...