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...promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group, the Renewal Alliance, which includes such Republicans as House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Senators Dan Coats and John Ashcroft, will meet for the first time this week to push a menu of compassion-loaded programs, including flextime, charity tax credits and enterprise zones. Says Kasich: "How kids get educated, how families are doing, how our environment is doing, medical care. Those are the issues we should be pushing...
...being a storm victim might now give her a certain elan. Priscilla Owen or Edith Jones, both circuit court judges, would please conservatives but would rally Democrats. One White House official says that there's close scrutiny of Larry Thompson, who served as Number two in the Ashcroft Justice department. As African-American, Thompson's nomination might help ease racial tensions in the wake of the New Orleans disaster. One concern among administration officials is the large number of cases that Thompson might have to recuse himself from because he participated in them at Justice...
Gonz?les ha tra?do al Departamento de Justicia, un tono m?s mesurado que su predecesor John Ashcroft, sin alterar demasiado su curso o su devoci?n por las metas que lo vincularon a Bush en primera instancia. Hasta ahora se ha mantenido cerca del presidente, lo que le podr?a valer una nominaci?n para la Corte Suprema antes de que el presidente termine su mandato...
...Gonzales has brought a gentler tone to the Justice Department than that of his predecessor, John Ashcroft, but he hasn't much altered its course or his devotion to the goals that first brought him and Bush together. He remains close to the President, which could mean a Supreme Court nomination for Gonzales before Bush's term ends...
...eager to look tough on crime--have been tightening guidelines and further chipping away at their prized independence. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Sensenbrenner once threatened to subpoena a federal district judge's records to see whether he had been too lenient, and a year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal prosecutors to report judges who were similarly showing too much forgiveness...