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...accountability. With more than 40 federal agencies now sharing responsibility for domestic security, accountability is spread too thin and bureaucratic gaps are too common. A coordinator who organizes interagency task forces and working groups has neither authority nor accountability. He or she cannot order that anything be done. Beltway skeptics talk about the inevitable bureaucratic resistance to our proposal for a new agency. I, for one, would like to hear one Cabinet officer argue that it is more important to protect his or her bureaucratic prerogative than it is to protect the people of the U.S. With congressional support...
...sprawling commuter district west of Chicago, which also includes Ronald Reagan's hometown. Heavyset and rumpled, Hastert looks a little like comedian Drew Carey. In public his staff addresses him as Mr. Speaker, but in private he prefers that they simply call him Denny. He shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches the first plane he can back to his modest Yorkville, Ill., home across from a cornfield on Route 34. When he became Speaker, his security detail told him he'd have to lock his doors at night...
...Donald Rumsfeld arrived at the Department of Defense with a reputation as a formidable Beltway get-things-done-er, the only man Henry Kissinger feared facing at the negotiating table. He?d even held the job before. And so when George W. Bush told him to tackle the most overdue job in town - redesigning the military along post-Cold-War lines, and securing the cooperation of Congress and the Pentagon to make it happen - everybody figured Rummy had at least a fighting chance...
...deal to leave town and take the news with them. Congressmen go on recess and head back to their home districts; the White House usually follows suit. And the big-time journalists and pundits that dutifully fill newspapers, magazines, cable channels and web sites with all that familiar Beltway blather have their best chance to skip town without missing too much. (Except for those so desperate to be on television that they won't even schedule a vacation...
...Outside the Beltway, many in the scientific community view the vote with a mixture of resignation and intense frustration. "I think this decision is stupid, and I use that word very deliberately, because I don?t think anyone?s really thought about the issues here," says Greg Pence, a bioethics professor in the medical school at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. "What do people think happens in assisted reproduction? In a population of hopeful parents, it takes hundreds of embryos to successfully create one baby. What do they think happens to those other hundreds of embryos...