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...Early in the week it looked certain that a bipartisan bill making it easy for patients to sue their HMOs would pass the House. Republican Charlie Norwood, a dentist turned Congressman and a leading voice on the issue, wasn't bowing to constant pressure from Bush. As Norwood shuttled back and forth between the White House and his allies - including Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy - he promised them he wouldn't sell...
...Engaging China is a bipartisan article of faith...
...deep, from manufacturing American sneakers to launching American satellites. That business connection anchors U.S.-China relations. The corporate interests that fund both political parties in the U.S. strongly discourage any jeopardizing of business with China for ideological or political reasons - maintaining the relationship has become an article of bipartisan faith in Washington right up there with a balanced budget. In Beijing, the reformists have created an equivalent consensus around the fact that China's modernization depends on dramatically expanding foreign trade and investment, which requires a good relationship with the West. And that serves to temper the more hawkish instincts...
...middle of a gas-exploration boom they can't control. In Colorado, a U.S. Forest Service plan to limit motorized access to the White River National Forest has angered off-road-vehicle enthusiasts. In Nevada, a proposed nuclear-waste dump deep inside Yucca Mountain has stirred up bipartisan opposition. In Oregon, Clinton's designation of the Cascade-Siskiyou forest as a national monument is being reviewed by Bush, setting off arguments over public and private land use by loggers, local residents and environmentalists...
...what federal legislators now need to go through, on the grandest of all possible scales, as they meet to hammer out the differences between the education bills recently passed by the House and Senate. While the Bush administration is already congratulating itself for pushing through a "monumental achievement with bipartisan support," the real work has yet to be done. All that's guaranteed right now is that every child in America will be tested every year in grades 3 through 8 in math and reading. But such tests will mean nothing (except big profits for test makers and test review...