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...passed by Congress in 1996, threatens foreign companies with sanctions if they invest more than $20 million in a single year in oil and gas projects barred to U.S. firms through unilateral U.S. sanctions. The bipartisan warning from Helms and Biden is likely to raise the profile of the Libya issue at a time when the Bush administration is increasingly concerned with the high cost of oil and energy...
...grouping that appears to have been formed to look at the wide range of options. Smartly, the White House put pro-privatization Democrats to work, including former New York Senator Pat Moynihan. That helps deflect charges of table-rigging by allowing the White House to say the group is "bipartisan...
...blame him for trying. Although Bush entered office with a lot of humble talk about reaching across party lines and building bipartisan compromises on legislation, in practice he's mostly hewed to the role of high bidder, setting out exactly what he wants - usually, what he promised pre-November - and twisting every arm he can find until he gets...
...Democratic opposition. Since then, conservative Republicans have stripped the bill of other remnants of "accountability." It is far from clear whether the bill that passed the Senate education committee would even require states to use a uniform test to measure how their students are performing. Last week a bipartisan group of Senators began daily sessions to put some of the teeth back into the measure. Bush refused to meet with them, and congressional sources say other White House officials had to be prodded into participating. It leaves people wondering what Bush's real goal is--fixing the problem or merely...
Such an apparently laissez-faire approach has prompted a bipartisan group of Senators to begin meeting daily to come up with a strategy to put some of the teeth back into the measure when it reaches the Senate floor at the end of the month. They've already come up with an alternative to vouchers that would fund private tutoring for students in failing schools. But Bush has refused to meet with the group, and congressional sources say other White House officials had to be prodded into participating. "For how big a priority this Administration has made education publicly...