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...bill which encompasses President George W. Bush's hopes for change in education was approved unanimously last Thursday by a bipartisan Senate committee. If passed, the bill would require standardized testing by states for all public school students in grades three through eight for both reading and math. It would also force states to allow federal testing, based on national standards, of a sample population of these students. Furthermore, the plan would penalize schools that did not meet government standards...
...Larry did spend eight years as part of an administration, but his roots are in higher education. He doesn't want to politicize higher education. The treasury was one of the least political parts of the government. He got a lot done in Washington that was very bipartisan. He was able to work with everyone," said Sheryl K. Sandberg '91, Summers' chief of staff at the Treasury Department...
...Republicans threw a celebratory party - complete with balloons and a playing of "Taxman" - before the bill was even passed, so they could get it on the evening news? Or was he merely hurt that George W. Bush, for all his talk, has still not deigned to make the words "bipartisan consensus" more than a campaign slogan...
...Even as the House prepared Thursday to bestow a party-line passage on George W. Bush's $900-odd billion marginal rate reductions, a major pocket of bipartisan opposition to the President's overall tax-cut plan reared its head in the Senate. A centrist clutch of five Republicans and six Democrats banded together Wednesday and demanded a trigger - a legislative clause that would halt tax cuts if the government ran out of surpluses - as the first condition of their support...
...skill and success cannot be merely attributed to his honeymoon. The speech was a genuine success on its own. In its substance, it was effective at displaying diplomacy and bipartisan spirit. Even barbed references to "the way we did things in recent years," and veiled insults at the Clinton style ("We didn't take a poll") went over like honey. In his delivery Bush was personal and poised, well-spoken and witty. He displayed remarkable timing and confidence. In short, he worked the room the way Clinton used to--maybe better because Congress actually likes him. Also, Bush arrived...