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...theme of the event was one of bipartisan cooperation, as Kennedy told the nearly 1,000 members of the audience about increased cooperation in Washington on educational issues during Bush’s presidency...
...pass. He will push Congress to approve the package of corporate tax cuts and unemployment benefits that stalled late last year, and try to revive his controversial energy policy. Medicare reform, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors and a patients' bill of rights-leftovers from last year despite bipartisan support for each-will also find their way into the President's address, though election-year politics will probably keep them from going anywhere. And the biggest idea from Bush's campaign-privatizing Social Security-will have to wait as well. Although Karl Rove, Bush's political adviser, argues that Social...
Bush made careful, bipartisan moves in the immediate wake of Sept. 11. He brought a parade of lawmakers to the White House and then organized a weekly breakfast with the Democratic and Republican leadership. Everything seemed greased at first. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pulled Bush aside the day after the attacks and told him that he should come to Congress and ask for the authority and money to wage war. Bush's instinct might have been to circumvent Congress, but Hastert made the invitation too sweet to decline. "Lay out your vision," he said. "We're going to give...
Hope continues. On Oct. 10, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and a bipartisan group of Representatives sent a letter to President Bush calling for $1 billion in U.S. contributions to the Global AIDS and Health Fund. The last U.S. contribution was matched seven times over by other countries; if the same thing happens with this contribution, the world will have sufficient funds to mount a full effort to stop AIDS. To get the President’s support for this initiative, hundreds of members of Congress will have to sign the letter. Members of Congress will only sign this letter...
...left side of the aisle, you see, and is therefore blameless. In an especially trenchant bit of analysis, the editorial decided that the musical instruments amendment was an example of the GOP leadership catering to special interests. And there you have it: what looked like an honest bipartisan blunder was in fact nothing but the old Republican-musician racket rearing its ugly head once again...