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...votes and won 59.7% of the seats. In the Senate, which is constitutionally gerrymandered in favor of the Republicans (two seats for Wyoming, two seats for New Jersey), Democrats got 52% of the votes and 55% of the seats up in 1988. In the Executive Branch, George Bush got 54% of the votes and all the seats...
...Presidents are always calling for bipartisanship, President Bush's favorite postelection mantra. But bipartisanship must mean more than Congress always giving in to the President's wishes. "The duty of an opposition," a hoary British political maxim has it, "is to oppose." When the opposition controls an equal branch of Government, opposition is a duty that can be pursued gaily and without remorse...
Among the recommendations is one extending the one-year ban that currently prohibits executive branch employees from lobbying their former office to members of Congress and to judges, said a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
Bush's proposal is expected to cover matters such as outside income, conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, enforcement and restrictions on what executive branch employees can do after they leave the government...
...addition to proposals that require congressional legislation, Bush will issue an executive order covering executive branch employees, the administration sources said...