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...Well, I don't think there's any comparison at all. This basically is a meeting, series of meetings of a committee made up of the cabinet and the senior administration officials. As we go, we're allowed to get together and make policy. That's what we get paid to do. But there are no outside groups in the meetings that we have when we meet as the energy task force. There have been meetings with outsiders by various individual members of the task force and by staff, and they've met with a broad range of folks from...
...everything we're doing is totally consistent with the way government is supposed to operate. We have meetings with cabinet committees all the time and senior officials on all kinds of policies that are not open in the sense that we don't have outsiders present and the press isn't there. But this is all preparatory to decisions that the president can make. And then once a decision's been made and an administration policy developed, then it's announced and becomes public. Nothing any different about how we're proceeding here with respect to the energy task force...
...Well, we've moved in a staff that is headed by a man named Andrew Lundquist, who works for me, who's the director of the operation. I've got a small staff assigned to it, and the various cabinet members and agency heads that are involved all contribute staff as well too. They're working putting together a report. We've given the president a preliminary sort of interim report. We'll come to him eventually with a polished report that will be made public, that will lay out the case in terms of why we think there...
...shot, the calcified, self-preservationist LDP elders will not be as eager to watch him engineer their downfall. Koizumi, who likes to talk about changing Japanese elections to bypass the LDP machinery, started incurring factional wrath on his first day in office Friday with his old-guard-snubbing cabinet selections...
...Japan's next prime minister after shaking up the creaky but formidable Liberal Democratic party machinery with what in Japan passes for a populist revolt. The 59-year-old with tousled hair and a fondness for rock music promises to revamp the LDP, pack his cabinet with fresh faces, force some bitter medicine on Japan's ailing banks and - if necessary - send Japan into recessionary shock in order to save...