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...Congress has approved $320 billion for military spending over and above the regular Department of Defense budget, which itself has risen about 40% since 2001. But "oversight was lax," contends Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sits on the Armed Services Committee. As Pentagon officials head to Capitol Hill next week to start defending this year's $70 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan, there's new scrutiny of where all the cash is going...
...American officials will now work hard to sell the deal on Capitol Hill, where there?s been some skepticism from those who think it undermines nonproliferation treaties. Congress would have to amend two laws including a 52-year-old statute that prohibits sales of nuclear supplies to countries that do not agree to international standards. Singh must do a comparable sales job in India, where the nuclear program is a source of great national pride and any international inspection is regarded with wariness...
...some instances, White House officials have gone straight to Capitol Hill to squelch regulatory efforts. In June 2003 Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, introduced an amendment to mandate 100% inspection of airplane cargo. While airline passengers walk through metal detectors and have all their bags screened, the 6 billion pounds of cargo traveling beneath them each year is subject only to spot inspections by the feds. The government leaves it up to air carriers and the companies that forward freight to the carriers to screen their regular cargo customers...
...personal insult, a look at the electoral map offers another compelling reason some members might seize an opportunity to put distance between themselves and Bush. Nine of the 10 most endangered House incumbents this fall are Republicans, noted nonpartisan political analyst Stuart Rothenberg in a recent column for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Bush remains a big draw for the hard-core Republican faithful, but it was hard not to notice the absence of Ohio Senator Mike DeWine when the President arrived at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport last week to raise $1.1 million for DeWine at a private event...
White House officials, recognizing the likelihood that Republicans on Capitol Hill will go their own way, say they have designed an agenda that relies on Congress for very little in this election year. Instead, they say, the President will deploy his bully pulpit for such issues as overhauling the entitlement programs--Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid--that eat up half the budget and could balloon as baby boomers retire. By judiciously asserting his influence, Bush believes he can set "an agenda that our party and, one would hope, the country can unite behind," White House communications director Nicolle Wallace said...