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...losses in the midterm elections, has been steadily increasing his backstage role in national politics. Nowhere was his presence more on display than in the Medicare-reform bill Congress passed last week. Beginning a year ago, Gingrich gave PowerPoint briefings to top Republican officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate majority leader Bill Frist on market reforms for Medicare. Late in October, Gingrich worked with AARP to circulate a compromise proposal on Capitol Hill, much like the one eventually passed, for Medicare to compete with private insurance plans in a test program. Gingrich...
Perhaps I will tap my foot some day, but first Joe needs to do better than than “Do it like you did in 2-0-0-0.” Popular vote aside, Dick Cheney sleeps in the vice president’s mansion these days. Maybe it wasn’t about hanging chads after all—maybe he just had a better songwriter...
...major Medicare reform," a presidential adviser says. The President, who never warmed to the independent-minded Lott, began his alliance with Frist during the 2000 campaign, when Bush tapped him to be a liaison to the Senate. Since then, Frist has cultivated the President too and hunted with Dick Cheney and top adviser Karl Rove. "He wants the President to like him," says a White House insider. "You can tell...
...stunning surprise to all but a small handful of top officials gathered in the huge hangar last night. The first whiff of something afoot rippled through the six invited journalists, as they watched a few colleagues - fresh from Waco - walk into the hangar through a back door. "It's Cheney," whispered one journalist, who recognized a White House photographer among them. "Not possible," was the quick answer from another...
...major Medicare reform," a presidential adviser says. The President, who never warmed to the independent-minded Lott, began his alliance with Frist during the 2000 campaign, when Bush tapped him to be a liaison to the Senate. Since then, Frist has cultivated the President too and hunted with Dick Cheney and top adviser Karl Rove. "He wants the President to like him," says a White House insider. "You can tell...