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...McCain-Edwards bill is a consensus bill. It's supported by a majority of the House and a majority of the Senate. It's supported by over 600 health care and consumer groups across the country. This is a very strong bill and I think we'll see it pass and I think we'll see the President sign it into law. President Bush, during his campaign, said he supported a real patients' bill of rights. Our bill meets this standard and we're confident that the President will agree with us and sign the bill...
...Republicans, it has long been a goal to have every member of the former Warsaw Pact except Russia join NATO, and for Russia to become almost but not quite a member. The problem is that any alliance shrinks as its membership grows. It becomes less efficient because consensus is tougher to achieve, and certain goals are sacrificed to a lowest common denominator. But there's a certain victorious tinge to folding the Warsaw Pact into NATO. President Bush is in a good position to encourage those who want to join to come in, but whether this will actually happen...
...could also argue that Norwood?s defection is a result of the White House?s old approach, which involved strong-arming or intimidating lawmakers to get their way. But the White House has to be careful now - they face not only the reality of building consensus, but also the problematic (post-Jeffords) perception that they?ve been abandoned by members of their own team...
...suffocation of 58 Chinese being smuggled across the English Channel in a refrigerator truck last year added fuel to a debate about who should be entitled to enter and remain in the country. Is Britain a "soft touch"? Does it need more foreign workers, or fewer? There is no consensus. William Hague has made the temporary detention of asylum seekers a central plank of his campaign, responding to anxieties in some towns where asylum seekers are now housed. It opened him to charges of racism, but the stance is popular among his core voters...
...Contacted by e-mail in Beijing last week, Sachs says the Consensus Statement has had an "enormous" effect on policymakers across the world, in particular in the U.S. government...