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With images still fresh of protesters massed on France's streets and faces painted with non in opposition to the youth job bill, could it be possible that reform is afoot in labor, health care, housing and anticrime policy? Although readers look forward to positive change, their hopes are tempered...
In fact, there's one obvious thing Congress and the President could do. But around Capitol Hill only a few lonely voices are willing to talk about it - most of them not for attribution. "You have to encourage people to conserve," says one Republican staffer.
Gasp. Tell Americans to drive less? Though a fractional reduction in driving across the country would dramatically reduce demand and prices, few things are more frightening to public officials, especially six months before an election, than telling Americans to conserve. Instantly, the image of Jimmy Carter in a cardigan on...
So for the moment, the only kind of "solutions" Americans are likely to see coming out of Washington are little more than political gestures. Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico, a Republican in a close House race this November, sponsored a bill increasing the punishment for price gouging by oil...
One thing Republicans on the Hill want to see more of from the White House is jawboning. "The Administration, especially the Energy department, needs to have a more aggressive information campaign," said Rep. Putnam. "They need to reassure the public. We need to have a barrage of administration officials out...