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...drilling, the union and the White House have worked like old shift mates. Environmentalists had convinced many lawmakers that rigs would damage the wilderness, but the White House credits the Teamsters with changing minds. When the issue came up for a vote a month ago, House Republican Whip Tom DeLay marveled at the Teamsters' approach, which included posting envoys by wavering members' offices as well as by the House floor. The vote passed. "They say, 'This is jobs for us and votes for you,'" says senior adviser Mary Matalin of the union pitch. "There's no tap dancing. They deliver...
...tone on such issues as Russia, North Korea and the Kyoto protocol on climate change. A diplomat meeting with her last spring complained that for the U.S. to drop Kyoto would set the fight against global warming back 10 years. Rice thought that was one more reason not to delay the treaty's inevitable end. And she told...
...Dream on, Mr. Byrd," House Majority Whip Tom DeLay tells me. House Republicans are resisting beginning conferences on any of the appropriations bills until they see all 13 that the Senate Democrats pass and how they've apportioned all the money. To get around being trapped in a defense-versus- Social Security box, Republicans are talking about across-the-board spending cuts...
...draft includes a number of thoughtful recommendations. They are sensible, and we are implementing some of them without delay,” Clay said in a press release...
...originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting the special effects right, but an early screening in January made it clear that reshoots wouldn't be a bad idea. Spoiler website Ain'tItCoolNews slammed the film for "lame action and almost no laughs." Wisecracks a la Dr. Doolittle and The Nutty Professor were "nowhere...