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...rapid timetable is governed by political arithmetic: to lock in missile defense before Bush's first term ends. In fact, the President can just bulldoze ahead. Russia can cooperate and get something or sulk and get nothing. European objections don't count if Russia concedes. The Democrat-led Senate can't stop Bush from breaking the ABM treaty, though it can tighten the purse strings...
...McKay came forward to tell her story, lawmakers moved farther away from Condit. A fellow Blue Dog Democrat, Texas Representative Charles Stenholm, who sits beside Condit on the Agriculture Committee, issued a statement denouncing Condit. "Charlie's sick of seeing that clip on TV of him next to Condit," a fellow Blue Dog tells TIME. Indeed, the "Ag" committee has rarely been so packed with TV cameras going live - although the media horde trailing Condit somehow missed him leaving a late-night committee session last week to meet with the FBI and Washington police for a fourth interview. This time...
...first thing the Administration needs to be careful to do is to win the war over who lost the surplus. Democrats blame Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut. Without that money, they argue, Bush could be forced to raid sacrosanct Medicare and Social Security trust funds. "This new Administration inherited the largest budget surplus in our nation's history," complains John Spratt, senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "Yet after only five months, the record eight-year string of improving budgets is over...
...fixing, but it is far from being on the brink of financial collapse, argue critics of the commission. The panel's report tries "to convince younger Americans" that Social Security is "falling apart and that a radical solution is needed to fix it," says Congressman Robert Matsui, the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee's Social Security subcommittee. "Unfortunately, this commission's foregone solution of individual [retirement]accounts is the worst possible reform for Social Security...
...draft of a report commissioned by George W. Bush for August and leaked to the Times Tuesday - let it be known that fuel economy for automobiles and SUVs could be increased 8 to 11 miles per gallon using new technology without hindering safety, the head Republican and Democrat, respectively, on the House Energy and Commerce Committee got together Tuesday and compromised on a plan calling for a SUV/minivan increase...