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What should Matheson, a Democrat, expect from the Bush White House? What courtesies are usually given? How should he work with cabinet agencies and political officials to publicize his priorities? Who sets the agenda, the President or the Congress...
Wexler, a Democrat, said she agreed. Representatives should expect change "incrementally, not monumentally...
Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and a Harvard Law School grad, wanted to know whether the House's narrow margin has persuaded the Republicans to allocate more seats on key committees to the Democrats. Hellmann didn't have the answer Schiff wanted. "We're trying to address this," he said. "It's a matter that we're working...
...appointment, of course, has been presumptive since the GOP convention, and Powell has been hovering at Bush's shoulder like a guardian angel for as long as Bush has been able to drop the hint. Powell is a minority Republican who talks like a Democrat, a national amalgam, a military man who could have been a unifying Ike but didn't like politics enough to run. He's a perfect combination of the the elder Bush's Gulf War and the younger's "compassionate conservatism," and he's just prickly enough with his adopted party to be believable...
...this cynicism is Bush's to shatter; he may yet prove himself capable of accomplishing what his father and Bill Clinton could not. But according to one staffer for a moderate House Democrat, Bush needs to move fast and recognize that any real push for cooperation can't be about lip service. "For the moment, anyway, everyone seems prepared to cooperate - and there will be, I think, a genuine effort to figure out what 'bipartisanship' really means," the staff member told TIME.com Friday. "From our standpoint, it's about both Republicans and Democrats being in the room when bills...