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President-elect George W. Bush's cabinet nominees now await confirmation. Although some are qualified public servants, several others should receive close scrutiny by the Senate, and two should be rejected outright...
Even before he was declared President-elect, George W. Bush had become bear in chief. For weeks he's been warning that the U.S. economy is in for hard times. He may steer clear himself of the term recession. "Possible slowdown" is one way he puts it. But dirty work is what Vice Presidents are for. So Dick Cheney has been sent out to say the forbidden word. As early as Dec. 3, he was on Meet the Press warning that the nation "may well be on the front edge of a recession...
...down the filibuster his GOP colleagues would launch to kill it. Bagging Cochran "shook the earth" for GOP senators, says Nebraska Republican senator Chuck Hagel, who has written his own campaign finance legislation. "We're going to have to deal with campaign finance reform this year whether the President-elect likes...
Bill Clinton's last flourish on the Nuclear Test Ban treaty won't exactly set the cat among President-elect Bush's pigeons. But it may ultimately provoke some interesting discussions behind closed doors in the new administration. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General John Shalikashvili is due to report to President Clinton Friday on the findings of his investigation into whether the U.S. should ratify the treaty - and according to reports, the general will recommend, counter to last year's Senate vote, that ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is in the nation's best interests...
...Even if there may be sharply different views on the treaty within the new Bush administration, the President-elect is unlikely to revive the issue despite Shalikashvili's warning that failure to ratify the treaty squanders an opportunity to restrain nations such as China, India and Pakistan from upgrading their nuclear arsenals. If their position on missile defense is any indicator, it is clear that the geo-strategic outlook of the officials of the new Bush administration is less concerned with existing arms-control treaties than with building a high-tech nuclear umbrella to counter whatever threats may arise...