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Matheson and other freshmen have their work cut out for them. Republicans hold a six-seat majority in the House, and the Senate is numerically deadlocked, with Vice President-elect Richard L. Cheney slated to be the tiebreaker. Veterans within the Republican Party are pushing for a change in the dynamics of leadership, hoping to balance the need for bipartisanship with the political desire for a conservative legislative agenda...
Kenneth Duberstein, a former chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, explained some political realities of current atmosphere in Washington. Duberstein said that President-elect George W. Bush would "go in steady" with Congress, ready to work with conservative and Southern Democrats to forge a working majority. This likely means a step-by-step process, he said...
...think President-elect Bush needs an early win to convince the American people," she said...
...Vice President-Elect Richard Cheney, who has more bypasses than the New Jersey Turnpike, seems to like to diet on the edge. Cheney attended the Wednesday lunch for moderate Republicans hosted by Sen. Arlen Specter in his Capitol hideaway. Spector and the other members of the "Mod Squad," as they're nicknamed - Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine, Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island - ordered salads and fruit. Cheney dug into a plate of fried chicken. Has anyone briefed him on cholesterol...
Louisiana Democratic Sen. John Breaux flew to Austin Friday and the first words out of his mouth during a lunch with George W. Bush were "I want to stay in the Senate" and not join the president elect's cabinet as energy secretary. But Breaux did use the lunch to make a plug for his Louisiana buddy, former Democratic Sen. Bennett Johnston, who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee before he retired in 1996. "I can't think of anybody better," Breaux told Bush. Johnston shares Bush's views on energy policy. "If you want to have...