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...what Bush now needs most is DeLay's ability to push legislation through the House. While most criticism of his foreign policy has been silenced, the President has faced much rougher sledding on domestic issues. The Senate has handed him a series of embarrassing setbacks: stalling judicial nominee Miguel Estrada, blocking Alaskan oil drilling and last week cutting Bush's proposed tax cut in half. Some Democrats are already balking at another Bush initiative: in addition to a request for $75 billion to pay for the war, the Administration is drafting ambitious postwar plans that include providing health care...
...teenage fans would appear as if by magic at subway stops where a rock musician was rumored to be headed.) "Texting," as this practice is known, spread like the Hong Kong flu, especially in the developing world. In the Philippines, the black-clad crowds that toppled President Joseph Estrada in 2001 were summoned into being with a now famous single line of coded text passed from phone to phone: "Go 2 EDSA [an acronym for a Manila street]. Wear blck." In Nigeria, the same technology was used to spark anti--Miss World riots that killed hundreds and drove the beauty...
Fried said he does not believe Estrada should have to reveal the information Democrats are demanding...
...need to, we will vote on cloture again and again,” Frist told the Associated Press. “Let me be clear: the majority will press for an up and down vote on this nominee until Miguel Estrada is confirmed...
...York State GOP Chair Alexander Treadwell has urged Estrada to run against Sen. Charles E. Schumer for a Senate seat in the 2003 election...